The ‘nail gun’ already exists. In fact, it even fires a net gun, a burst of ‘nails’, a cc shot, and one that does great damage on top of a movement burst with invulnerable frames. See: Rifle.
First: Jump Shot doesn’t have invulnerable frames. Don’t know how you got this idea.
Second: Rifle works best at close range, not at distance. What the OP means is a proper damage kit which works best at range. Like he said, grenades are nice (even after the range nerf), but it would be nice to have a good single target damage range kit. I don’t mind to get it with a future elite spec.
But I would prefer something else than a nail gun. Like a gatling or something else.
Rocket launcher (which would basically be a replacement for grenades or mortar kit with player targeting instead of ground targeting.) could be pretty neat.
Jump shot has invulnerable frames in the air. Never been cc’d half way through. Right before, all kittening day. Not mid jump though. Least not in my experience. Crippling condi applied before will kitten the jump, but again, I have never been chilled or crippled half way through. I suspect interrupts like overcharged could potentially do it though. Much like binding roots cc after elixir s proc.
Mortar kit is what you are describing – what a net will say.
While we are dreaming though, I want a pony, and a rail gun kit.
Nades are nice for pve but we have no reliable power based ranged weapon for pvp.
Thus i propose Anet implements the NailGun.
-Power Based
-Kit for engineer base not a scrapper skill.
-Same range as pistols.
Some real ranged options, through kits and/or a new elite spec would be nice.
Pistols and Rifle their strongest attacks are around melee range.
These weapons are therefore melee/in between melee and medium range.
Flamethrower kit is in between melee and medium range (bit more near medium range than the two above).
Hammer, although cool, is a melee weapon.
So our next weapon and/or kit should be a reliable ranged weapon for sure imo.
Ranged as in 900 range with your best attacks or higher range, like in the 1200.
Maybe a longbow/shortbow with trick arrow bombs like flash bomb arrow and such.
Maybe a new engi only weapon, which would be more gun like, which is probably more fitting. Like a ray gun or arm cannon. Or that could be the kit.
I want to start this disclaimer by referencing my disclaim from above about, “in my experience”. I only engi, I usually pvp, but only been playing like a year. I haven’t seen someone snag me out of mid air, yet. I also haven’t rifled in pvp for a minute, so I’m sure it will happen, and it will probably kill me. If that’s all you thought was wrong-enough with what I wrote to comment, that’s straight.
WTF world/game are you people playing in? a proper ranged kit? wtf? You have every range in game covered. Long medium and close alllllll range options. wtf.. are you talking about?? Hammer was given to you because ALL range options were covered.. Yo seriously? I wonder sometimes when i read the forums.. are they 12? or does there mental state simply does not comprehend the full capacity of the class? So confused. dam you forums you did it again!.
WTF world/game are you people playing in? a proper ranged kit? wtf? You have every range in game covered. Long medium and close alllllll range options. wtf.. are you talking about?? Hammer was given to you because ALL range options were covered.. Yo seriously? I wonder sometimes when i read the forums.. are they 12? or does there mental state simply does not comprehend the full capacity of the class? So confused. dam you forums you did it again!.
Umm don’t we have a kit called mortar? That can hit 1500 (+300 ghost) range? Do you guys mean single target range dps? I would not say no to a sniper kit kind of thing but would’nt it make other professions redundant and move engi from jack of all trades to master of “one” ?
Umm don’t we have a kit called mortar? That can hit 1500 (+300 ghost) range? Do you guys mean single target range dps? I would not say no to a sniper kit kind of thing but would’nt it make other professions redundant and move engi from jack of all trades to master of “one” ?
The problem with mortar kit is that, at max range it is near impossible to practically hit a moving target (PvP and WvW) since it’s projectile speed is so slow.
But if you compare it with similar ranged attacks it is way better. And ofcourse it has fields. Ele has a huge delay on aoe and rangers attacks are single target. Only with moryar you can bypass reflection fields due to projectile drop. I always play mortineer ao I am used to calculate the necessities. And for me only thing engi needs is bug fix.
Like I said I would not say nay to a sniper kit. Hell I would really love to have a new kit with cool skills. But other ranged professions would get mad.
I don’t think engineer needs a ranged kit. The engineer is a short range support damage specialist. Part of mastering the engineer is being at mid to close range, and enjoying that style. If you want far ranged combat, try a warrior with a gun or a ranger.
I know people think an engineer could be awesome with a ranged kit, but engineer are supposed to be in melee. Even flame thrower, rifle, grenades and bomb, gives us option – cc damage fields to dominate in melee.
I think if an engineer had a ranged kit, it would destroy the class identity. But that’s just my opinion.
I’m really fine with traited nades, rifle and mokittenunno what they are lacking, maybe it’s just you :|
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