Well I gave up, I rolled another class.
I got a warrior to level 50 myself, and gave up due to how BORING it was.
But whatever floats your boat dude. Hope your concerns are addressed.
I got a warrior to level 50 myself, and gave up due to how BORING it was.
But whatever floats your boat dude. Hope your concerns are addressed.
Made it to 60 with my warrior, lol. Having a blast with engineer, one of the very few non cookie cutter classes of ANY mmo I’ve ever played. They are not for everyone, especially if you like to face roll spam one button play then this is the wrong class for you.
I have played a little time on every class and allot on engineer and necromancer. I really enjoy the versatility of the engineer. I like being able to switch kits and overcome any situation, control a mob with slows and interrupts, and still put out low but decent DPS while doing it all. I get the feeling that I am not suppose to top the damage charts. Engineer feels more like the I can get out of anything and make you waste your “bag of tricks” for long enough to kill you. It is not a two button win class for sure.
I am currently lvl 47 or so and can’t bring myself to play my necromancer anymore. When I do it just seems like there is something missing. Engineer made all other classes feel like a one trick pony for me.
The love for the Engineer is no longer there. I tried to love the class, I really did but the problems with the class outshine the plusses. Fingers crossed we get some much needed time investment soon and I am able to come back to it. Wanted to play an Engineer ever since they were announced, oh the disappointment of playing one =(
So it’s now Mesmer for PVP and warrior for PVE and wow, i’m actually able to do things again =)
I can translate this.
I am retooling because Engineer is too difficult to master, and I came to Guild Wars 2 to Faceroll my way through everything. Maybe I played Warhammer Online and thought Engineers here would be like in Warhammer: stupidly high aoe damage, but they’re not like that here. I’m going to blame it on problems I’m too important to list in my Errol thread, and suggest these problems I refuse to mention get addressed.
I will quit as soon as warriors and mesmers are nerfed, or reroll whatever people are complaining about most on the forums at that time.
Sorry for being a bad member of the community, I’m attending classes at the local access centre to fix my problems. They are optimistic, but he road is long and painful.
Also, my cat died yesterday.
LMFAO! Pure gold. xD
Yup, good buy and good riddens …………………….The class may have some bugs, but it is beyond playable. I have been extremely successful with it.
If the OP was simply unhappy with the class, he would have simply changed mains and done his thing. The fact that he came here to make a specific thread about it, just screams a 3 year old throwing a tantrum, trying to get attention.
I have been extremely successful with it
Please help others then? Some of us are having trouble killing stuff (playing alone in straits of desolation or orr)
Guys plz , dont be jerks …. (only when needed)
I hope they fix ya problems with ur engineer , and good luck with the other classes m8
Its a bit hypocritical Coglin, to accuse someone of acting like a 3 year old throwing a tantrum, and then saying things like “good riddance” and telling people not to post threads.
Theres baiting, and theres being helpful. Being helpful is trying to find out if the OP has a particular issue we can solve, and if not, then kindly ignore them and their post.
I haven’t gotten mine high enough to say for sure.
Glad you found what you’re looking for, Bloodtau. I have a warrior and an engineer myself (mostly because I want a character with a rifle). For a while I was bouncing back and forth between the two characters, but as I got comfortable with kit-swapping, the engineer took over as my main character. It’s a lot of fun, but I really enjoyed the warrior too. Good luck with your new characters.
Try rolling a Necro.
I love this class, aint nothing else like it around.
To be honest, I was close to dropping the class much like OP. It was getting tedious watching everyone around me faceroll everything and feeling like I couldn’t do anything near what they could. Then I read Tallman’s guide:
and started playing the class like it should be played. Since then, haven’t looked back.
Any particular tips that made a difference for you, Dybz?
I knew most of the stuff there before reading.
So umm… right now I’m waiting for someone to revive me at Conquest Marina Point of Interest in Straits of Devastation, because if I have to go to waypoint just ONE MORE TIME my brain might just blow-up.
I don’t care how long it takes, I’m just going to lay down there dead, because after so many tries I’ll just keep dying here again and again.
(Trying to go to west side of Straits of Desolation so I can do my next personal story quest)
Ugh.
Just asked myself “I feel pretty good about my engineer. Do my results match how I feel?” Then I went to the PvP section of my hero window and compared the number of wins for each character to the number of games each character has played.
Turns out my engineer is great for my mood, but not so great for my team. His win percentage is about 35% right now. My warrior sits at 50%, and my Mesmer (who fills me with ambivalence) wins about 65% of his games (although his sample size is very small compared to the other two).
I still enjoy the engineer a lot, but I had no idea his results were so bad. I’m not sure I want to be the player who cheerfully carries his team into the cellar.
@Signahead : What spec are you sporting?
@JoxerNL
I tweak it pretty frequently, but it usually looks something like this:
When I’m playing (and not looking at my overall results) it’s a blast. The control and survivability are good. The damage is OK. And it offers some decent support to my team.
It seems to be at its best when I work with 1-2 other teammates. When we attack an objective, I move into the scoring zone and drop nails from the tool belt and a healing AoE/light combo field from the elixir gun. Then I target opponents (starting with the lowest health) and hit them with control and DPS until they drop.
The individual fights are long, but my team captures the objective more often than not. But we can’t capture the objectives fast enough to win the game, and team defense is unreliable. I can stay behind, but without my teammates the best I can hope for in most fights is a draw.
My warrior also tries to team up with 1-2 other players, but he skips the support stuff and goes straight for rifle DPS. He seems to capture points much faster than the engineer.
The mesmer teams up or just wanders the field and looks for targets of opportunity. He’s very strong 1v1, which makes him great for capturing (or simply neutralizing) lightly-guarded objectives.
I think I like the engineer so much because he’s a good support character. I’ve always played a healer in other games, and I love working as a force-multiplier for my teammates. But I also think that he may be more useful for my team if I set him up as DPS, especially when I’m running pick-up games. Quick captures seem more valuable than steady support.
If I’m going for DPS, I’m not sure if the engineer is my best choice. Compared to the engineer’s DPS, the Warrior is really straightforward. With simpler combos and fewer key-presses I can deal damage much faster than I can with the engineer. Or at least that’s how it looks from here.
All i can suggest (given i do not know your teams composition) is to try a dual pistol Condition spec. (possibly with alchy off)
That way your still contributing to your team (with alchy and conditions), while putting conditions on the enemy and putting out reasonable DPS.
Through Alchy you will also be alot more “tanky” i found.
Mind ymmv.
Fair enough. Everybody has different opinions, and i can understand why you feel that way towards the engi.
I play engineer in wvw mostly and I am always happy about it. I have a solution for every situation. I can be a very effective anti melee, I can be one of the best ranged AoE profession in sieges, I can run fast as long as I want, most of the time ahead of group. I can make insane amounts of combos alone within the same build.
What can I ask more
Well, bug fixes
Thanks, Joxer NL.
I tried the pistols and they worked well, although I was pretty ragged while I figured out the new weapons. If I stick with the engineer, I may go with pistols in the future.
In the meantime, I’m going to spend some time honing the warrior’s DPS. I’d also like to test out an elementalist. Straight DPS seems to work better for me in pick-up PvP, and our regular PvP group could use more damage too.
Im leveling a warrior cos i like the class. Im doing prettykittengood on my engineer, my main problem is i feel like im funneled into one or two specs, i have done hours of theory crafting for support only to look at it and think ‘This does not beat the AoE chill, poison and massive vuln from grenades’
I do love grenades, but feels tedious since it seems to be all i rely on. Im trying a bomb/elixir gun healing build now, circling super elixir and kit refinement for constant healing feild (double dipping if needed) and giving regen to melee peeps from bomb explosions. It feels pretty boring however which is akittenshame, and some say they don’t notice the healing (though it is HoT based and not burst healing, so meh)