Guild Wars 2

Grant Gertz.7524:

A message from the PvP Team,
A poll regarding profession locking in PvP is up!
https://feedback.guildwars2.com
Please share your thoughts and feedback on the poll in this thread!

From a statistician’s point of view:

Please include the number of observations n in the poll’s results.
And the amount of people being part of the active player base.
This would give some information about bias of your little survey.

Other than that, it is a great idea to further get player’s opinion on matters that matter
Cheers

Useful posts. Thank you all.
Coming back after a year long break, these are valuable insights.
Does anyone have a pve build to share, I am fully berserker equipped.
And furthermore I’d like to ask whether someone would bother explaining the calculations behind the metric: coeff/sec. Since it seems very useful I would like to do that myself.
Cheers

I do appreciate their move

Could someone post the link to the information? Didn’t find it on their YouTube channel
thanks in advance

I like to think about it being a pleasure switching back to my legendary.

Hobosacks are still not gone #2015

… I will pay! But fix the kitten hobosacks on engineer.

It is revealing how “money topics” are well represented by devs. I guess everybody has to make a living, right?
Mine is a ugly one though. That is because I love kits and they make me ugly.
And since my appearance is subpar’ my wife is actually pretty hideous too. Who do I blame? Guess yourself!

They need to hire somebody with social media experience. At least, they could put honey around our lips… As we would address somebody lazy but charming at least.

Is it low priority? Most likely.
Is that a reason to shut up about it? No. There is no thread with these dimensions in any other sub forum for 1 1/2 years on top of the list with great persistence. Does that make it high priority, again: Most likely not. But it shows how the consumers perceive it: for us it is not low priority.
Therefore, we won’t just simply shut up.
Am I fully aware of how to address that issue and am I capable of distributing Anets resources? No, therefore I am not saying they are doing it wrong.
I, and many other customers are here to simply show how we feel about this particular subject.
Kind regards

No answer is indeed an answer. There is obviously no progress done yet.

Possible combos with Magnet pull, overcharged shot, turret blows (#V trait in the first line) All the kit- CC
I simply love it. Especially now in groupfights, peoples stability took a big hit and we perfectly fill the gap of disabeling people for quite a while.

I would not support that.
Although I despise turret engi, I play it from time to time just to have some change. We have so many playable builds, it is great.
Turret engi is not neccessarily easy mode, there are a couple of very good counters against it. It furthermore helps you to practice chaining CC. With Netshot, OC, 4x turret knockback, supply crate and Rocket knock down plus thumper turret lauch.

Fightig against 3 ppl as I did yesterday, it becomes quite challenging.
But there are other cool builds out there: HGH, sd, Kitswap with Cele or Condi…
I just love our class. I need a profile-saver for my different builds to switch faster between them!

The daily bump is my new additional daily event
Just got a fractal capacitator and the Preditor. Guess what?
Nobody in my guild noticed -.-

It is a potential game changer. Perfectly on par with necro transform, dagger storm, ranger roots, mesmers moa and or mass invisibility …
We are dealing with a ltp issue here

Since we are unsuccessfully waiting for a comment of an Anet official, I’d say we should start a petition.
Veterans know how important skins are for the end game content and I honestly judge people’s experience by their appearance as I do in real life.
It is therefore outrageous that my fractal capacitator gets clipped by a hobosacks which looks like my dad’s sleeping bag from World War Two!
Then there is this beautiful legendary: the preditor. Unfortunately it is prey itself, hunted down by the inevitable hobosacks.
Having achieved these items and just realizing how unimportant they now are seriously drives me crazy. It even let’s me think of rolling a warrior just to at least look at my beautiful legendary…
As stated a thousand times and ignored another thousand times, let’s sign a petition and start a relevant thread.
Fighting an engineer I never look at the hobosacks, I judge their play style by the skills he slams in my face.
Vote for redesign, toggle option or new backpacks!
But seriously, let’s do something against it!

Hey Seamus,
After 200 games with my cele engineer, I can confidently say that I would not take Automated Response. I always avoid going deeper then 4 points into alchemy with my cele setup. The reason being necros’ and thief’s burst traits which kick in once your health is under the threshold already. I never could really ‘game change’ with Automated response. Sure, it helps if you have other defences up but while you are dragging out your death, necros become more powerful and thieves refill their endurance. I’ d much rather would take the cd reduction on the shield. The block made all the difference to not drop below 33% in the first place.
Furthermore, in explosives, I’d always take incendiary powder over 10% dog increase of explosions. Compare that trait to the equivalent for toolkit and you will find it inferior.
Nades, due to telegraphs get dodged a lot, as it is the tendency with all telegraphed skills. I almost waste my grenade barrage in one vs ones to trigger a dodge. My dmg actually comes from sigil of intelligence in conjunction with jump shot, blunderbus and toolkit!

This is all debatable, but that is my personal experience in ranked pvp.
Try to get a lot of conditions on your foe in the first place, cleanses on their side open up another good consiburst after 10 seconds. You can bridge that time with cc’s or blocks or raw dmg depending on your foes strategy

I tested the potentially very strong f skill from flame thrower, with your setup though, even classes with very weak active condition cleanses can get rid of the burning very fast which then takes the synergy of flame legion runes. Maybe you should get a cover condition sigil because the applied conditions lack their effectiveness in covering for fire which obviously is key.
Anyway, I am the first one wanting to see flamethrower more effective – the skills seem To be more versatile than the ones from our established kits. In return they kind of lack efficiency.
Anyway, I appreciate you trying to shift the meta, flamethrower has its places in hot joins but unfortunately I got very unlucky with it in ranked games.
And btw, why is flame wall so crappy. A nice firefield like ele’s staff skill would be so much more awesome to justify the freaking name of the kit at least

Dear Arena Net,

this is my high tech engineer. She was involved in setting up the Lions Arch Tradepost system. Furthermore, she was team leader for the Merlin 1 jet engines of the pack fleet aircraft. During her most successful days, she founded a cooperation between the Humanoid Research Institute founded by the Crown in cooperation with the Magitech Laboratory of the Asuran Society of Science.

Then a blow of fate took her husband and kids on a holiday trip to Caudecus’s Manor.
They got robbed and she barely survived the surge.
To remedy the pain, Dyna Mic started drinking. Her alcohol consume turned into an addiction and she lost job, home and entitlements.
Nowadays she is looking for a job and lines up every morning in front of the “Kryta works” community office. No suitable job for her so far. Thus, she makes a living as a busker all over Tyria, having not more than a penny and her Hobosack with her few belongings.

Please ArenaNet, as the official consulting agency, employed by Queen Jennah, give Dyna Mic a perspective, put her back to work in such a way as to enable her to leave her hobo life behind, drop the bundle and start over again.
As a philantropist and concerned citizen of our wonderful city Divinity’s Reach, people shouldn’t undergo such troubled time.
For now, Dyna Mic is temorarily staying with me, she has a warm bed here close to Plaza of Dwyna and a daily hot meal.

Yours faithfully,
Don Engeneros del Philantropi

That would be Dyna Mic:

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So I went through quite the process, but I finally came up with a style I am very confortable with.
Now just working towards the Dragon Wings and a nice rifle.
What do you think??

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ukuni.8745:

Foefaller.1082:

Arantheal.7396:

I came up with this and called it “RNGeebuS/D”
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQFAUlUUpkrtdxmKseRSehM6rJDCyAJEXvvA-TJBFwACuAA12foaZAAPAAA
Guarantees one abusive whisper every 15min.

I just want to say, no, that is not a mistake nor are your eyes playing tricks on you, that build does use A.E.D.

beetus still uses AED with 100 mines and its quite a good combination to run especially since he needs to be melee range to pull off 100 mines he easily gets the full heal and can very very quickly get off another 100 mine combo which incase you didn’t know is one insane hitting combo, think of it like a suicide bomber that has 2 lives.

Could you link me beetus channel/ build?
And may you explain what you mean by 100 mine combo? Thank you

I got a off-side question: If I use Elix F in conjunction with Cleansing Formula 409, will it cure a condition?
Same questions goes for Elixir H – will it, under the influense of CF 409, cure 2 conditions?
Thus, adding that trait and maybe elix S or B to the typical Cele Rifle build would make it fairly condi counterable
Thanks in andvance

Dyna Mic

thank you for the feedback guys. I kind of feel tempted now to reroll as an asura – thank you for that
Furthermore, I noticed that Asurans have very tiny backpacks as oposed to humans. With humans it looks almost like they would actually fall over

Dear engineer friends,

I do honestly love to play my engineer a lot. Though I am currently struggleing finding the right style for it.
It is a human female engineer with blue hair and a tight body.
I would like to request some armor ideas and mixes plus backpack skins additional to fitting weapon skins.
I always liked a futuristic type of look, kind of high-tech but can’t really find any clothes which would combined shift away from the awful trench coats. I’d like to be a modern and futuristic looking engineer more than anything else. Since I dislike the hobosacks already, the style issue became very prominent for me.

Any input about weapon, backpack, armor skins for a human female engineer would be very much appreciated.
Thank you in advance.

Sincerely,

Dyna Mic

Human lady: Dyna Mic … get it?

I love the build and your very objective, rational way of you, clearly and informatively explain the build, rotation and pros & cons.
Thank you for that and keep up the good work!

Subutex.2416:

Here’s my elementalist – Iri Vienna.

Hey, which set of armor is this?

I started engi ought to the many skills and low cooldowns (excluding shield which is very versatile though).
For the most button smashing, combo pull off, go with 3 kits and healing turret. Either cele with rifle or p/p or p/s
I tend to take toolkit, nades and e-gun.
You can subatitute e-gun for slick shoes, I like elix s or rocket boots for more fire. If so, take some alchemy traits to be less vulnerable to cc due to the lack of a stunbreak.
I even like having fun with the elite elixir. It can be very effective. Though crate is still the best elite in the game imo.
hint: check all your fields and combo finishers and think through all possible combos.
I like:
with poison field: rifle #5 for area weakness, f-skill toolkit for nice poison.
Water field: rifle #5 for healing, rocket boots, supply crate, shield blast, flamethrower #2 for area heal… and other finishers like explode turret.
F-1 skill healing turret plus rocket boots
smokebomb for stombs and amazing stealth combos with blast finishers.

Furthermore, bear in mind that kit skills are still executed if you do not drop bundle but rather press kit button (eg. #6) again. That gives combos like toolkit pull plus nade f skill, nade poison field plus rifle jump, pull plus netshot plus mines plus jumpshot and a lot more.
Get creative!

To OP:
“You know nothing, John Snow!”

So in a nutshell:
Run with either Assassins or Zerker gear and with Zerker trinkets – is that right?

What geartype ars you guys currently using in fractals and dungeons?

I get the most fun out of outplaying other people. Therefore I picked engineer because it is as well challenging as it is rewarding.
You though seem to care for looks and asthetics, warrior is probably the right choice.
It comes down to whats more important to you: Do you like playing good or looking good?

I would love to see some comments from anet employees regarding this matter.
Are they considering something different to the current appearance and mechanic? Will this issue, requested in a big scale, addressed?
Having really any comment on the current state would be very appreciated.

Playing with 2 to 3 kits in PvP/WvW, being aware of all the cooldowns of your skills, switching from kit to main weapon not through bundle drop but through reclicking the kit-button again in order to NOT interrupt your final nade through, your magnet pull or your fire jet is indeed quite challanging.
But honestly, that for me makes engineer so rewarding!!!
I have a really hard time going back to another class.
We do so good in dungeons, open world events etc. I can’t imagine myself just playing with the dull 13 skills of the warrior and having a healing skill which is passive all the time and not as exciting as our healing-turret-applications.
Yesterday I even replaced a thief in a dungeon:
18 seconds of stealth: Big ol bomb → smoke bomb → explode h- turret, → supply crate ontop and a nice shield blast plus 5 sec of stealth from elix s.
Just loving it…..

…. except the look of kits. But thats another topic

For PvE, you can set your “about face” button on a convenient hotkey, equip E-gun and use #4 for fast traveling in conjunction with rocket boots. I love to equip 2 kits and one other utility.
Furthermore, use healing turret, spam the skill while deploying the turret a couple of times and you should activate the water field instantaneously. This can then be utilized with rifle #5, shield #4, rocket boots, explode turret, big ol bomb, egun #4 or any other blast or jump finisher you can think of. It is very rewarding to play and as opposed to a warriors healing skill you can do some crazy stuff with it. Overcharging the turret furthermore clenses 2 conditions.
Elite always supply crate (blast finisher) and you are all set.
It is an awesome class if you like complex and challenging gameplay!

It is rediculous how people here in the forums are expecting the most possible for no or very little money. Have you ever estimated how many employees they have, what the servers cost, how many people have to make a living of that product?

I can not support the philosophy of costiveness.
I payed 50 bucks back when the game got released and got a wonderful, content-rich, well balanced, well maintained product.
Therefore, I think it is more then fair to set a certain price which ensures the game experience will be kept up in the future too.

In the end, you pay more money for new content – so?
It sure can range between 15-50 usd, but in this range, it still would be justified.
I support their strategy, I love the game and I think it is more then fair to pay a certain price for NEW content (only if you like it). All the details will emerge soon so keep calm and carry on in the borderlands!

internal cooldown would make it not being overpowered

Thank you. I really start to like this kit

Thank you for the detailed answers. It really helps. Especially the description of how the acid bomb works. Two more follow up questions:

How do you make sure that the target stays as loong as possible in the acid puddle? Which CC effect is the most efficient in this case?

And how do you cancel the #4 egun leap to only make use of the blast?

Cheers

Just a quick question:
The #3 skill of the E-gun cures conditions only from your teammates – right?
And could you more experienced engineers give me a brief insight of how to use the E-Gun and especially in which build?
Is it a strength/Precision weapon, or does it only make sense to take it in a condi setup?
Thank you in advance

I would vote for a hand-held mini-gun or a portable rocket launcher with a nice skillset.
I kind of feel that the whole idea of elite skills kind of went in the wrong direction…

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That is exactly what I was looking for.
Very good videos, do more!
Just one hint: could you replay some of your harder combos (scepter full burst) in slow motion? It is otherwise hard to “read”

watched them all!
But I would like to see some gameplay with lets say S/D, D/F, S/F.
There are many build guides with alternative weapon combinations but no one uses these to roam in WvW these days.
I am just asking because almost every roaming video contains cantrips and D/D.
While it may be just reality that this is the most viable combination, I as a unexperienced WvW player would love to see how peopls utilize our other weapons.

Anyone challenge accepted???
xD

FGS <3
I would love to see some roaming with other weapon combinations.

Any WvW Staff Builds?

Allie Murdock.8152:

Just FYI – We’ll be rolling out another round of Collaborative Development soon. I’ll be working with the balance designers to help get some well-rounded feedback from you all. Start thinking about what 3 things you would change, and keep an eye out for the CDI thread!

Thank you for your information – we will have a look!

you are alone – no one reads this wall of text

I feel like sophisticated gameplay gets even more enhanced. I like difficult combos with our class – but imagine that with quickness. Even Churning earth seems interessting for WvW now… Ether renewal would be great.
Nice synergy with signet of restoration and autoattacks – that would make auto attacks worth it!
But as already mentioned: it depends on ICD, duration of quickness and casttime…

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

phaeris.7604:

Assassin.7890:

60 sec cooldown like warrior signet of rage would be great.
I think you can role through your attunements and once every minute you can do something unpredictable.
Nice

So I can have quickness for 36 seconds?

Did you even think about what you typed?. How exactly would you know when that minute cooldown was going to happen? It would definately be unpredictable, even the ele using it wouldn;t be able to predict when it would go off.

No idea what you are talking about, do you even know?
Hes talking about the cool down of the active.
You would NOT have 36seconds of quickness.

The passive would become unusable when the active is used, unless traited which is 30 point earth trait.

+1 thanks