Guild Wars 2

Hey ANet, my fellow GW2 players,

I really love the new elite specialization for the engineer – the scrapper. most of all I Iike the gyros (flying bots? hell yeah!). I find use for every single one, but I have serious troubles for the shredder gyro.

the good parts: the toolbelt skill is awesome! low cooldown, 2s daze and a lightning field <3
the rather bad parts: I have problems placing the shredder gyro itself. Despite it does near to no damage, I have to rely on allies to lay down the combofields on it, even in the enemy/enemies move/s away from it. Even the combo-fields the engineer has access to feel unsatisfying in combination with the shredder gyro. you place the gyro somewhere, lay down your field and the smart enemy player moves away. do I miss something? Has anyone ideas how to use it efficiently?

ANet, I don’t want this to sound barefaced, but would it be better if the gyro moves around with you? just like the function gyro. so i can make use of its whirl finishers on the way…

cheers,
Dschromm

Wahoo! >:(

There are serval things wrong with the Shredder Gyro:

• whirl finisher are weak
• it does not inherit condition damage / duration from the engi, it has it’s own stats, thus can’t deal damage
• it does not inherit healing power from the engi, thus can’t heal with water whirls
• it does not inherit power damage for direct hits / crits aswell
• it is unable to proc traits such as sharpshooter

All those things make this gyro unbelievable bad. It’s the works skill in the whole game and I’m totally unable to find any purpose of this crap for any situation.

About it’s toolbelt – it’s like a bomb aa with a daze, that’s about it … it’s too weak too …

Sad greez!
- Ziggy :<

This thing even has a cast time. Why?
There is only one good reason to use it: to farm mobs in pve with it’s toolbelt skill.

Shredder Gyro’s Toolbelt ability can be useful in an interrupt build, but as a Gyro I feel its not made very well and could use a rework. If it dealt damage like a guardian trap/necro well.. then maybe it’d have some more use to it.

Dash.8027:

Shredder Gyro’s Toolbelt ability can be useful in an interrupt build, but as a Gyro I feel its not made very well and could use a rework. If it dealt damage like a guardian trap/necro well.. then maybe it’d have some more use to it.

Even then I think blasty builds up more pressure and has a nice toolbelt aswell.

guildabd.6529:

This thing even has a cast time. Why?
There is only one good reason to use it: to farm mobs in pve with it’s toolbelt skill.

Yeah, I notice that the cast time has been flipped for shredder gyro: while other gyro are instant cast and have a cast time to self destruct, shredder has a cast time to deploy but instantly self destructs.

The only use I can think for this is to generate an on-demand superspeed field with Final Salvo. To preemptively place shredder gyro near Vale Guardian, and destruct when green circle pops, the green circle team runs through the field and never misses a green circle. You know, if green circle team happens to be struggling /shrug.