Is turret engi viable or just bots using it?
Nobody is using turrets. They’re are one step away from being absolutely worthless trash; if somebody takes a turret in their build, it is either for the AoE reflection or the toolbelt.
Or it’s heal turret. All hail heal turret.
Nobody is using turrets. They’re are one step away from being absolutely worthless trash; if somebody takes a turret in their build, it is either for the AoE reflection or the toolbelt.
Or it’s heal turret. All hail heal turret.
Then I’m seeing a buttload of engi bots tonight.
Be careful with calling out bots.
the following could have happened:
matchmaking bugged out and placed you together with newb players. Seen many who are prefering turrets in open world pve. Not unlikely that they transfer this into their first couple of spvp matches…
Stupidity doesn’t necessitate malice.
Engineer is love, Engineer is life.
Nobody is using turrets. They’re are one step away from being absolutely worthless trash; if somebody takes a turret in their build, it is either for the AoE reflection or the toolbelt.
Or it’s heal turret. All hail heal turret.
Then I’m seeing a buttload of engi bots tonight.
Eh.. not necessarily.
Possibly just inexperienced or not aware that turrets are junk. Or they want to buck the trend (Read: Meta) and use them anyway. More power to them for it. I’m still running around with a Static Discharge build from four years ago.
As the other chap in the thread said, though; if they’re playing anything competitively, they’ll figure it out either through frustration (“WHY DO I KEEP LOSING!?”) or they’ll be informed (“lol turret engineer lets kick from group”).
Or maybe if they continue using turrets in spite of them sucking, anet will see enough uproar to possibly consider buffing the kitten things?
What gets more attention drawn to get something fixed? Never using it, or being such a useless mess that even the other professions start crying to anet because of the useless engineers on their team?
Or maybe if they continue using turrets in spite of them sucking, anet will see enough uproar to possibly consider buffing the kitten things?
What gets more attention drawn to get something fixed? Never using it, or being such a useless mess that even the other professions start crying to anet because of the useless engineers on their team?
Never using it.
I’ve been seeing a lot of turret engineers lately in spvp and it dawned on me that with the current state of botting in spvp that this would be the most logical build to use if scripts are running a character.
I’ve never played engi before and have no idea what’s popular other than the builds that are on metabattle.com, so I ask…is turret engi back or is this a red flag for bots?
Turrets are absolutely awful:
• Nerfed to be no longer immune to conditions or crits without any other compensation (hp, skill effects, CD reduction to summon, etc etc)
• A nerf to turret engie was needed (i.e. knockback from trait, removal of sustain stat amulets) but not necessarily to turrets themselves
• Turrets also nerfed to ensure that the mobile turrets, aka gyros, would be superior in every way when HoT was introduced
• The ‘flip over skill to detonate’ is a nerf on most of the turrets, the exception being healing turret because it is often instantly detonated after summon to blast finish the water field it creates, because even if you place it so and it survives long that it could have been overcharged again, it now cannot (i.e. only uses the overcharge on summon)
Turrets are absolute and complete garbage for utility slots, however I don’t know that I’d assume that its automatically bots that are using them. With PoF on the horizon its quite likely that newer players have joined the game and may be dabbling with them to try them out.