Guild Wars 2

Just wanted to warn those who are considering playing an engineer that they are a blast. Actually, this is more to warn people about negative opinions in the forums. If you really want to play the class, then do so. I feel like I wasted a lot of time switching from character to character just because people were complaining about the weaknesses of the profession.

Then I came to a realization.

No matter what forum I read or profession I played, there was always something to complain about. Now don’t think I’m flaming people because they are pointing out what needs to be improved on. We really do need those otherwise the gameplay will never improve. My argument is just play for what you think is fun. For me the engineer is the best class and will be my main, however, I probably would have already been at eighty if I didn’t keep switching by what people say on the forums. Take in what people are saying to get a better idea about the strengths and weaknesses of each class, but don’t ruin having fun doing so.

i 100% agree, even too i made the post “Engineer dead again.” all class is still very good and fun to play in PvE. Engineer is in my opinion a more challenging class that make you feel like a boss when you start to master it.

Looking at the classes in the game, I think it takes a special kind of person to want to play Engineer. We’re the jack of all trades master of none. If you want crazy burst, play a warrior of thief. If you want healing and AOE, play a ele. If you want boons and survivability, take a guardian. If you want serious condition dmg and allies, a necro or ranger are a better bet.

If however you value having something to deal with almost every situation, then welcome to the engi class.

Hard to master, easy to enjoy.

Finally some others that feel the way I do! I basically bought this game because of the Engineer class, it just seemed really cool and very unique compared to other mmo classes. Much to my satisfaction, it IS very cool and unique.

I have been playing MMO’s since 1999 and no class has ever been as fun as the Engineer for me personally. Every other class has a certain “Meh, done that before” vibe to it, at least for soemone who has played alot of MMO’s. However the engineer is fresh, new and fun.

There is alot of complaining on these forums about the Engineer, mostly from people who seem to think that just because an Engineer can’t 1 shot every mob and person in the game it’s a bad class. This is simply foolish.

A big “Thank You!” to A-net for making this awsome class!

Mechanico.3194:

I probably would have already been at eighty if I didn’t keep switching by what people say on the forums.

This. My engi is 55 and I have 4 other alts over level 30 that I keep swapping to because of all the criticism I see.

Problem is as cool as the Engie is, it’s in drastic need of some Anet bonuses to keep it on par with other classes on a one to one. PvE is fine, its where WvW and PvP comes to head ,that the engineer classes really fault. I am still waiting for Anet to test the engineer out on WvW and prove to us that we do not need a ton of improvements to " close the gap".
Even in PvP engies can hold their own despite the slow speeds and other issues known to engie players. WvW is where its at and Anet need to field these this to see how best to tweak this class as a stand alone class as others are.

Welp. It’s up to you to play the class and form your own opinions about it. If you end up coming here with suggestions on how to improve it, then you might find out that there’s valid points across these forums. The more you play the better you get at filtering out the non-content.

Just don’t judge the whole forum based on how we act after a patch. Those tend to bring up a lot of resentment here.

As fun and cool engineers are, the general population still believes they are underpowered. While it may not be true in spvp, it might be true in other aspects. I took a poll for an other project of the state a game and asked many people what they thought was the most underpowered class. it was basically split 50/45/5% between Ranger/Engineer/Necro. So somethings wrong with the class. Either its too complicated, too hard, or something. I’m not sure what, but being the least play clas as it is and the second class considered most underpowered shows there are issues.

Engineers are great, but they are just not quite finished yet
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If you ask in general chat in a few different game areas, “should I play engineer?” you’ll get a lot of negative replies typically. Like “my engineer is off screen at char select, and will be until anet do something for them”

A few people get a big kick from playing underdog class, when a lot of people leave a class, you can end up with quite polarised forums, as a few will want engineer to reach a decent level of finish and will hope that talking about it on official forums actually translates to dev actions.

It’s okay that engineer class was made last and wasn’t ready for release, everyone expected it’s fun potential at release to get polished. However engineer development has so far lacked effort, vision or consistency.

Many engineer builds have taken severe hits and become unplayable since release. The majority of engineer issues have been ignored. Anet don’t even head towards their own design statements.

It’s very unclear at this point what the hell devs want engineer to be.