Guild Wars 2

Concerning the new traits and incoming nerf to celestial stats, do you think cele rifle will remain meta for engineer or will a p/s condi build take over? Of course its speculation and all.

yes.
/15schars

It is waaaaay too early to call stuff like this, zerker hammer engie could be meta for all we know, there’s still plenty of specs yet to be revealed and figuring out how they work together will take at least a good month of practice and testing when we can play them.

Im talking/asking about the upcoming trait changes, not the HOT expansion.

Doubt it, the 6/0/6/0/6 just looks much better for Cele than Condi and that will be the meta pretty much. I can only see me penalizing myself by going into Firearms instead of Explosives for the conditions.

Magi hammer kitless full gadget engineer will clearly be the new meta, duh.

Rifle hybrid will remain meta. No idea about the amulet, it’ll depend on just how ANet handles the amulet issue. It won’t be pure grenades, though. Bombs are going to be OP as hell with how much might you can stack easily through dodge/heal blasts, all of which will heal you as well.

Condi stuff could either be really strong or really weak depending on how the rework goes, and we have no idea what (both new and old) condi traits/skills will look like after it. Personally I’m leaning towards weak, but again, no idea what ANet will do there.

Rifle over pistol/shield. It has too much going for it with teams and decap-ability in conquest to not remain superior. The real question is how the hammer will compare.

I think I will go rabid over celestial and pistol shield bombs, tool and eg. Pistol will get lots of buffs coated bullets baseline explosives traits affect it and new trait condi from precision will make nice synergies

Screw Rifle n Cele, P/S Rabid o/

Pry

Meh to rifle, yay for zerker P/S

i like the way how rifle works cc and direct dmg, but ye cele spec looks a bit broken in terms of sustain and dmg you can deal. on the other hand if celestial rifle gonna be nerfed there will be condi engis only again. i would be happy to play viable power engi spec. anet pls

when will the trait patch go out ?

why the p/s hate?

P/S is awesome. Engi shield is one of the best offhands in the game and pistol 2 and 3 are fine skills. The autoattack is dead weight but even that might change with the upgrade to being an explosion and having piercing+range made baseline. The problem is that shield has such long cooldowns that don’t work well with the engi’s attrition playstyle.

The thing is, rifle 4→2 is the strongest tool engi’s have for decapping. It’s a very low cooldown and with the baseline range increase on 4 becomes even easier to hit. The autoattack is better for applying some ranged pressure and jump shot is versatile for chasing, bursting, or disengaging. With nades, the CC on rifle is a godsend for setting up grenade barrage.

With bombs, I prefer pistol/shield. With nades, I prefer rifle.

People will try to run their normal Cele but things WILL change. No doubt about that.

+ wont incendiary powder going to firearms hurt the celestial build pretty hard? the easy burns were accounting for a lot of damage no?

Staffordshire.1752:

+ wont incendiary powder going to firearms hurt the celestial build pretty hard? the easy burns were accounting for a lot of damage no?

They account for a strong fraction of damage versus low cleanse classes, however the celestial build is primarily a crowd control power build, also a lot of the other changes will benefit the power side, so it’s not too huge. It will be interesting to see how the condition builds fare after the patch.