Guild Wars 2

I don’t play engie, but I think it’s so fun and creative and something you don’t see very often in NA. Most of all, it’s skillful – you’re not just spamming nades. Push people off points to decap. If you’re lucky, you can kill someone with condies. If you need to kite around again to gain some sustain via backpack regen + regen boon, then you can do that as long as you’re able to push people back off of the node again once you are comfortable to go back.

Too bad, with all the stab wars get (or lyssa runes; who DOESN’T run lyssa with condi nukes around) and the condi immunity in the game and the condi nukes in the game, it has a hard time dealing with these things.

Yea it’s either the nerf Bezerker stance or they nerf Stability uptime on warriors. Because it seriously sucks to not be able to do anything for 8seconds.

Chicago Jack

I don’t play engie…Most of all, [Teldo’s build] is skillful – you’re not just spamming nades.

Is any other engi rather sick of hearing this? Especially from someone who has not played the class? I do not mean to pick on you specifically Jack, I really just want to know what constitutes “spamming” and “skill” in this game.

Everything that kills one is considered mindless spam, whereas oneself carefully makes decisions as to when to use his abilities to maximum effect. Of course it’s a pile of horse kitten.

I like Teldos build, but i don’t like using it. It seems too squishy for my taste, particularly since it lacks a stunbreak. I watched his stream the other day and saw him getting absolutely demolished by warriors and in teamfights (he hasn’t played in a long time though).

Teldos build is not so squishy. Yesterday he was playing with rocket boots. Still no stunbreaker but he played well in a 1vs2 against two warriors.

I’ve never heard of Teldo. Does that make me a bad player?

^^

Edit: “Not just spamming nades”… yeah well, I think this is true for pretty much every player who’s actually successfully playing Engineer. Because “just spamming grenades” will not help against any decent player.

Depends on what you consider spam? Using shrapnel and poison nade everytime its up? Yep I do that, unless they have some type of invul/block up. So does every other successful engineer that uses grenades. Same with bombkit or any other kit. How else do you accumulate damage other than using your abilities…..