Guild Wars 2

Was suprised there wasn’t one to begin with, especially with the snipers available in some event/heart areas. So, would it be a good idea to give the Engineer a Sniper kit to give it some long range options?

Weapon abilities would be somewhere along the lines of:

1: Auto-attack, Direct damage, slow RAF.
2: Suppressing fire, random spray of bullets towards the target area, aoe slow. 15sec cd.
3: Snipe, charged shot, hold for increased critchance, accuracy OR critdmg, knocks target over upon succesful crit. 15sec cd
4: Entrench, setup a sniping position, gain stealth and increased damage on your next 3 shots but you cannot move. Using the ability again deploys a spotting tool for a second player who can mark targets, marked targets have an increased chance to be critted by sniper. Lasts 30sec. 1min cd.
5: Camouflage, gain stealth and movementspeed increase, but cannot attack. (good for getting in- and out position.) lasts 10sec. 30sec cd.

Sniper Rifle abilities would all have a range of like… 1500-2000. I don’t really have a decent idea on whats fair here… but it is a a sniper so some range is warranted.

Toolbelt skill: Hipfire from your Sniper Rifle, knocking back and damaging targets in a line. The closer your target(s) the further the knockback and damage.

Alright, obviously needs tuning but these are just ideas…

Thoughts?

Edit:
Alright it seems the general consensus is that the #5 ability would be too strong so… how about we change it to this:
#5: Camouflage, gain movementspeed increase and become untargettable for 5sec, you cannot attack during this period. 1min cd.

With the stealth feature removed other players can plainly see where you’re going but it’s still a good escape ability.

We all have dreams.

I suspect the camouflage would be considered too OP (it could be used in combination with the other kits a bit too well). Besides, as a sniper, you should never be near enemies in the first place.

To make it a bit more fair, i’d say you’d also only have the increased range when entrenched, and both entrenching and getting out of entrenchment should take time.

Perhaps cripple instead of knockdown on snipe hit.

What might be fun as well for the toolbelt would be a whack with knockdown; when somebody eventually jumps you, whack ’em with the sniper rifle, then make a run for it

That sounds fun to me! The spotting tool idea is pretty cute, too.

One thing you haven’t mentioned is combo finishers, but it’s still a fun idea and it’d be nice to have a longer-ranged option even if it was a kit.

I’d like a “sniper” kit, a kit that is simple DPS output that evens us out with other classes.

I always thought the Rifle should’ve been a sniper type weapon for Engineers.

Add a shotgun weapon type or something I don’t know and give it the present moveset.

I LOVE this idea. Please ANet, make it so.

I really like this idea. Your ideas are fairly solid (I don’t like the 5 skill because as others said, it would be too op).

Considering engineers seem to be the “Jack of all trades, master of none”, I think that engineers really should have a sniper to compete with a rangers longbow. A sniper that hits very hard but shoots very slowly would be very cool.

Perhaps this kit should be a 30-point elite skill and the 1 should be the 3, so it acts like a mortar. I think having to take time to line up each shot and deal extreme damage when you fire would feel very sniper-like. Just my 2pence.

+1 to this idea. I would love to see this implemented at some point in the games development!

Please give us sniper kit <3

Seems like a good idea, and i’d like to also see a sniper turret similar to the ones somewhere in the Charr areas.
Just got to think of what traits could go with the sniper. Increased range? Damage? Piercing bullets?

I would absolutely love to see this added to the game.

Hmmm, there seems to be a lot of interest to see this idea come to life. All we can do now is sit tight and hope the devs catch wind of this topic and do their magic.

Rather a sniper kit than the proposed changes to rifle…….

/Signed