new to engineer
You can’t just simply become an engineer. One must understand the inner workings of each nut and bolt in your kitten nal. This takes many years of university degree level training and practice.
If you want to be a good engineer then you shouldn’t blindly follow what other people say. The engineer is highly adaptive and a good understanding of the game, the tactics and the limits all come together.
Basically. Play the engineer. Test out all the new toys and gadgets you get. Laugh uncontrollably at some of the clumsy looking skills and explosions. Find what you enjoy doing and then capitalise on it.
Or you could indeed follow what other, highly experienced people say, like our good friend Wolfineer : http://wolfineer.com/thebuilds/
I like this job. I like it !
I just started my engi like a week and a half ago and I have been shredding through combos. Got to 80 in pvp in like 3 days on a build I didn’t understand, then started fine tuning my mechanics. I STILL haven’t played with each of the weapons as Scrap Hammer is my first choice, nor all the utils and all their possible fine-tune availability, but I can tell you this:
Playing an engineer is like playing a half built perfect robot. Everything you do is harder than it is for other classes. It takes more steps. You limp a little. You have to choose between parts of yourself that you REALLY want to keep all of, but can’t because you can only ever be half a robot. However, if you fine tune yourself, learn the synergy of how all your skills can interact with each other and other players, you will realize half of perfection is still better than everyone elses average.
Do what Bwadark said. Play.