Guild Wars 2

It’s a rifle!
There’s a scope!
Use it.

Never seen anyone shoots a rifle without looking through the scope.
I re-rolled my norn engineer ‘cause of this and found out that asuran
does the same too. I don’t know abt the rest of the class but I think
goes the same for humans as well.

For engineers, it’s more of a shotgun than a “rifle” in the literal sense of a sniper rifle.

If you want a sniper rifle, play Warrior. :p

oh lol, yeah i got a warrior.
I like how my warrior shoots the rifle.
Wanted my engineer to do the same.
I got him the same rifle as my warrior; ‘Charzooka’ but seeing him
shooting it like that makes me go dot dot dot

That’s it!
Sticking with 2 handguns instead.

Stalvros.9217:

oh lol, yeah i got a warrior.
I like how my warrior shoots the rifle.
Wanted my engineer to do the same.
I got him the same rifle as my warrior; ‘Charzooka’ but seeing him
shooting it like that makes me go dot dot dot

That’s it!
Sticking with 2 handguns instead.

The way the Engineer shoots it seems to make more sense than how the Warrior shoots it. If it was real life, the Warrior would have massive recoil. The Engineer wouldn’t recoil too much due to the more stable stance that s/he takes when shooting it.

That being said, our arms would also probably get blown right off, too.

Hip Shot is pretty self-explanatory as to why you don’t aim, Blunderbuss and Overcharged Shot are more point-blank type attacks hence no real need for aiming, and Jump Shot has you firing down at your feet.

The only real one I can maybe imagine for aiming is Net Shot, and even that is a stretch as a net is fired in a general direction, not a pint-point precision attack.

Like Yobculture said, think of it like a shotgun, makes much more sense that way.

Can you even imagine how badly an engineer would clobber themselves in the face if they tried to scope-aim their Overcharged Shot? Good god.

DaMunky.6302:

Can you even imagine how badly an engineer would clobber themselves in the face if they tried to scope-aim their Overcharged Shot? Good god.

I laughed but anyways if they only fixed the animation for hip shot when using scope greater than a set distance. If the animation doesn’t go through today wih patch changes I doubt we’ll get one anytime soon

Personally I’d like to see the shells smoke as they fly from my rifle followed by a reload sound effects on some of the abilities. it would be cool if at least when using specific weapon skills like Static Shot it would discharge a empty electrified casing from your pistol Regardless of what the guns skin resembles.. Some are front loaded some are not.. It would simply be a quality of life change.

On that note, it sure would be nice if Engineers finally got a pure group of Shotgun skins. I mean like.. Hard core shot guns. Like a double barrel or combat shot gun.

As for the animation… I could see the trait Scope letting you aim down your rifle when at the optimum range for the trait to be in effect.

Leave it alone, I don’t want to be a Warrior on my Engi. I have a Warrior for that.

I prefer hipshot being shot from the hip :P

Blunderbuss:

The blunderbuss is a muzzle-loading firearm with a short, large caliber barrel, which is flared at the muzzle and frequently throughout the entire bore, and used with shot and other projectiles of relevant quantity and/or caliber. The blunderbuss could be considered to be an early form of shotgun or muzzleloader, which was often adapted to military and defensive use. It was effective at short ranges, but lacked accuracy for targets at long range.

^ And blunderbuss that had a rifle stock were shot from the hip because the backflare would have burned the face of anyone firing it from the shoulder.

Hmm, i guess in that case I have to get a non-rifle gun for engi then.
Too bad anet bundle rifle/shotgun under 1 category.
In that case, make 2 categories? Shotgun and Rifles?
(Similar to daggers and 1h-sword)

Stalvros.9217:

Hmm, i guess in that case I have to get a non-rifle gun for engi then.
Too bad anet bundle rifle/shotgun under 1 category.
In that case, make 2 categories? Shotgun and Rifles?
(Similar to daggers and 1h-sword)

Rifles are already only available to two classes. Making rifles warrior-only, and “shotguns” engineer-only would be a waste of development resources.

Wolf.5816:

On that note, it sure would be nice if Engineers finally got a pure group of Shotgun skins. I mean like.. Hard core shot guns. Like a double barrel or combat shot gun.

Do want. Also, the smoke was a good idea as well.

I for one am glad to wield it like a shotgun- bears similarity to everyone’s favorite Texan engineer

catofnine.3194:

Wolf.5816:

On that note, it sure would be nice if Engineers finally got a pure group of Shotgun skins. I mean like.. Hard core shot guns. Like a double barrel or combat shot gun.

Do want. Also, the smoke was a good idea as well.

Or even just regular pump action, the sound effect of it being pumped between shots would be sweeeet!