Guild Wars 2

I love the idea of the engineer, and yes in sPvP I think they work really really well. However the lack of a viable long range weapon is really beginning to hurt my interest in the class in my main environment of PvE.

I know people will shout ‘Grenades!’ but that is not the answer – as a lefie and semi clicker, grenades are almost impossible to use (and since from experience only a small proportion of people go as far as fully keybind everything, that is a lot of people this is causing problems with) – and to be perfectly honest there is no sense in making grenade the only viable long range weapon (logic – you are not going to throw a grenade as far as you can fire a rifle) Far too often in dungeons I am reduced to auto attacking with the rifle!

Some other threads here have suggested a sniper kit, but instantly missed the point. I don’t want to outrange a longbow ranger, I just want to be able to use a viable direct damage weapon build at a reasonable range. Call it a sniper kit if you like, but it would offer the option. Or perhaps a distinct ‘Grenade Launcher’ kit or something which does not rely on keybinds to work.

And others have said ‘well go condition and use pistols’ but that is the point, I don’t always want to play conditions.

It is strange that my mate (a warrior) is complaining that he has to spend loads of boss fights having to be at range using the rifle (wth?) where I, as a supposed ‘gun specialist’ cannot do the same even though it makes far more sense.