Guild Wars 2

I noticed a particular skill on the Engineer calling itself Hip-Shot…
“That skills specialty must be that he fires from the hip!” I’m thinking.
Then I test the rest of the skills, and guess what? He’s still firing from the hip. . .

My take on that particular little detail is:
He must be a complete idiot! He doesn’t know how to properly aim his shots! Well then again he is an adventurer and not a trained soldier, and was probably never told how practical aiming can be… Despite how practical his inventions are, his gunmanship needs to be polished. He should learn from using his pistol! He actually aims with it! To the point where he runs with his body bent sideways in order to line up shots!

Heh, funny little detail that. Then again he is utilising the rifle more like a shotgun… On another note, maybe if he learned how to aim down the sights we wouldn’t be limited to 100 range for max damage on blunderbuss? Just a thought.

Hahah, silly engie…

dude …. you play counter strike 1.6 ?
LOOK at how they hold AK47
isn’t that proof to you how awesome hip shooting is
think of it as it’s a shotgun that shoot SLUG

fingers crossed for the next engi weapon…. hopefully shotgun.

The hipshot is probably the hardest thing TO aim. The other long range rifle shot fires a net that expands, the blunderbuss is… well, a blunderbuss. Overcharge (if that’s what it’s called) relies on the blast power, and as for the launch thing, he’s aiming at the ground.

If he can aim with the hip shot, the rest is a cakewalk, so he might as well fire them all that way.

Holesale.2640:

fingers crossed for the next engi weapon…. hopefully shotgun.

we already have a shotgun, it’s called rifle

I pity the Engineer that worked hard to get the legendary rifle, Predator, only to realize his Engineer would look rediculous shooting a weapon like that from the hip like a shotgun.

Yea, it’s no rifle. They were just too lazy to give engineer’s their own weapon set called shotgun, so they gave us all the shotgun skills to be used with a rifle skin :-P

If anyone finds a suitable shotgun skin let me know. =D

The WvW/Bandit ‘rifle’ looks like a spas-12 sort of. And the pirate one is… well, self evident. The Vigil’s rifle looks like a railgun, but it could go either way.

At least it’s not as confusing as what the Warrior does.

Rifle #1) Bleeding Shot – Fire a shot that bleeds your target.
Fires while looking down the sights.

Rifle #3) Volley – Fire a volley of shots at your foe.
Fires while looking down the sights – if anything should be hip fired, this should be.

Rifle #4) Brutal Shot – Shoot your foe and make them vulnerable.
Fires while looking down the sights.

Rifle #5) Rifle Butt (melee attack)

And then we have…

Rifle #2) Aimed Shot – Fire a precise shot that cripples your foes.
Fired from the hip.

Wait, what?

Yeah the crafted Bandit rifle looks like a shotgun, also the crafted Ogre Blaster has a similar shape to shotguns.

Engineers are so talented they can hip-shot someone right in the eyes from 1200 if they want. If that’s not impressive and awesome enough for you, I don’t know what to say.

I just rationalize it as “These guys do so much trigonometry in the middle of combat, they can calculate the trajectory of their shots with enough precision they don’t really need to aim. The scope just lets them range-find more accurately.”

hahaha, this is a funny thread and so true. I thought about that when i had the sniper rifle looking skin on my engineer. “man hes so good he never even uses the scope!”. Another reason why a typical sniper rifle may never come our way over a more thematic weapon option like Rocket launcher or freeze ray or some nonsense.

I’d like a Grenade Launcher-type deal, maybe like a weaker version of the Grenade kit, or maybe sort of…I dunno. Maybe have it have, like, 1 is the basic attack, of course, with some Bleed damage, then 2 is a flare, so it blinds and confuses/stuns in a small AoE, 3 is a smoke/poison gas bomb, 4 is a grappling hook that drags light enemies to you and you to heavier enemies while also letting you target the ground somehow, and 5 is, uh, maybe a rapid-fire burst of 1 or something? It’d at least make a little more sense for holding at the hip than a rifle.