Static Discharge = thief shortbow 1
hmmm I see the future……..
the future says ppl will say that SD can be spammed in quick succession to achieve a better result than the ShortBow skill.
the future also says that unless something is changed WvW will end up a huge zergball arena and tagging enemies will be more important than doing higher damage.
So Thief bow wins.
Anyone who thinks SD build is even half decent is probably a terrible engineer.
Equal in regards to what?
In terms of pure behavior, it’s more like SD = Ele Air staff 1…
Tarnished Coast Engineer and… general alt-o-holic.
For the toast!
For the toast!
please dont insult my shortbow 1!
it consistently deals way more damage than SD on every hit!
Anyone who thinks SD build is even half decent is probably a terrible engineer.
As most engineers builds, it all comes down to whoever is playing it! ;]
Bounce and damage wise. Yes, it is similar to thief short bow with the difference that you can use this on a burst (fire many at the same time), which should be reason enough to add a 1-20s cooldown on it.
Anyone who thinks SD build is even half decent is probably a terrible engineer.
As most engineers builds, it all comes down to whoever is playing it! ;]
Bounce and damage wise. Yes, it is similar to thief short bow with the difference that you can use this on a burst (fire many at the same time), which should be reason enough to add a 1-20s cooldown on it.
It’s not a good build no matter how you look at it. You will find yourself spamming 1 more than often on rifle because you blew everything and you are literally useless once you do that. Not to mention the damage is incredibly mediocre.
SD was really only ever popular because of the burst potential.
It just fit players need to try and create combo rotations that are able to down ppl with the option of countering, regardless of the type of skills or overall usefullness of “builds.”
Look how fast macro Thieves popped up with the instagibs! Anet successfully made GW2 Rogues.
Engineers(and most the other professions) are very limited on their “instagib” options and don’t have the crutch luxury of stealth running away when you get attacked back.
Nevertheless players figured out that if you use low CD (Targeted)TB Skills in quick succession while running Full GC with Static Discharge you can create a burst that could down other GCs.
Same with BarrageX2 that was around for quite sometime before it became so popular.
So if you want to spend your time in WvW waiting to pick off weak enemies and quickly flee back to safety than SD will help you get the job done.
Other than that I wouldn’t recommend it and I certainly wouldn’t say it needs any sort of ICD.