I really like the Kit Refinement trait, the new one.
The old one was cool, but broken as heck.
I like it because it symbolizes what I like about the Engineer the most, and that is variation. Getting different effects on different kits makes me want to jump back and forth with my kits rather then just stick with one, to the exclusion of all others.
(Mind you, magnetic and fire aura are just lame, I’d rather have something unique then something pirated from the Elementalists.)
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The Engineer was the first profession I leveled to 80, and while I loved the earlier levels, I ran into more then one problem with the profession by the time I got to level 80.
One of the problems is kit skins, besides being ugly as sin, you can’t ever change them.
(This is being discussed in another thread, and Colin Johanson has already stated they are working on that problem.)
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The other is that I found where at early levels the profession excelled because you could mix and match, and jump between kits and turrets, utility skills and weapons, when and as you needed to, which in turn gave the Engineer a great deal of variation and made it extremely fun to play.
It’s almost enough for me to want to re-roll just to do it all over again.
However, as you level and gained traits, because of how they are designed, like every other professions are, you tend to specialize in one or two things, to the exclusion of everything else. And because each kit in itself is fairly repetitive, this lead to the gameplay as a whole to become very repetitive and dull.
(This isn’t as much of a problem in other professions, because a lot of their weapons are duel purposed. This isn’t really the case with Engineer kits.)
I don’t feel like I can swap out my utilities on the fly, because I am weaker for it.
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What I’d like to see going forward, since Arenanet are fixing up traits that aren’t very good, is to make more traits that are more generally applicable rather then highly specialized, across all trait lines and tiers.
Esp Grandmaster traits, as almost every single one of them is highly specialized.
I really just want to be able to go jack-of-all-trades, and use kits and turrets and my weapons, and just go back and forth as I see fit, and not necessarily have to invest in every single trait line, or refund my traits every time I want to try something a little bit different.
So, basically more traits like Kit Refinement. Plz and TY.