Guild Wars 2

Having gone through 1-80 on Necromancer and Warrior, I am seeing some very agitating fluctuations in my Engineer’s combat strength.

Using the same build and gear style, against equalish(above, equal and below) level mobs, many of my abilities occasionally do half tool tip damage. Sadly that is with a rather steady amount of crits for multiple hit abilities and one hit abilities.

I’ve notice slight fluctuations for small level ranges, say 47-50 as an example. My combat effectiveness and survivability dropped sharply, while in level appropriate gear and with the same trait configuration. It has leveled back out to some degree over 50.

There were periods where it would happen on my other characters but, no where near as often or sharp as it is on my engineer.

Is there a cause for this or is it just part of the basic class level scaling? Are we more gear dependent or trait dependent?

It concerns me because there is a built in difficulty curve for everyone but, if slight variations cause this much of a shift on the low end of the curve more so for Engineer than other professions I have played, the high end of the curve is going to be very frustrating.

Could it be fluctuations as you leve and your gear expires?

I’ve noticed that my Necromancer can easily keep gear for 10 levels and carve a bloody swath across the map. After being unable to ever do that with Engineer (I’ve never had anything but a terrible experience with engineer pve), it was quite a shock.

I upgrade gear at five level intervals on Engineer since I have the funding but, it is a possible contributor.

I have had the issue persist after going to the Tp and upgrading. The degree is naturally smaller though.

It’s not going to stop me from leveling Engineer unless it gets more severe. It is just an annoyance that I wasn’t prepared for.