Guild Wars 2

I really struggled to get into the game. It’s not that the world isn’t interesting, or the gameplay is poorly designed, but I just wasn’t feeling it. That is, until I tried engineer. The idea of kits has completely changed my outlook on this game, and I haven’t had this much fun with a game in a long time. Having the ability to change your playstyle on the fly to adapt is so refreshing. It isn’t like changing weapons to gain a couple new abilities, it’s like changing the whole profession mechanic. It’s a PVP dream, and super fun in PVE as well. I just can’t say enough about how fun it is.

Anyway, I wanted to share my 2 cents, from someone who didn’t find other professions enjoyable.

I love the Engi as well. From the skills, to the playstyle, to the very concept of Engi. Just awesome.

It really is a breath of fresh air, agree 100%. It’s so different it feels like a whole new gaming experience. I’ve never played a character in any game that was as versatile.

I agree !
My fav part of Engi is the whole concept aswell,,, though i would like to see some damage improvments with pistol and rifle

Exactly. Such a great class.

I know I did not tell you ahead of time but….

See! Told ya!

I absolutely love engineer. I am so glad I went with my gut and tried it that first beta weekend. I have been hooked ever since.

Engineer is credit to team!

Pve there fine, PvP not so much

At least engineer will only get better with bug fixes.

We all go through this. Play it a few weeks. I found once the novelty of the class wears off, you’re left with just that. Novelty for the sake of novelty. It’s enough for some folks that really enjoy flavor classes, but in the end, in its current state, it’s just not for me I guess.

I think you are generalizing a bit too much from your own experience, Brick. I’m having good experiences in PVE and WvWvW PVP with my Engineer.

So looking at my combat log in WvW, shows im hitting for 300 to 600 for a hip shot, then I get hit for 2200, 2000,1500

That’s due to the difference in gear and stats. At 80 you will hit jut as hard ~2k

And grenades wreck.

Well im 72 with a epic rifle and not bad gear. Just going to delete him, the lack of damage is amazing

^ill lmao if they buff the engi right after you delete him xDDD

I don’t know how you’re doing such pitiful damage. I’m in full exotics, and often hit for over 2k on targets that don’t have great gear, and definitely over 1.5k hipshot on other targets.

Engineer isn’t bad. It’s just missing viable build options due to skills that don’t work or are useless.

Agreed, my hip shot consistently hits for 1500+. Try a +crit damage set of gear and stack precision and power with the critdamageand you can put out some beefy damage.

I agree with the OP. I love my engineer and the array of kits to change up my gameplay on the fly. I’ve saved many a “protect and escort the NPC” event by swapping to medkit partway in and heal up the NPC and cure its conditions, between waves.

The deal was sealed for me as soon as i unlocked the bomb kit and started running around in circles blowing up groups of PvE mobs and hardly getting hurt at all. (laughing maniacally all the while) A friend of mine who plays said i was OP when he saw me run up to a veteran mob plus 2 or 3 escort mobs and just stand in the middle of them using the #1 bomb skill repeatedly and maybe tossing in a #2 if it was getting close, and flatten the whole bunch, no problem. Just standing there with no kiting.

Not to mention the fun of flamethrower.(in groups, when you don’t have aggro)
And later with the grenadier trait turning the grenade-Engineer into an aoe-DPS+Vulnerability beast.

Much love for this unique-feeling class.

People really need to start differentiating between HIT and CRIT. If you rock a full glass cannon build and stack power, crit, crit damage your rifle can start hitting for 6-700 and critting for 1500 with 60-70% crit which is nothing special at all compared to most classes. Do not be surprised when thieves and warriors start consistently critting you for 2-3k when you step into spvp. A warrior crit me for 5k with kill shot yesterday, which is nearly a quarter of my health without alchemy.

On my mesmer, I got crit for 6.5k by a Blunderbuss, so far that’s the hardest any class has hit me for (in one hit) in WvW.

I’m loving my engineer as well. I struggled to get into playing him at first but once I saw the 1 skill underwater was a torpedo I was hooked. I silly I know but as a former submariner I thought it was really cool.

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On my mesmer, I got crit for 6.5k by a Blunderbuss, so far that’s the hardest any class has hit me for (in one hit) in WvW.

With analyze, elixir B and jump shot’s vulnerability up the actual blunderbuss ability crits light armour for ~3-3.3k damage, with another 1k or so as bleed damage. So that engineer must have had some pretty impressive boons to crit your for 6.5k in one hit.

I’m starting to dig the elixers. Get stuff like 10 stacks of might + my 25 blood lust + 1% damage per boon.

Flamethrower is win =) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9DkciMTsLI