Engineer elites are seriously stupid, especially the mortar. Elixir X is fun for leveling, but it is pathetically useless at 80. The only decent elite is supply crate, and that skill is only useful for PvP for the stun and health packs, turrets are also useful in PvP. But in PvE, the turrets die in 2 seconds, and stuns are not that important, unless the mob is channelling a powerful attack.
Come on arena net, have you even looked at engineer’s elites? There are utilities from other classes that are 10 times better than engineer elites.
My solution: replace the stupid mortar with an actual useful elite that could seriously help out in dungeons. I’m a glass cannon rifle crit engi, so I’d prefer something like a bazooka which deals massive damage that has a 3 second channelling attack as the auto which is also ground targeted, range would be around 1000, radius would be a little bit smaller than the supply crate. The bazooka would obviously be a bundle which would have a 30s-60s duration. Since it is a bundle, it should also have skills 2,3,4,5, too, and I’d prefer having skill 5 to be like the charrzooka barrage. The other skills would probably be CC skills.
What I was also considering was to have the bazooka as a weapon kit, and it would have no cool down upon using it, although its attacks would have really long cool downs, maybe skill #2 has a 30 second cool down, the barrage would have a 120s cool down. Toolkit and utilities would still be available when the bazooka is equipped
Please make it happen arena net, I love my engineer too much to change my main
I don’t even care if it is a bazooka or not, please just make one of them useful for PvE.
Maybe something similar to the battle standard. I’m craving for fury
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