Guild Wars 2

Bah, topic too long – here: Profession bundle weapons (engineer kits, elementalist conjure skills, warrior banners) can now save their autoattack status.

WOOO!!!

Oh and also:
Engineer

Elixir X: This skill now gains a duration increase from both the Inventions trait Elite Supplies and the Alchemy trait Potent Elixirs.
Freeze Grenade: This skill no longer benefits from the Explosives trait Grenadier for 5-second cooldown reduction.
Knee Shot: This Firearms trait now effects all immobilize skills for engineers. The effect can only trigger once every 5 seconds to prevent players from exploiting it to stack massive amounts of cripple.
Mortar: This skill is now properly affected by the Inventions trait Rifled Turret Barrels.
Rifled Barrels: This Firearms trait now works with the Elixir Gun kit when underwater.

Nice. But I guess this still does nothing for massive “1 spam” for Grenade Kit. And seeing as this kit is one of the most effective engineer kits, my fingers still won’t get a break.

Nice, now if only elixir x was useful!

Freeze grenade thing is a total lie.

I still throw 3 grenades.

And a weird bug…

If I swap in grenadier, while normal freeze grenade is on cooldown, it comes off it, and vice versa.

It seems like there are literally, two versions of freeze grenade, the grenadier version, and the normal version.

Throwing three grenades was never the bug, it was the extra cooldown reduction it got for no reason. That cooldown reset thing sounds like a new bug though.

Grenadier used to reduce the cooldown of freeze grenade to 15 seconds. It said nothing about not being affected by the +1 grenade thing. It’s fine.

Also unrelated: mortar range is now 1500 with rifled barrels, doesn’t reflect it on the skill tooltip but the skills on the mortar do. Elite supplies still doesnt extend the range.

Still bugged for me, whenever I change into kits, I still don’t get the status. Really annoying.

Found another bug…

Elite supplies and potent elixirs raise the duration of elixir X by 20%

But they don’t stack.

Using both gives you a simple 20%. Using either gives you the same.

Seems they nerfed elixir X.

You can no longer retain the stability after using it and leaving the transformation early.

Why would anyone use this horrible elite?

SWEET JESUS!

I might have just become an engineer main, as this was my major (and it was major) grievance with the profession. Time will tell, but in the mean time, SQUEE!

Really, thanks guys. This is totally awesome.

Before I started using the Supply Crate, I actually found Elixir X to be pretty awesome. I got Gold contribution for chugging it and hurling myself at Kol’s knees, it’s a great help with fast melee enemies who blitz past my turrets, and it’s also magnificent for breaking up crowds, at least for a moment – more, if you turn into a tornado.

They fixed elixir U- it now has 5 seconds of duration as the tooltip says.

However, I found another bug:

Elixir U+potent elixirs= 4s duration.

Prayers have been answered.

Did more testing.

I was wrong about elixir U.

Problem isn’t potent elixirs.

Problem is RNG.

Haste is 4s long
Quickening zephyr is 4s long
Frenzy is 5s long.

What a joke…

So FT now autoattacks? Can’t play and check myself right now, please tell me it does!

RoughJaco.3148:

So FT now autoattacks? Can’t play and check myself right now, please tell me it does!

It does.

All kits do (except grenade kit, which obviously has no auto attack.)

Was having lots of fun with my elixir gun earlier in WvW =)
So nice to be able to swap to rifle for CCs

I’m so going on a GW2 farming binge on my engi tonight…

Great news ! This is a great quality-of-life improvement. I’ll go torch a bunch of risen tonight to celebrate.

Now, about those sigils we talked about…