Guild Wars 2

Renegade:

1. Kalla’s Utilities and F skills cost too much energy, barely letting you use one utility/ F skill (looking at you energy cost on weapons skills). And underwhelming to boot.

2. Renegade seems to severely lack in survival/mobility when using shortbow and Kalla legend in pvp/wvw.

3. Stun break and healing on the same utility seems too conflicting.

Scourge:

1. Path of corruption trait with Nefarious Favor(F2) on such low cooldown is too strong on pvp/ wvw.

2. F skills’ instant casts leads to instant condition burst as soon as sand shade gets summon on top of enemy player. Some F skill should get SHORT cast time so that condi burst require more set up.

3. The burst potential is so strong with Dhumm Fire trait that I didn’t even have to take Demonic Lore trait and instead take Sand Savant for faster sand shade cooldown/more support. Scourge shouldn’t be able to do massive condi damage on top of strong support. Either one but not both at same time.

4. Torch and scourge utilities lack life force generation when scourge’s survival depends on barrier generated by sand shades. Torch could benefit from some kind of life force generation for being a scourge weapon, since scepter isn’t that great at life force generation either.

5. ~Please~ consider pve and pvp/wvw skill split when balancing.

Many part of the keep construct seem to be bugged at the moment since the recent patch. The fight seems to start too fast for everyone to enter the arena, instantly killing them and isn’t resetting properly upon wipe. Also the projections seem to literally moonwalk away from the fixated player rather than chasing them.

I really, really hope what OP says isn’t the way the game could be headed. I really love this game and it would be so devastating to see it ruin itself. It would be such a shame. Please, please rethink this Anet. None of my friends are happy about the new mining pick and say they’ll have to move on if things get bad.

So please, please. I promise I’ll buy Rox’s Quiver with real money instead of gold (the next time if comes out again) if you rethink this and not head down that horrid path.

It is a wonderful day good people of Ebay and BP, and Kalkz~!~!~! May your wvw day be filled with badges and good fights. Speaking of good fights, hello to GF guild~!~!

I do agree that it has ridiculous range and power (find it funny how I can throw grenades further than a rifle shooting a bullet), and I notice it more in WvW than anywhere else when I play my engineer, which is most of the time. Also it adds bleed and vulnerability so fast that my alt necromancer would be jealous. And it is so useful for defending and siege. Still I would like to convince myself that it isn’t as overpowered as some other class skills. But I can see why you think the nerf is inevitable.

The healing turret seems to have improved after the update and I can see some increase in damage from the kits (not that I feel powerful all of sudden). You can see the damage increase more easily in the low leveled areas than the higher ones.

Still, I actually think engineer is one of the more “fun” classes to play out there. It does have it’s goofy skills and charms. I think engineers are not the “killing machines” like the thieves and mesmers but I do get good laughs here and there while playing it. Especially the mini-finishers in PvP/ WvW. But really, if you are playing for fun and doesn’t care too much about being competitive, I think you should give it a try.

I just did some test with kits in Orr and WvW but I don’t feel any different. Perhaps I was expecting too much? And grenade still out performs the FT it seems.