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Posted by: Sonho.3697

Sonho.3697

Is it just me or is the engineer extremly bad during this state compered to other classes?
there’s nothing we can do but use our explode skill while other classes got blink,stealth and so on

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Posted by: Wulf of Highland.1576

Wulf of Highland.1576

LOL! I always go toe to toe against even Mesmers without any trouble. The only time ive faced any hard counter against me was a Ranger who spamed spirts .

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Posted by: Strongback.6420

Strongback.6420

It is absolutely horrid.
The whole “pull the enemy towards you” thing is suicidal.
It should be something like “pull yourself towards towards target location” or something like that.

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Posted by: Tigger.8035

Tigger.8035

auto defense net turrets arena net. Do it

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Posted by: Navaris.5087

Navaris.5087

Only play in WvWvW and only occasionally PvE. However, I believe the pull an enemy towards you deal can interrupt someone about to curb-stomp your face in, at least it appears to do so for me. So it might be useful if you PvP.

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Posted by: aeroh.8930

aeroh.8930

Yeah, but i believe everyones #2 downed ability is an interrupt. The engineers whole downed state could use some work. A teleport/rope gun would be nice.

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Posted by: IceBlizzard.1054

IceBlizzard.1054

It used to be worse during beta. It still could use some work. The number 2 skill doesnt make sense. I love pulling minions toward me when im down /slap to my forhead

The only way its useful if somehow a player is running away and u want to catch him….whats the chances of that.

Dragonslayer
GoF Commander

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Posted by: milo.6942

milo.6942

All “pull” effects in game are also interrupts. It’s to stop the stomp.

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Posted by: Killthehealersffs.8940

Killthehealersffs.8940

Theres a trait when u get down state , drops into the ground a random flamethrower or elixir gun .
I dont know if its bugged , but i would love to equip it and use the aoe pushback of the flamethrower or the <<jump-4>> or the elixir gun and teleport myself away from the crowd .
But that would create a new whinning towerds the company :P

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Posted by: Merrunz.4730

Merrunz.4730

When I get downed while trying to take a fort in WvWvW I like pulling people off the walls. Then they try to flag me and I explode knock back them.

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Posted by: Poplik.8697

Poplik.8697

the pull stops stomps and if the enemy waits for few seconds before second stomp you will have your bomb ready, so you can interrupt him twice, that doesn’t seem too bad.

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Posted by: Lyuben.2613

Lyuben.2613

My issue is that a lot of classes now have AoE interrupts.

Thunderclap, that thing from the guardians and mesmers and thieves having ways to stop lots of stompers.

Engineers have a single target interrupt.

Maybe make the booby trap come on cooldown immediately?

Vibor Bauman- Level 80 Engineer- Gandara

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Posted by: randybabble.5670

randybabble.5670

They should just make the #2 downed ability a smoke bomb. I’ve spent many times spamming #2 in WvW as soon as I go down and get stomped before the animation actually throws the rope. Though, I haven’t tried the Flamethrower/Elixer Gun trait yet. Maybe that’s the better option.

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Posted by: Andazeus.1928

Andazeus.1928

If they just swapped the cooldown of 2 and 3, it would be fine imho.

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Posted by: Escellation.9270

Escellation.9270

auto defense net turrets arena net. Do it

Auto Defense Turrets during down state would be epic.

Overall, I believe the downed state of the engineer leaves something to be desired, even though we have two forms of CC that can be combo’d well. It still, IMO, could be better.

STAIRS?! NOOOOOOOOOOO!

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Posted by: Andazeus.1928

Andazeus.1928

A defensive turret actually sounds pretty cool indeed.

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Posted by: Ron Cordova.9824

Ron Cordova.9824

From the very oldest page of topics to the front page, this is still something about which engineers have been asking for attention (or at least developer comment saying “stop crying we want it that way”).

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Posted by: Toolbox.9375

Toolbox.9375

From the very oldest page of topics to the front page, this is still something about which engineers have been asking for attention (or at least developer comment saying “stop crying we want it that way”).

There’s actually a recent thread regarding this subject, no need to bump a year-old one. :P

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/Suggestion-Downed-State-Revamp

The class is always greener on the other side.

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Posted by: Ron Cordova.9824

Ron Cordova.9824

That was kind of my point… it’s one of the older complaints engineers have had and zero progress or comment has been made on it.

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Posted by: Toolbox.9375

Toolbox.9375

That was kind of my point… it’s one of the older complaints engineers have had and zero progress or comment has been made on it.

Ah, I see.

While I won’t say it’s okay that Engineer’s downed state is so completely horrible, I must note that there are dozens upon dozens upon hundreds of basic game balance and quality of life issues, not to mention outright bugs, that ArenaNet has not seen fit to address since before the game even launched. Bringing up the fact that nothing’s been done about it is largely futile; most any negative aspect of the game, programming-wise, can be chalked up to the apparent design tactic of “plug your ears and go lalalalala”.
Every online game seems to have its developer problems… GW2’s is apathy/flippancy towards maintaining the product, rather than just pushing out more (mostly temporary) content.

The class is always greener on the other side.

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Posted by: Ron Cordova.9824

Ron Cordova.9824

I agree with that sentiment, but I try not to fall into the trap of thinking “well, they couldn’t be bothered to fix it by now, why bother bringing it up”

Although it’s probably useless to call attention to something that’s not turrets, it’s all we can do. If we don’t make our problems known, then we share the onus and anet can say “we didn’t know that was even an issue”