Guild Wars 2

I noticed that any class can use the flamethrower! There is a merchant that sells them as an environmental weapon, and they do practically the same damage as the engineer flamethrower lol. There is a guardian in my guild who was using it to do a dungeon with me earlier, just to make me feel bad! But really, what’s the point in having a kit if you can just buy and use it on any character?

Is that the flamethrower that has the jump-shot that’s better than our rifle jump-shot?

Who sells this flamethrower? And now I’m kind of curious if our other kits are being sold by other merchants.

Penguin.5197:

Who sells this flamethrower? And now I’m kind of curious if our other kits are being sold by other merchants.

Not sure about being sold, I know their are Rifles in the game with better range and similar abilities I have stumbled across for events and such.

It’s the same with the med kits, In the area COF is in there is a charr that sells the med kits for karma i bought like 30 on my guardian (charr).

I can’t recall who exactly sells it, I’ll have to ask my friend when he logs back in. I stocked up on a couple a while back, they have slightly less direct damage on the first/second skill, but they have higher burning damage on all skills. Other than that, they are identical to our flamethrower.

I think there is one for the Charzooka as well, haven’t seen one for the ele though.

So basically there are environmental weapons that clearly resemble our kits but are better than our kits or function as intended, aye? For all classes… EVEN FOR THE KING OF VERSATILITY (without the cost of it of course)?!
Infuriating.

Oh god, yeah, i met this Heart Quest giver that gave you a Grenade Kit that was exactly like ours, but did better damage for some reason compared to the Engy Grenade Kit, what’s up with that?

I actually used that while leveling in fireheart rise instead of the actual grenade kit. real talk. It lasts for quite a while, and even goes with you through waypoints in that zone if I remember correctly.

UserNameDeluxe.4693:

I actually used that while leveling in fireheart rise instead of the actual grenade kit. real talk. It lasts for quite a while, and even goes with you through waypoints in that zone if I remember correctly.

This is why I pretty much stopped playing my Engi in PvE.

Now my warrior has an actual rifle AND grenades. What’s the point of Engi again?

Phuriocity.9218:

This is why I pretty much stopped playing my Engi in PvE.

Now my warrior has an actual rifle AND grenades. What’s the point of Engi again?

That’s why I made this post. I feel like if you’re going to make a class that is largely defined by the kits he uses…and then provide all classes access to those very same kits, well what’s the point then other than the traits and a utility skill or two? I love my engineer but I cringe inside when I see other classes using engineer kits like that (not that many do, but that’s for other reasons I’d rather not get into here lol).

But what would be the fun without the bugs? All those other classes are boring. Their skills work.

Wow, you guy’s never stop amaze me! It’s amazing what you can find worth whining over! To think A-net would dare to create these sort of weapon kit’s that can be used in very limited area’s and your stuck on using cause you can swap!
Bring the forks and torches everyone! Gather the townsfolk! We must storm A-net and burn the heretic employees in our righteous flames for this evil deeds!
Come on guy’s, get serious! Use your energy on something worthwhile!

Amadeus.5687:

Wow, you guy’s never stop amaze me! It’s amazing what you can find worth whining over! To think A-net would dare to create these sort of weapon kit’s that can be used in very limited area’s and your stuck on using cause you can swap!
Bring the forks and torches everyone! Gather the townsfolk! We must storm A-net and burn the heretic employees in our righteous flames for this evil deeds!
Come on guy’s, get serious! Use your energy on something worthwhile!

LIKE NERFING THE HERETIC ENGINEERS TO OBLIVION.

Engineers are not supposed to be viable. They’re supposed to be fun.

Giving the Engineer’s skills to other classes allows them to be fun while also remaining viable.

Amadeus.5687:

Wow, you guy’s never stop amaze me! It’s amazing what you can find worth whining over! To think A-net would dare to create these sort of weapon kit’s that can be used in very limited area’s and your stuck on using cause you can swap!
Bring the forks and torches everyone! Gather the townsfolk! We must storm A-net and burn the heretic employees in our righteous flames for this evil deeds!
Come on guy’s, get serious! Use your energy on something worthwhile!

You can actually use them in any area you want, and swap in/out of the kits during combat just like on an engineer (you buy them from npc and just double-click whenever you want to switch to the kit). I’m not so much whining, but more questioning the true purpose of some of the kits since you can buy them from the npc at a pretty low cost. I’m actually thinking of incorporating the flamethrower item into a build so that I won’t have to use a utility skill slot for the actual kit (haven’t tested if it gets the benefits from traits though).

Absolutionis.9427:

Engineers are not supposed to be viable. They’re supposed to be fun.

Giving the Engineer’s skills to other classes allows them to be fun while also remaining viable.

And that’s where the skies get darker for an engineer. It feels as if our signatures are being stolen and improved upon without receiving such benefits on ours (save for buying them yourself).

It’s those kits that set us apart. Probably the only thing left (turrets are meh and elixirs are troll), and it’s being mass produced for all others to copy. Which is sad, if I haven’t made that clear, a direct contrast to the claim that “Engineers are supposed to be fun”.