The Engineer, returning player concerns
I am also returning, but from what I am seeing, the class has been pretty ridiculously powerful since HoT and is only now being brought back in line.
all of the recent scrapper changes were to bring them back down to earth not nerf them into the ground like some are claiming. be careful with how much you take from forums it can be a pretty toxic place. Big changes will be happening basically every quarter (4x a year) and if something does break or stops working as intended the devs will basically get rite on it. (little graphic stuff not so fast but im sure they are workin on it)
For example. The last 4/19/16 patch broke an elite spec in the scrapper line and the problem was fixed within 24hrs. Was it rite away? no.. but they did fix it. Anet is definitely listening and it looks like they care more then some of us may give them credit for.
to the both of you i say
Buy HOT ! I can promise you with absolutely no doubt that it will provide you with HOURS and HOURS of content. Any complaints that you have been reading about on the forums about hot/wvw have and are continually being upgraded and worked on. I personally hate pve in most games but they have managed to make it so much more fun andaccessible in this last patch. HOT = you have fun when YOU want.
I was always a big fan of gw2. Origianl HOT expansion left a strange taste in my mouth because it didnt feal like the old game but only 6 months later these fools basically fixed everything. very proud to be part of this team.
so join up homies. HOT awaits!
I am also returning, but from what I am seeing, the class has been pretty ridiculously powerful since HoT and is only now being brought back in line.
It wasn’t ridiculously powerful. Not even all pro league teams ran scrapper.
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
Scrapper > vanilla engi