Guild Wars 2

Dedlaw.9130:

I’m going to have to disagree with Beetlezombie on the usefulness of Elixer Gun. Just as a support tool it gives you a stun break, a AoE condition cleanser with a minor heal and a retreat option. Secondary things like weakness, cripple, poison and condition cleansing for allies makes it a extremely useful multi-purpose support tool.

I’ll agree with him on not using too many kits, although I’d rather say don’s use JUST kits. 2 kits can still be more than viable to use with no hassle. 3 if you include Med kit.
But keep your third utility slot open for a emergency tool

Where did I say EG wasn’t useful?

Since OP started with the fact he was having difficulties leveling and doing SOLO stuff, I was giving him my personal views and experiences while leveling. No where did I say my way was the best or whatever.

And now there’s two of you talking about group utility and making sure you ’don’t slack’ by ‘gimping’ your playstyle in groups … or else.

When I’m in a guild group and we do a new dungeon, I will slot EG. For the extra utility it provides. When we do stuff we have done many times before, I don’t, because the already existing experience overrules the necessity of EG.

And I do believe I actually wrote in a post earlier that it was one of the options of the engineer to build a support role with EG for condition removal etc, so it’s not like I said screw the EG.

My views still stand, as a new engineer, focus on settling into a playstyle YOU alone like best. And work with that. Then by the time you get the hang of it, you can start by swapping slots if the situation requires it.

Unless you’re an uber player and can do all that in your sleep. Then you can come on the forums and call the rest of us mortals baddies.

Forestnator.6298:

Efficiencly … yes ofc you can play what ever u want to. But your freedom ends where others freedom starts – means: don’t let other have to compensive your bad playstyle.

Again, I did not say if ppl don’t swap kits like hell they are baddies.

Yeah you really though about what you wrote there …

Also, maybe you should either go play World of warcraft or roll a 100b Warrior. Your attitude fits perfectly.

Are you the kind of player that rejects Rangers from parties without question? Because having a Ranger on the team adds nothing a guardian doesn’t do better? And more efficient …

Meh, I’m out of this discussion. Have fun with your efficient playstyle. And I hope you will survive having to compensate for other peoples playstyle in group play. Poor you … we should all give you a hug.

Forestnator.6298:

I don’t agree. Kit swapping is a very important part of engineer – don’T try to focus to stay in one kit. That’s bad playstyle for engineer.

Ok, lets agree not to start with the “If you don’t play exactly how I think all engineers should play then they are doing it bad”.

Kit swapping is important, if you focus on it and make your build / playstyle gain from it.

However, the engineer imo is very capable to not have to do that. As I am doing. I’m focusing on flamethrower with elixers for might. And I like to kite using the thumper turret or shrapnel mine.

It suits my playstyle just fine. I may not be the bestest DPS like a faceroll warrior, I may not be a walking god like a guardian, but it works just fine …. for me personally.

Could I be using the bomb kit for more stuff that goes boom? Yes I could.
Could I be using the tool kit for some extra melee closeness options? Yes I could.
Could I be using the EG for support stuff? Yes I could.

But I don’t have to. That is the beauty of the trait system and the way the profession works. You don’t have to do jack kitten .

And how dare you presume to know the prefered playstyle for every engineer out here? Seriously??

@OP

Last piece of advice. Try to find out what works for you, and for the love of god don’t ever listen to people that say “If you’re not playing how I play you’re a baddie”.

Yes there are super optimal builds out there for every profession, that can squeeze the most DPS or whatever out of your class. But it may not be the best build for you, or the most fun build for you.

digitalruse.9085:

1.) Survivability in PvE

2.) Kit Swapping

3.) Turrets

4.) Weapons

5.) Elixers

6.) Builds/Traits

1. Don’t try and use to many kits at the same time. This is the exact mistake I made while I was leveling. For some reason I felt that having the EG was an absolute must as an engineer.

And because of that I had to constantly switch back and forth to grenades and so … making me loose focus on the fighting often.

I decided to stick to one kit as a weapon and really focus on that. And it is really showing. When there is a pack of 5 or 6 mobs with a veteran or so I just charge in with my flamethrower and melt them to the ground. (I just leveled 80 btw and my gear is still pretty crappy).

But just having one weapon kit to focus on really improved my gameplay.

2. Answered on 1

3. The healing turret is nice, but it is best used like this, drop it, overcharge it, and pick it up a little after. That way you get a 15 second cooldown on it.

4. Yep we have kits, no weapon swapping. The shield is nice, but I think more for pvp. Sure you can work with it in pve, but that is extra burden on your rotation and so.

5. While leveling I woudn’t worry to much about elixers, unless you are going for the flamethrower

6. The engineer is already a heavy hybrid profession imo. So mixing it all up is doable, but you might be better of focussing on a specific build. Like a grenadier, a flamethrower, a support healer with EG and elixers/condition removal …. They are all very different playstyles. Trying to mix these up together is … difficult.

Hey there, I’m kinda new to the game as well, and had the same issues with my Engineer when I started. I’ve learned a lot and maybe this will help :-)

1.) Kiting and more kiting.

I don’t know what kit you use as your main weapon (flamethrower, grenades …) but I for instance use the flamethrower as a main weapon. In combination with the Charr racial ability Shrapnel mine. The mine slows down mobs, and by doing this all the time I have little trouble kiting mobs in little circles while hozing them down with fire.

2.) Is the purpose of kits to keep them rotating constantly?

Depends on what your setup is, and how your playstyle is, but I don’t really switch that much in kits (in solo PvE).

3.) Turrets.

Don’t let the negative comments get to you. Again, using turrets is cool if you can fit them into your playstyle. Like I said above, I really like kiting mobs, and therefor slowing mobs down is totally awesome for me. When I roam the PvE zones solo I often use the thumper turret (traited with -30% dmg intake), and it is a huge benefit to me.

I use it alot when I pull more than I can chew, and on champions that little turrets often gives me those extra couple of seconds I need to break away.

Again, turrets really require you to fit them into your playstyle.

4.) Equipped weapon

I have the rifle equipped and I use it only for the net ability.

5.) Potions.

Also require you to invest heavily into them. But during leveling, they kinda feel underwhelming. At level 80 for instance, as a flamethrower engineer, they are awesome (for might stacking).

6.) Skills & Traits.

My advice woud be, search and evaluate what your playstyle is, and then build your traits around that playstyle.

I rarely switch traits, and sometime skills when i’m in a dungeon.

7.) Stats

Depends on your setup. You will often read here that in PvE all that matters is damage and all beserker gear is the bestest … I say ‘meh’.

If you are more comfortable with extra vitality and thoughness, then so be it.

Vayne.8563:

All of the things everyone above has listed is WHY I play Guild Wars 2. Because in games where that’s the norm, I don’t end up staying.

Yep, the farmers and end game progression people are definitely unhappy, and they’re not shy to say so. Okay.

That doesn’t make Guild Wars 2 a bad game. That makes Guild Wars 2 a good game for some people. The very things you detest are the very things that I look forward too.

Take the complaints about bashing pinatas.

If you go and bash every single pinata to get an achievement all at once, it’s boring as hell. If you bash some pinatas every single time you go to LA within the time limit of the festival, you’ll probably get the achievment for it without grinding.

You could stand and farm projectors on day one when everyone was doing it, or just sort of roam around and get them WHILE playing. You don’t have to farm these things. Most of them you’ll get.

I get it. You want to sit in Orr and run the same event chains over and over. And I’m sad that you can’t do it. I’m not saying that in just either. I wish you could play that way…but that you can’t doesn’t make Guild Wars 2 a bad game. It makes it a game unsuited to your play style.

Where as Rift and WoW are totally unsuited to mine.

Well put.
I play only an hour, two hours per evening, and this is by far the most relaxed game i have played. Totally loving it.

Sweet. Thanks for the tips guys.

Seras.5702:

That being said, flamethrower deals more damage as a power/prec weapon rather than condition.

Really? So i have been focussing on the wrong stats then as a flamethrower engie… so power/precision/thoughness is best?

Thanks again :-)

I’m going to try the Mystic Forge next time. Good tip :-)

I have tried the Grenade kit, but to be honest, my wrist started to complain. And indeed the Flamethrower looks pretty slick, and it works with the mines and flameturret. Often when I have a pack on me they concentrate on my flame turret or healing turret, which gives me plenty of time to spread the fires of doom :-).

That’s what I really like about this game, the way you can adjust your profession and playstyle. Sure I may not be super best damage, but it works. And so far I haven’t seen anyone go mental over it (not like in that other big fantasy MMO game, brr … the horrors there …).

I’ve been reading up on the wiki a bit, and phew, they don’t call it a legendary for nothing.

Many thanks again!

I kinda had the same problem. Tried all the different professions, and at a point I always started to not like it anymore.

Until now, I have an Engineer at level 60, and I’ve been playing it exclusive.

I like the fact that it is very diverse. The different kits you can use make it interesting all the time. And also so different. An Engineer is like a couple of professions packed in one.

If you read the forums here a bit there are a couple of very negative things about Engineers, and that they are not as good as other etc. That is probably true, but I think this is the trade-off you get for being so versatile.

Also, Engineer has some nice buff and support options with elixers and the elixer gun. And you can focus on healing as well.

/end of engineer-promo-talk :-)

Thank you guys for all the answers :-) It really helps.

Up until now I’ve been salvaging everything possible, so I guess I’m stacked with stuff I don’t even know why I have it.

Some other questions I didn’t think of earlier:

1- Living story

What exactly is that? Is it content only for this patch? Does it go away and never to come back? (comparable to episodes in STO)? Also, is it only for level 80 players?

2- Personal story

I’ve done a bit of the story and it is really cool. Is it better to wait to complete it at maximum level?

3- I’m running around as an Engineer, and I like to use the dancing flamethrower combat style :-)

Actually what that means is I have no freakin idea what I’m doing most of the time. I ride with the flamethrower, the flame-turret and the scrap mine thingy (Charr racial).

So I do pretty decent delayed damage to stuff in the word, and I believe I need to focus on gear that has condition damage right? I also chose to focus a bit on thoughness, because the traits where you get 200 extra TH while wielding it sounds nice.

ghost.3208:

Hope this helps and welcome!! (although you have reached a high level xD)

Yeah, it’s amazing what one can achieve with a flamethrower and a couple of mines :-) (while running away and screaming murder)

Hello everyone, im pretty new to all this and ive got a whole bunch of questions involving the game. Im currently playing an engineer level 60.

I met some very nice people during the various travels of my character, and they bombarded me with terms and information, making me more confused.

1. Do you need a crafting profession to get exotic gear?
2. I finished an area the other day (100%) and got rewarded with some yellow items. So i finished another area today, but this time i did not get anything. Why not?
3. Someone talked to me about legendary thingies. Do you need special crafting training for this?
4. When i get items from killing things i usually salvage it. Would i be better of selling it?
5. Im on the gunnars hold server, is there a way to find a guild ingame? Like a guild browser thingie?
6. Is there a way to see your latency ?

Thats it for now. Thanks for reading.