Guild Wars 2

Where: sPvP, Heart of the mists.

What: Equipping a kit on the engineer GREATLY reduces the stats on the character.

How:

By equipping a kit, I have noticed the Attack stat going down by a good amount. Equipping a kit, ie: grenade kit, toolkit, etc. automatically unequips your weapons.

In the case I have analyzed, my Attack stat was exactly 3090 with a weapon equipped. Once I equip the grenade kit, it goes down to 2854. This is a 7.8% attack reduction right there for simply equipping the kit. The other problem is the sigils equipped are automatically discarded. Let’s say I am using two pistols, one with +5% damage and one with +5% crit chance, both of these stats are automatically discarded when equipping the kit. In this case, it is a loss of 7.8% on the attack stat, 5% extra damage and 5% crit. The weapon damage from simply equipping a kit goes down by 20%.

I would really appreciate if someone could explain to me why there is such a huge damage reduction for simply equipping a kit, when in fact it really seems that the damage on kit abilities is not really scaled up to the level of the weapon skills.

I strongly believe that this is not intended and devs have forgotten about that. It puts engineers quite a level below other classes simply by discarding sigils while using a kit and makes it even worse with the direct damage output nerf from simply equipping it on the weapon damage.

There are a few topics about this; it seems to be a fairly large concern.

As you mentioned, kits do have a base damage, although they do not scale with weapons (and won’t add stacks to any equipped sigil) because when you equip a kit, it unequips your weapon.

Simplest solution would be for Anet to simply have damage, stats, and sigils apply to any kit you swap to.

Yeah this has been an extremely heavily discussed topic since BWE 1. There are more then one topic on it on the front page of the forums here.

See the stickied discussion at the top of the page in bright red marked engineer bugs, for example.

This post was also to present valid points backed by exact numbers, I had not seen other posts presenting it like I did so I thought it would be a good idea to post.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/Kits-do-NOT-scale-with-weapons/first#post121926

This one is fairly congruent with your discussion, perhaps it will help you.