Guild Wars 2

I had a funny idea for WvW or maybe sPvP that I thought I’d post about here. I don’t see it as being very likely to happen just because there’s so few engineers around, but hey it might make for some fun if it did!

Anyways, I was thinking that if you could get like 5-10 engineers working together in WvW, and had all of them lay both a minefield and mines in a choke point, do you think it would be a good deterrent to an attack? I’ve noticed that the mines don’t do that much on their own, partly because it’s so hard to get them to go off and hit people properly, but I think that if a few engineers used them en mass they’d be a pretty viable defense! Plus I don’t think most people take mines that seriously and will just run through them regardless, even if it ends up killing them. So what do you think, would this be a good method or strategy to wipe out a few players? Or would the attackers just brush the mines off like flies? I’ve only ever used them in PvE so I don’t know how damaging they are on players…in PvE the damage seems pretty decent when all minefield mines hit the same target.

That sounds like a great idea. We have an all engineer guild on FA [NERF], hopefully we can try it!

You could lay down the mines behind a door, then before they charge in, get some might stacking going for a death field instead, good damage and massive boon removal(each mine removes a boon, its actually the best boon removal in game).

Could be pretty neat. There’d also be a massive stripping of boons, and with Throw Mine mines scattered throughout, it’d cause a touch of disarray.

Im jealous. Im in Db without a guild and here my wvw nemisis from FA Posts a comment in thr engineer forums that they have an all engineer guild. Well done FA.

Neat idea. But don’t do it because ANet will nerf mines if you do.

In WvW I like to pop an elixer S and run into the zerg dropping as many bombs/grenades as possible then run away. Not quite the same thing but also very fun. A group of engines doing that within the main zerg would be hilarious too.

Zonzai.2341:

Neat idea. But don’t do it because ANet will nerf mines if you do.

In WvW I like to pop an elixer S and run into the zerg dropping as many bombs/grenades as possible then run away. Not quite the same thing but also very fun. A group of engines doing that within the main zerg would be hilarious too.

Lol I love to do that too, I like to drop big ol’ bomb and grenade barrage as soon as I become vulnerable, then just run in circles bombing people until I die. It works even better if you use Elixir U, although sometimes you get the one that increases damage taken and you die really fast.

Neat idea in theory. 5-person AoE cap completely kills it when put to the test.

i was thinking it would be cooler dropping not just mines but supply crates and some turrets

Yeah whenever more guildies from [NERF] are on it might be fun to do

However as a consolation screenshot (because the mine thing hasn’t been attempted yet) here is four of us dropping big ol bomb simultaneously.

Penguin.5197:

Yeah whenever more guildies from [NERF] are on it might be fun to do

However as a consolation screenshot (because the mine thing hasn’t been attempted yet) here is four of us dropping big ol bomb simultaneously.

any requirements to join that guild?

Im in yaks bend right now.

if we had an all engineer guild called [nerf] i would join that in a heart beat

I’m not gonna try and make this into a recruit thread or the mods will get mad again lol but heres the link for guild ad
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/guilds/guilds/Recruiting-for-new-Engineer-themed-guild/first#post1243917

Ok ill stay on topic after this ^^

OK that’s it. I’m loading up mines tonight.

Goldmember.4368:

Im jealous. Im in Db without a guild and here my wvw nemisis from FA Posts a comment in thr engineer forums that they have an all engineer guild. Well done FA.

Are you by chance Asura? (See Penguin’s forum post for more guild info)

Rezzet.3614:

Penguin.5197:

Yeah whenever more guildies from [NERF] are on it might be fun to do

However as a consolation screenshot (because the mine thing hasn’t been attempted yet) here is four of us dropping big ol bomb simultaneously.

any requirements to join that guild?

Have to be an Engineer.

(And slightly crazy)

^Yeah, be prepared to do something very nonsensicle, like coordinating elixer x pops together and wade into zergs as a legion of tornadoes and giants.

Lord Aargadon.4135:

^Yeah, be prepared to do something very nonsensicle, like coordinating elixer x pops together and wade into zergs as a legion of tornadoes and giants.

i do that pretty often lol .

Dirty dirty mines. They actually disappear after a short time of being deployed and they actually trigger a cooldown afterwards despite disappearing from the timeout. You’d have to be there to keep an eye on them and maintain them all conspicuous-like.

And then if someone’s wise to the mines they might charge in with a shield, although honestly the chance of someone being that smart and also having a shield is pretty low.

The mines wouldn’t kill anybody though. The zerg would keep throwing bodies at them until they were all gone.

The little mines wouldn’t help at all. Everyone can see them and they last an even shorter amount of time. As soon as you get somewhere safe to watch your mines at work, they’re probably already gone. You might annoy them to insanity with all the ticking though.

Yeah, Throw Mine is a depressingly bad skill. Still I’d LOVE to see footage of a minefield vexing some dumb scrubs.