Something interesting i found about grenades
Yup, it makes Engineer incredibly fun underwater, grenade kit, toggle on auto attack (grrr that we still have to!) and annoy the entire area with exploding screen shaking :P
Personally (note, personally!) i’d love if skill #1 on the land grenade kit was changed to the same system while retaining GTAoE for the other 4.
Makes the engineer one of the few classes to excel underwater.
Too bad the speargun is just terrible and caters only to power builds.
The terribly slow attack rate, the low range, the lack of damage… only the scatter mines is good, if you are in melee range. Everything else is bad.
Vibor Bauman- Level 80 Engineer- Gandara
It would be really nice if they changed to so land speed was the same as water speed. they also need to add that auto target, its so nice!
It would be really nice if they changed to so land speed was the same as water speed. they also need to add that auto target, its so nice!
Grenades are already the Engineer’s strongest build on land because of the difficulty of GTAoE, buffing the speed and removing their downside is not going to happen.
I suspect the reason underwater grenades have managed not to get nerfed is the fact that underwater combat doesn’t actually matter and it’s still annoying even with them.
Grenades are already the Engineer’s strongest build on land because of the difficulty of GTAoE, buffing the speed and removing their downside is not going to happen.
The difficulty of GTaoe isn’t the issue IMO, with fast cast ground targeting you can attack just as fast as any other ability. The issue IMO is no auto attack, I highly doubt Anet said hey lets compensate this large damage ability by making players have to spam their attack button.
As for the actual casting speed underwater, is this actually faster or does it seem faster? I honestly don’t know, if it actually is faster then yes I agree this would be too OP on land.
From the video if you look at the cast bars you can see that the speed is faster under water. in 30 seconds on land i was able to throw 30 times, 30 seconds under water i was able to throw a little over 40 times.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rurC8P7F-s&feature=youtu.be
here is the comparison video
(edited by Hadria.1425)
shameless bump!!
Its a mixed bag, not entirely bad.
It has no auto attack, but its also counted as an “unarmed” kit for the effect of several traits.
Also, having it work the way on land that it does underwater would mean you would NEVER hit a moving target in pvp, and your rate of fire without a direct target would go down tremendously.
Frankly, it would be better if it would just auto-refire on current ground target and that would be fine.