Guild Wars 2

All. Engineer is fantastic when played properly.

I have several builds posted that work post patch on my website and videos to go with most of them.

Engi is still very much viable for roaming and organized WvW play.

My build for roaming has not changed since the patch and it still works extremely well.

Please see my signature for more information.

Elmo Benchwarmer.3025:

A Scrapper is not an Engineer. Many moons ago the Engineer was a very enjoyable profession. The Scrapper on the other hand is an abomination. It doesn’t even get close to how fun Engineers used to be.

One of my main form-up builds uses Scrapper and is highly effective.

That’s with kit-swapping and all the fun keyboard dancing you’re used too.

Look over some of the builds I have posted in my signature. ?

No.

Fun fact, it took almost three years to get rid of the awful hobo sacks, so we consider ourselves lucky.

I’ve been rocking a Charr Engi since launch! Best Engi!

Gremix.2514:

Just looked at the video.

They devalued the skins and auras that people wanted to work towards so badly that everyone (your not the first one I’ve seen that’s linked videos on Reddit and here) is now resorting to posting and keeping YouTube videos of all of their Tribulation world completions as proof of not resorting to buying them.

Not that I blame you for trying to salvage what you worked hard for…

Congrats on learning and running Tribulation!

gg ArenaNet.

I actually streamed the entire event! I did all 16×6 levels via stream.

The video are my best timed runs; even though I’m a fat charr and not great at jumping. ;_;

CrashTestAuto.9108:

Dash.8027:

I’m not a (storm) wizard, but an aura I can purchase on the AH for little to no effort shouldn’t outshine something that took days of playing, timing and fighting glitchy coding (I’m looking at you W2Z2..) to get.

Don’t worry, ANet have made it so you can get these auras for gold and little to no effort too.

So that’s a fix, right?

That announcement actually made me quite upset.

There should be no method in which Tribulation can be handed to a player with no effort. That defeats the exact purpose of the mode…

I play a full-size, fat charr and did all of the tribulation levels 16 times.

Some of these zones took me 30-60 minutes each run in World 2.

I’m not a (storm) wizard, but an aura I can purchase on the AH for little to no effort shouldn’t outshine something that took days of playing, timing and fighting glitchy coding (I’m looking at you W2Z2..) to get.

Hopefully the red/blue auras get a rework, intensity and size because on my fat charr… they’re barely visible to anyone.

Literally, I had a guildmate not notice I even had the auras active..

@ 1:20:00 you can see the auras overlapping and this is the only angle they actually can be seen in on a Charr.

- Sauer

IM NOT LOGGING OUT UNTIL I HAVE ALL THE THINGS.

;_;

PS: My full size charr is my SAB Tribulation mode character. RIP.

Pride.1734:

Dash.8027:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb-ziDXhd2I

I use mortar quite often for its fields, ranged damage and orbital strike. It’s far from useless and has a place in many builds; especially for WvW.

Just a tip for you and another nice thing about the mortar. You can fire it behind you. So if you hold down the button you have set to looking behind you you can run at full speed while shooting the mortar and dont need to backpeddle.

I did just that on multiple occasions throughout the video.

Walking backwards was more for the AI trail behind for my Gyro to do an AOE interrupt/daze with field as the Gyro moves slower when walking backwards so it would feed into the outnumbered zerg advancing on us.

I use mortar quite often for its fields, ranged damage and orbital strike. It’s far from useless and has a place in many builds; especially for WvW.

Stand The Wall.6987:

ahhh thanks. that clears things up considerably. and begs the question, why make a skill so wonky? anyways thanks for the explanation.

so another gadgets buff thread chaith?
you know you want to.

It operates very similar to a Revenant’s Unrelenting Assault, where it’s only able to be countered when a strike is occurring. It has to have those breaks in order to have counter play and not be completely OP. You’re getting 1000 range with 3 strikes that’s also a leap finisher on a 12 second cooldown.

It’s strong and the evade works very well in conjunction with Scrapper line “Perfectly Weighted.”

Shredder Gyro’s Toolbelt ability can be useful in an interrupt build, but as a Gyro I feel its not made very well and could use a rework. If it dealt damage like a guardian trap/necro well.. then maybe it’d have some more use to it.

Healing Turret gives you two water fields to blast, Medic Gyro gives you one.

Healing turret can blast on itself without using another skill and you can use it’s F1 ability with another blast for more waters.

Medic Gyro has it’s F1 ability as a mobile water field but requires an external blast and it’s main heal has no field until it explodes (if traited).

Basically, they’re different uses for different requirements.

I find that Healing Turret is more effective in an organized roaming/blob.

As of March 3, 2016, The Engineer Handbook is officially being maintained by me. Wolfineer has stopped playing Guildwars 2 and passed it off to me.

The new website URL is : http://www.sheriffsauer.com

I’ll be updating it and posting builds, along with videos. Thank you!
- Sauer

Neo Annubis.7429:

Oh you guys haven’t seen the 80 area yet? If you need an invite for a tour, hit me up

#15minutes

If [Os] was a PvE guild, this would have had a dev response by now.

Whoever chose the music for this video did an amazing job.

:3

:33333

/10charr

mbhalo.1547:

That 0 in 40 looks shopped to even a naked eye, come on.

I feel there’s a Taylor Swift song for this comment..

#15minutes

/10charr

Solomon Darkfury.3729:

Dash.8027:

Solomon Darkfury.3729:

At Omne- Just in case you were curious or doubted I included some screens if you or anyone else for that matter would like the FULL tour I’d be happy to show you! Just message me in game!

You realize that’s the jumping puzzle that was used to get to where the video shows, right?

That video is coming this weekend and has already been shown by other people. The footage shown in the OP has not been seen or displayed anywhere else yet.

If you took the JP to get there, god did you take the LONG way… Would you like me to show you a shortcut that takes literally 10 seconds to get into the area in your video?

No; we already know about that but we’re not going to show an exploit when a legitimate path exists.

Solomon Darkfury.3729:

At Omne- Just in case you were curious or doubted I included some screens if you or anyone else for that matter would like the FULL tour I’d be happy to show you! Just message me in game!

You realize that’s the jumping puzzle that was used to get to where the video shows, right?

That video is coming this weekend and has already been shown by other people. The footage shown in the OP has not been seen or displayed anywhere else yet.

Dara Potocska.8196:

#TeamGildedHollow

Well done! I hope you guys had fun!

Thanks for the Confirmation.

:3

@Dara Potocska.8196

#worldfirst

/10charrs

[Os] Iron Kodan Champions 2014-2015

2016?

It has dinosaurs.. so that’s a plus.

The design of the new BL maps basically is a PvE Karma train to let those players feel like WvW players.

WvW players DO NOT LIKE THIS MAP.

If you took a poll right now, I’d wager most of my wealth that it’d be overwhelmingly negative from people that only play WvW as their primary game mode.

Conversely, many of the PvE players I know love the design; we call that a clue.

I made a large post in another thread about this but it boils down to:

1) Getting places is like a line at Disney; long and winding, only making short distances seem extremely long.
2) Way too many mobs. Most open field fights are going to happen where these veteran and champ mobs are because those are the only actual open fields to fight in….
3) 10% dmg incoming and outgoing buffs have NO PLACE IN WVW. STOP IT. STOP.
4) Fight guilds are already becoming rare. Your game mode is going to be left with PvE players that need karma only. WvW players are going to start leaving this game for other games that offer actual PvP content in the same fashion. (Crowfall)
5) It fills me with sadness to know that the game mode I love is being turned into a PvE oriented game style where guilds can literally never see each other and karma train instead of fighting.
6) Keeps / Towers can have siege placed where attackers have no choice but to throw bodies to the blood gods and die because siege are located at impossible places, across narrow beams and PvE environmental blockers that have no place in actual WvW. One-Three people on ACs can hit 1-2-3 with no skill and stop an entire entering force? …. ….
7) It’s too late to scrap it. I’ve been a fan since launch, spending over $5,000+ in US currency to Gems to support the game and I am no longer able to justify giving my money over to a company that has systematically killed the only game mode I enjoy.

I came to post this exact thing.

I wanted to love it because it’s beautiful; but then I played it.

1) Awful terrain for any skill that uses movement (Warrior Hammer F1)
2) Skills that arc are useless in 50% or more of the map (Engi nades with grenadier)
3) Entirely too many chokes and nowhere near enough flat surface area for Guild on Guild fights. The open spaces are all filled with red mobs or debris that will mess up the flow of combat and provide rally bot access to otherwise defeated players.
4) It’s too big and the pathing isn’t conducive for roamers or large scale fights.
5) It takes way to long to get anywhere quickly. Narrow beams? Seriously?

If you want to replace EotM, you did a good job.. but this isn’t a Borderlands map.

If the designer was going for a PvE environment that was karma train friendly, they nailed it. As far as something for people who only play WvW; we didn’t want more PvE, we wanted more fights with less siege…

Complaining is the last thing I wanted to do, really. I want to love the new map.

I just can’t. It’s not a map for WvW players. It’s a map that makes PvE players feel like WvW players.

- Sauer

And I accidently my main post. Reworking my script; almost entirely. TY for the help thus far.

Ok, so I found that if I remove the first 3 characters from the returned string, it’ll give me the name of the first guild in the list. I however need to remove the the first 3 from each guildid and have no idea how to go about this.

guildjson = requests.get('https://api.guildwars2.com/v1/guild_details.json?guild_id='+ str(guildid)[3:])

Am I doing this wrong having the .get run the entire string at once?
I’m not the best of coders obviously; any help would be greatly appreciated. I’ve gone all over google and can’t find an answer I understand.

guildjson = requests.get('https://api.guildwars2.com/v1/guild_details.json?guild_id='+ str(guildid)) 
guilddata = guildjson.json()
guildname = guilddata['guild_name'] 

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “D:/guild.py”, line 13, in <module>
guildname = guilddata[‘guild_name’] #account guild information
KeyError: ‘guild_name’

This returns a KeyError. :/ At this point I don’t know what to do to fix it.

Eearslya.6309:

I don’t know much about Python, but one thing that I notice right away is that you’re trying to use both the access_token parameter and a header. You only need one or the other; the page may be failing to load because of this.

If I comment out line lines 10 and 11, it returns the Account Names and Guild IDs, I think the problem is with the array and being challenged for the Guild ID to Guild Name conversation. I have no idea how to make it parse the array and return each guild in another method.

I’m looking for :

Player.1234 – Guild 1 – Guild 2 – Guild 3 – Guild 4 – Guild 5
Player.3456 – Guild 1 – Guild 2 – Guild 3 – Guild 4 – Guild 5
ect.

Right now I’m getting by commenting out lines 10/11 :

Player.1234 [u’5CAD86D7-7A62-4A31-970B-4DFCD0032D27’, u’9BC2F0EE-4D8C-E311-863C-E4115BDF481D’]
Ect.

I play Engineer; not the best but I’m not awful and I have an extremely hard time beating a burn guardian right now. I’ve tried multiple builds and counters.. I found a few builds but they’re so specific that they’re basically useless for any other sort of roaming.

I feel burning is over powered but it’s still not as bad as the PU Mesmer Interrupt meta.

I make weekly Reset Night WvW videos:

If WvW game play is what you’re looking for.

They need to fix it and also add the legendary effects to all of the skills.

Streamers for days! High Flying Streamers!

90 seconds.. seriously? 30 seconds would have been OK, as this made AED usable.. 45 seconds would have been a stretch..

90 seconds?! Can I just have my Grenades at least work properly first before you tear out my heart from being so happy to use healing skills that weren’t healing turret?

;_;

I’m a novice and need help.

Using the new guild API and a guild full of people willing to give me API keys, is there a way to have a single page list each guild that all of my guild members are in using a single click?

Lets say I have 10 people and want to check to make sure my guild is the only guild they’re in; I’d like to be able to have a single page auto-populate with the guild members name and the guilds they’re in, all of the way down my roster.

I don’t need fancy graphics or anything, literally just a list of names and guilds attached to those names.

Please show me the way, API gurus.

Best class in the game. If you’re interested in organized group play WvW, please check out the 100+ reset/roaming videos I have on my channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyQrsJt0g4tPyNtASAYX9pQ

For a single video, this one seems to be popular due to a 15 minute long out numbered garrison fight which starts about 4:30 in : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2bQ-Ifue2g

Also, pistol/shield for almost all builds.

NSP player. If you’d like to see footage of some WvW we have at reset, please see my attached video. ?

6:15 in; major garrison fight that lasts around 15 minutes.

- Sauer

NSP is definitely here!

- Sauer

Ranged Perspective!

We are actively recruiting, please visit the link in the comment of my video for website information.

- Sauer <3

We had one of the best reset fights for Garrison on an enemy BL in a long time and I wanted to share it with the community. <3

Starts 6:15 in.

Here is my Gas Mask Engineer!

Fused Gauntlets, Gas Mask and Magitech with mostly Molten coloring.

Also, level it with the Flamethrower.

Tier 3 Charr.

Abyss, Redemption and Iris.

I don’t agree.

If you want to make content able to be revisited without complete lack of interest, making ALL content challenging is a must.

Next, they should add lvl 80 drop tables for people downscaled from 80 to whatever.

Bam! No more Orr farming culling rage induced rage quits.

Full T3 Armor and Weapons.

99 problems, being a sexy charr isn’t one.