Guild Wars 2

i sincerly hope you are joking ^^ (and not too funny)
i guess you take your nonfactor-superbad-build and think all traits you dont use atm are bad? yes?

Its very nice/convenient in open world pve – but as stated, you just do nothing but stack might and stab – which is not enough for any other game mode.

because you cant play it with one finger and your face.

Haralin.1473:

Cures.7451:

Daralii.8940:

kubetz.3058:

Balance patch is planned for December. I expect skill changes and lot of bugfixes then. Fingers crossed.

I’m really just expecting hammer nerfs. They balance the game around PvP, and that’s the only game mode where scrapper’s strong.

Well thats the only game mode where it matters, not? you can play pve naked, and [KING] had what 4? engineers in their raid. Phineas downed the first boss with a (strange) scrapper build.

It matters in WvW too

you’re right, sry. i tend to forget that exists.

Daralii.8940:

kubetz.3058:

Balance patch is planned for December. I expect skill changes and lot of bugfixes then. Fingers crossed.

I’m really just expecting hammer nerfs. They balance the game around PvP, and that’s the only game mode where scrapper’s strong.

Well thats the only game mode where it matters, not? you can play pve naked, and [KING] had what 4? engineers in their raid. Phineas downed the first boss with a (strange) scrapper build.

You just cant go wrong with viper’s.

go away! No, really – leave my beloved engineer alone!

Darkheron.6271:

Karma.3064:

I tried scrapper about three times before i finally made the push to finish the elite spec. The first few times i just couldn’t get into it. Figuring out the utility skills were a real pain in the tail ((because you know, its a char scrapper XD)). Finally finished the spec itself last night and i was mostly disappointed as i just couldn’t figure out the sustain on it. I spent about 3 or 4 hours yesterday, sitting in front of a champion hero point with a buddy as we tweaked builds and tried new things until i finally came across a set up i enjoyed and was able to solo Champion mobs fairly easily.

Since then i’ve done some fractals, map bosses, and more HoT content and i actually am enjoying Scrapper. Granted, the only Gyro i’m running is Bulwork and my heal/2 other utilities are Elixers, its still a fun brutish class to play. My elite skill i’m not too sold on. Mostly using Supply create for the medkits and possible healing turret drop if i don’t need a range option.

I would love to hear your build and gear.

My perspective is from PvE and WvW, but personally, I find the hammer in particular unviable, in that including it basically ruins everything. Much of this is because it has no synergy with any long range weaponry, and in the harder HoT content there are many, many times when it is very advantageous if not required, yes required not suggested to have a a 1200+ range weapon. What am I supposed to do about this? I could load a Mortar but that is more of a condition weapon and doesn’t work well with any of the Hammer builds I’ve tried.

I supposed I could just run out of combat, respec, and load in a rifle every 10 mins or so, then reload the hammer and respec back to hammer but no… no I’m not doing that. What I would really like is the ability to weapon swap to the rifle. Probably never gonna happen, but that would fix a lot of things imo.

I’m seriously asking. I love my engineer and was super excited about using the Scrapper/Hammer combination but I am really struggling. What rankles even more is that my Revenant’s hammer, a non-elite spec weapon, absolutely dominates the scrapper hammer in nearly every way.

Help.

mind to remind me where i needed 1200 range in hot? i wasnt aware and accidently played all maps with my new shiny hammer!

well, the engineer is even more ‘piano-ey’ than the ele, and has, when built and played right, one of the highes dps.

can you pls elaborate on what exactly your problem is?
the fight to claim the hall?

Kirk.3086:

But helicopters much better then turrents…
Anyone want get some turrents at the build (not healing)?

as you are talking about them alot: they’re called turrets.

erm. who is “we”?
talk for yourself mate.
i want nothing more than a trinity in this game – and i’m not alone.

reading this forums now and then makes me really sad.

and did you run to the forums complaining about content and then deleted your message too?

dont get hit then?

you know, if everyone would be able to understand easy mechanics, we, the rest, wouldnt have the satisfying feeling of accomplishment when understanding easy mechanics. ty for not even nearly understanding easy mechanics!

best path yet. /thread

the best dungeon for now in gw2. ty anet!

Fortus.6175:

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

. I can tell you that 0/5/30/30/5 is bad. L.

SAY WHAT?!?!?!? Ok, you seem to be pretty uninformed, so let me teach you a little in the ways of the guardian; guardian have a lot of synergy with traits and their damage doesnt come from burst, but rather from long DPS and enhancing the DPS and survival of allies which on the long run make up for even greater DPS.

If you want big numbers sure you could throw a sword and go 30 into radiance and if you want scepter you could throw 20 into zeal, but you would be giving up a lot of survival and boons for some mere extra damage which is not worh it at the end.

Here, let me show you how skilled and smart guardians go around this build; It is all about synergy:

As you probably [hopefully] know, Altruistic Healing heals you a small amount for each individual boon you apply (meaning 3 might stacks = 3 independent heals), a lot of the survival comes from timing these with some effects, example, in this build, F1 applies blind to nearby foes as well as 3 might stacks to all allies, that means a total of 15 boons, plus a blind. If you are dumbly using it everytime available you are wasting healing and defensive debffs. This build isnt about soaking damage, but rather negating it all together, or healing it off. Honor gives you vigor on crits, you can literally have perma vigor which means you get an AoE heal on a 1:1 healing ration (you have 300 already from Honor) everytime you roll, not only that, when endurance is low you get a flipping 10% damage increase, so you are encouraged to roll, A LOT.

Pure of Voice is not only condition cleansing, but also CONDITION CONVERTION, and if that wasnt enough it applies party wide, with double effect on you. Here, let me show you how important this is; in TA there are these plants which apply a stacking poison cloud, poison increases in duration, so what do you do? You pop a shout and all that poison duration gets convered to….wait for it…. regeneration (with a converted duration based on remaining poison duration), so not only did you take away the debuff, but also applied a long lasting regen.

Valor gives you 300 toughness, coupled with Honor’s 300 vitality and 300 healing power your effective health goes up by a LOT, and if that wasnt enough, toughness is converted into precision thanks to Valor which translate to more critical chance, aka more vigor and more healing and dodge defense.

They all synergy perfectly, it is what I used to beat Liadri, her fumble and cripples were converted into Vigor AND swiftness, which is like the most totally awesome buffs agaisnt her.

Hope you learned something about guardians, Im always willing to teach newer player

this is so embarrassing it hurts. I didnt even know people are still running AH builds in pve – but such a crappy one? But if you need toughness and condition cleanses you tell everything about you anyway

to get serious: what guang said. and the build is not only bad but dumb too.

and @topic: you find the best builds at gw2guru. not here, believe me.

Lafiel.9372:

Daecollo.9578:

I am sure a lot of the feedback on the forums right now is hard to read as a developer, we are merciless critics.

I can however understand the villain Scarlet in your minds when you created her with all the story was a good villain, however when you just came into it and saw this lady who is suppost to be a genius, doing all these dumb things… It just does not seem believable.

I actually like Scarlet and wanted her to be a successful character, but even after reading everything about her (which hould of been in the game 3-4 months prior.) she feels rushed. She could of been so much more, and the story could of as well.

This is why you don’t rush content. I know your trying to keep a good schedule of new things to do every 2 weeks, but why do them for the story when its … well.. I don’t want to say anything that would make a developer cry, because I know how much effort people put into story making.

Na, Anet won’t find it hard to read because they just won’t agree with it. They basically will all think, we can’t please everyone, the forum complaints are a minority, the majority is still happy. And their bases of this is their sales and server population but that will change with time…

And they are spot on with it. do you really think anyone at anet that is not specifically paid for it opens this forum? ^^ i wouldnt.

doing invasions on OF just fine.

on GH we got zergs with 300+ peple atm. and you can see each and everyone and dont lag

Pure win as always!!

I bought it. its convenient
And it talks. And i throw money at ANET with lesser excuses.

I want to fly those ships – take a look at Allods!!

+1 to support positive threads!
i am with you OP

+1

bring more of this!

there are really all sorts of mental disorders crowded in such games o_0

its great indeed. and it must be horrble for the devs to see the stream of tears in their forums every day – just because the 99% that arent winers are busy playing. thats why i like positive threads

but: the camera is poor.

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/82395-guide-to-grenades-in-pve/

all you need to know. atm id choose zerker over condition (in dungeons)

edit: sry, just saw it was posted already. cant be posted enough.

On the first day everything is always veeery impossible for you guys
in some days, when better players show you how easily its beaten, only half of you will rage on. and the other half will start copying builds from people that know what theyre doing. Or didn’t you beat the trials t4 in the end? if not, this is just not meant for you. go on.

Eleir.9325:

My main point is. There are a very few and select number of actually decent looking weapons in the game.

that may be your point – but youre wrong

SD engineer basically oneshots the runners. you dont want to hear that i guess, but its actually easy :P

to be exact, you only need your beloved zerker gear and this lovely build: http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/84143-build-lets-rock/

edit: fogot to say that i love the trials. there cant be enough content that cant be beaten by everyone. i dont care about how or with how much effort. another great thing delivered, anet!

Nanashi.6297:

Cures.7451:

digitalruse.9085:

It took all day. Literally, but finally solo’ed it. It is a totally broken event. Hopefully they fix it so others don’t have to suffer. Here was my final build out:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcQQFAUl0picX7STF17IyoHkWnNhgeYX5lfJqg+B-jAyAEFgkXR0YbDFRjVVDoWwUlIKXUkittenFCY0EA-e

why do you think its broken?

because you need one special skill set and equipment to do it. this event is far away from the usual design choice of anet. it’s definitely not able to do it with any traits active nor any equipment.

they cannot tell me they managed to do this event the way it is meant to. there are way too many veterans to survive 7 minutes. and killing the veterans takes more time than the time you have until the next plunderer comes.

but you know that t3 and t4 are considereed grp instances?

mzt.3270:

Drakkon.4782:

Is there a question here? I’m not seeing one in that wall of text. Could you edit it down and try to be a little more concise in your inquiry? If you’re going to use the Q/A format, you’re going to need to actually ask a Q.

The question is very clear and concise, I am asking why we are slow as well has having a poor health pool and medium armor.

easy to answer: you are wrong

digitalruse.9085:

It took all day. Literally, but finally solo’ed it. It is a totally broken event. Hopefully they fix it so others don’t have to suffer. Here was my final build out:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcQQFAUl0picX7STF17IyoHkWnNhgeYX5lfJqg+B-jAyAEFgkXR0YbDFRjVVDoWwUlIKXUkittenFCY0EA-e

why do you think its broken?

best vuln stacker, one of the best aoe dps, tons of blast finishers, 15+ might stacks sustained alone. im often asking myself what those other pitty classes do all day :P

engineer was never bad in the first place.
same role as everyone: dps (one of the best aoe dps classes) + vuln (best vuln stacker) and might stacking.

in wvw you kill stuff in hgh builds.

rampager – cond pve
rabid – cond wvw
zerker – power/crit pve

there are no other viable gear choices sadly

best kit ever – go away!

its down to personal taste id say. there are those of us (including me) that couldnt live without the target ring. and others turned it of on day 1. imo its easier to aim with the ring, but one click more in an all out click fest.

SD builds are very fun – this is the best current layout imo: http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/84143-build-lets-rock/

its all flavor. youll find the numbers over at .guru – iirc rampager tops zerker dps wise a bit, but is very dependant on you beeing the only condition applier. im running zerker in pve, rampager in wvw, where conditions are clearly better. jewelry is always zerker. SD is fun, but far behind grenades dps wise if you count in the 25 vuln stacks = party dmg.
HGH in wvw, might stacking by blasts in pve. sadly there isnt anything more to say about (efficient) engineer setups. all else just wastes a dps spot if you got a good grp.

why would you use condition gear with FT? FT = zerker.

erm … why would anyone die in that dungeon?
And there are non-zerker guards out there? o_0
Why would i take you in there?

lol. beeing bad at a class is one side and totally forgiveable. Coming to the forums and opening a thread about how bad you are at a class and wanting to have it changes is a … bold move.

“It’s something we’re absolutely aware of and want to address in the future, one of my main characters is an engineer so I feel ya on this one. My poor quaggan backpack is visible like 2% of the time I play as I kit swap, never mind my weapon skins.

We’re currently focusing our engineering (programmers, not guys with net guns) resources that could work on solutions to issues like kits/skins on major systems that address issues higher priority and wider reaching like lag in large battles, LFG, custom arenas, spectator mode and so on but this issue is absolutely on our radar.

As always, please post your ideas of what you’d like to see solution wise, we love to see the fun ideas y’all come up with too!"

The only “lie” i see in there is that actually no one is interested in your ideas. What I do see is a troubling spam of some roleplayers that got left behind ^^ Equip the popgun like all the pros and be done with it.

well, everything to get rid of you pathetic whiners is a good move from ANET. Im waiting for a REAL nerf to be able to read these forums again …

SD Rifle Build.

http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-keyboards-keypads/razer-nostromo
http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-mice/razer-naga