Guild Wars 2

Haha. Seem like i put some fuel on the fire with this thread. We all should just look in PvP right now. dont you remember in few days before the patch there was a bunch of engineer playing , trying all kind of build and most of the time you would lose the match because you was in the team that had the most engineer??? Well… that was before the patch because right now there is almost no engineer still playing PvP.

Nerf the Ele they said
Neft the Thief they said
Neft the Ranger they said
Nerf the Mesmer they said

Just rename the class to Nerfgineer . Atleast this way it will be abundantly clear what the role of this class is in this game…make others look good.

The Gates Assassin.9827:

Jump while kit swapping. OMG. I really can’t stand how many people are constantly saying that this build is dead. It’s so far from dead, it’s insane. Tool Kit got buffed. If you jump while kit swapping (with kit refinement) it doesn’t waste or use the spell. USE IT.

Jesus people. Come on.

I think some other threads mentioned that still incurs that cooldown even if it doesn’t trigger the effect from the kit.

Kardiamond.6952:

Incendiary Powder -> 2 second burn on critical hti from any attack.
Hell with condition duration and precision, you can have perma burn on a single target. That’s like 500 more dps not affected by armor.

Invigorating Speed -> Vigor on swiftness.
With speedy kit, it’s perma swiftness. In sPvP this one of the best buff you can have.

Static Discharge -> bolt on toolbelt
Add 800-2000 damage on each toolbelt use.

Speedy kit -> perma swiftness
I would take speedy kit over kit refinement anytime.

Others class?

Ranger
Zephyr’s Speed You and your pet gain 2 seconds of quickness when you swap pets.
5 points, on demand quickness. The strongest effect in game.

You forgot: Elemental Attunement, Soothing Disruption, Zephir’s Boon, Justice is Blind, Inspired Virtue, and Thrill of the Crime. That doesn’t even include traits that are focused, but extremely defining like mug and purity.

Recursivision.2367:

I’m not saying it’s the best trait in the game. In the end, what I’m saying is it was a powerful trait, it still is. Only builds that relied on it actively are affected by this change. It has not hurt the viability of the engineer on the whole. And the builds that did rely on it are still viable although will require some adjusting.

You missed the point. It didn’t hurt the viability of the class, but it didn’t help it either. So… what was the point of the change? I’m of the opinion that nerfs should be handed out lightly, because are ALWAYS going to be received poorly even when deserved (just look at the reaction to the food nerf). So… what was broken about this trait that made it need changing? Otherwise, a change such as this angers people for no reason and makes the devs look unfocused and arbitrary.

This isn’t the end of the class. That doesn’t keep this from being a ridiculous change though…

There’s a big difference between having 2 condition cleanses on demand, versus 3, especially when the next one is 10 seconds apart. If you’re set on fire, bleeding, and poisoned, and Elixir C is on cooldown, 10 seconds is an awfully long time. It’s also not practical to have them spaced out like that, either.

In extended fights, because of global cooldowns, we actually lose out on a KR proc every 20 seconds, due to the global cooldown, which is pretty big.

It used to be:

CF/EG, CF, CF/EG, CF, 6 cleanses over 40 seconds.

Now,
EG, CF, EG, CF. 4 cleanses over 40.

100nades was never that effective for 90% of the people trying to run it anyways. I’d personally suggest giving Ostricheggs might stacking condi spec a shot. I’m currently running that and it’s much better than 100nades imho.