Guild Wars 2

What is your general opinion? I have the feeling this weapon gets no attention right now just because grenades deal easy double the damage and have better cc/damage negation with freeze/blind. But what will happen when grenades might get a nerf (atleast under water)?

1: Very simple autoattack. Slow missile speed (also I think it needs a smaller model, hate it when there comes a giant torpedo out of my speargun). Overall attackspeed/damage is rather low imo. Not worth using.
2: Main damage source that is actually the only thing putting it somewhat near grenade level atleast in melee range. Vulnerability is a nice sideeffect.
3: A backwards move that also pulls a single target. I find this rather situational/hard to use.
4: Actually like this skill. Good damage and what is very good: mix between condition and normal damge.
5: Situational block spell. Sometimes useful though.

What I consider the biggest flaw is that engineer, as we all know has basically 2 weapon choices on land: pistol and rifle. So he will either go condition damage or power. Now under water he only has ONE weapon. So what this weapon should offer is a 50/50 mix of both ways to deal damage. However the condition part is highly underrepresented.

Autoattack should bleed and be faster (with smaller missile). The pull should pull all the way in fornt of you so that you can follow up with the second skill and also propably poison the target.

GRENADE KIT !!!
even not traited

enough said

Yes I mentioned that. This is about speargun though.

I never use speargun because with a power build, grenades out damage it, and with a conditions build, grenades out conditition it.

It has no utility either. The net? Pfft.
The weird pull/retreat? Yeah I have tons of use for that …

Its just a badly designed weapon.

The torpedo should have a reload animation like a rifle-grenade.

It’s got GSS (Guardian Scepter Syndrome) but apart from that it’s friggin’ amazing. The only projectile that deserves to move that slow is the net.

Its awful.

Just to note, while everyone knows how crazy grenades are underwater.

Elixir gun is also quite good, and way better then spear

Its a control weapon and does what it is supposed to do pretty well. Torpedo hits pretty hard to make up for it’s slowness, and up close the mine spread is pretty powerful as well. I like to use the grapple to yank people off the point and into a net.

It is out shined by how crazy the grenade kit is underwater, though at least for fighting in a set area.