Guild Wars 2

Whenever I ask in map chat if I should go engineer or ranger for pvp….it is always unanimously ranger. Their explanation is always “go ranger…..because rangers pets are mobile and engineers turrets are not….and pets scale with level unlike turrets that do not scale after a certain level.”

Anyway…instead of asking again in map chat I decided to come straight to the source and see what you guys thought about the engineer in comparison to the ranger in PvP. Which do you think is better and more for for 1v1 PvP?

Don’t know who tossed that misinformation at you, but turrets scale with your level yes.

We simply do not have a trait line as rangers do, that adds stats like the rangers empathy line does.

One thing I will say, is that due to the fact that turrets are immobile, the longer recast on some of them is a pain.

All of that being said, the turrets have some very good traits that add to their range, give them a self heal tic, add to their damage, lower the damage they take, and make their placement ground target-able.

Turrets don’t scale with stats, they scale with level.

So a level 80 with masterwork level 80 gear, will have the same turrets as someone with full exotic gear.

And in general… turrets aren’t too great. Damage is poor on the rifle turret, thumper turret and flame turret. And rocket turret has a cooldown that is just terribly long.

The only worthwhile turrets are net turret, and healing turret. Which is, conveniently, the two turrets that don’t need any traits to be very effective.

I’d LIKE to be able to use my turrets as aggro magnets in normal PvE, akin to a Ranger’s bear, so I could plink on the mobs with my FT or elixir gun. Sadly, the long recast timer on them makes this nigh impossible.

Its weird that its 2012 and games are still making pets NOT scale with the character’s gear.

Turrets actually do scale with gear, they however do not scale with the damage of weapons, but do with the +Power, +Precision, and +Healing you have from gear. I am unsure if this is the case with +Toughness and +Vitality as well as I am unable to see my turret’s HP.

A correction, the +Power doesn’t seem to do much anymore (it did however at lower levels) now it is just +Condition Damage/Healing instead that affects turrets. I will have to test this will other builds as well to see if there is any change on the affect (The Rifled Turret Barrels doesn’t change the tooltip damage as well for example).

If the pets are what is attracting you, go ranger for sure.
Using turrets gives you an extremely inflexible, weak built that isn’t fun to play for most people and doesn’t really work in a lot of pvp and dungeon scenarios (e.g. turrets being one shot by boss aoes and siege engines). Engineer’s current strengths at the moment are more along the lines of explosives and guns rather than pets.

turrets are nice dmg, but mostly they die in 2-3 hits max :S 1 area and.. cya