Guild Wars 2

It’s been about seven months or so since I played, so I’m just skimming over some of the various changes that have been made since I quit paying attention to the game. It appears that rifle and/or gadget builds for Engineers have been effectively sent the way of the dodo.

Sitting Duck, Scope, Speedy Gadgets, and Incendiary Powder and Modified Ammunition synergy (IIRC, it used to be possible to run both of these at once) are all gone. What’s a rifle-toting, mine-laying Engineer to do now? And whose idea was Gadgeteer? Getting hit five times in order to gain a CD reduction on ONE gadget is hardly what I’d consider a worth slotting.

My poor Engineer seems forever fated to be a doormat, it seems.

darkace.8925:

It’s been about seven months or so since I played, so I’m just skimming over some of the various changes that have been made since I quit paying attention to the game. It appears that rifle and/or gadget builds for Engineers have been effectively sent the way of the dodo.

Sitting Duck, Scope, Speedy Gadgets, and Incendiary Powder and Modified Ammunition synergy (IIRC, it used to be possible to run both of these at once) are all gone. What’s a rifle-toting, mine-laying Engineer to do now? And whose idea was Gadgeteer? Getting hit five times in order to gain a CD reduction on ONE gadget is hardly what I’d consider a worth slotting.

My poor Engineer seems forever fated to be a doormat, it seems.

Rifle is still fine, just combine it with grenade kit, soldier’s or marauder’s amulet in PvP and berzerker/sinister in PvE.