Guild Wars 2

1. It’s not OP

And a newbie Engineer is not going to be annoying for anyone.

As someone who currently runs a variant of this build, i won’t give it out to someone because they just want to knock people back all the time.

Turrets are excellent! The proper use of which will really help you be a better Engineer

As as example, if you have thumper turret (my favorite since it has a stun breaker), rocket turret. You have 5 knockbacks (traited APT), and 4 blast finishers. Meaning if you put down a healing turret, you can detonate your two turrets for an extra 6k healing on TOP of the healing turret itself.

Or you can use those blast finishers with fire bomb for 12 stacks of might, OR the same thing with smoke bomb for 12s of stealth, which can be very useful with toolkit on Skyhammer.

I can obliterate glass cannon builds before they have the ability to do anything. Rifle, Grenade kit, Rocket Turret, Thumper turret. You can unload a sick amount of DPS while they’re immobilized.

EX… Overcharge thumper turret.. Net shot, Grenade Barrage, Tool belt Rocket, Then overcharge shot, jump shot. Anyone that doesn’t have large amounts of toughness will either be dead, or close to it. Save a knock back for a heal interrupt and you wont run into a build that you can’t compete with.

Just a few weeks ago i was running a Burning build where incendiary powder was doing 6k Damage, and flameblast over 9k without might. Problem with condition builds is that every tournament player has plenty of condition removal, and there are some builds you will just never defeat.

I’ve been playing since release in sPvP almost exclusively, and this is so far my favorite build. No Gimmicks, no easily evadable cheap bursts. Straight up high damage, high CC build.

EDIT – My current build: http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=VW70;2cPVg0W6NTFx0;9;4TJ;0J49A58;551-SN;4H7W3H7W35X

I hate Grenades in Spvp, so i never go far into the explosives line. Bottom line is they are just to unreliable to use in such tight fast moving spaces. Been playing a few hours and this update completely killed the DPS on my HGH build. I have to take away either Napalm specialist, cleansing formula 409, or Speedy kits in order to get Incendiary powder.

How did this pass testing? I don’t understand how that change creates build diversity. We went from 3 viable meta builds, now at 2. Grenadier and S/D. Where S/D is still pretty weak.

Plus, how is it that a precision based, condition damage proc. Gets moved to the master line of EXPLOSIVES where that is power and condition duration. That makes the least sense out of all.

I Like this Idea, since they’re cheapening PvP acheivments, give PvPers a way to acquire a legendary. 200k honor and 10G xD

Given Anet’s history I highly doubt there will ever be PvP only skins.

“We felt that using a lot of different abilities to maintain stealth is ok, but re-using the same ability over and over for almost permanent stealth was just bad for the game, especially when gaining large amounts of initiative.”

I read that as we don’t want thieves staying in stealth to regain all their initiative and reset fights.

BTW I wasn’t hating on Thieves, so your lame insult about being an average player is unjustified.

The class was not designed to run away and reset fights. They even say this in the patch notes as their reasons for making the changes.

Competition breeds trash talk, there is nothing wrong with it! Stop QQing and trash talk some back. You can do this without being mean, seriously. Trash talking and verbal abuse are way different. Don’t confuse the two! I like healthy competition, and having a rival really gets my adrenaline pumping to best him, and their team.

If you’re unhappy with the way it is. Then open up team chat, and help with strategy. Be engaged, and supportive. If you don’t say anything, or just complain here.. then it really isn’t helping.. be the example!

100b? HAHAHAHA

Nobody’s been killed by that since the first few months. That’s like getting killed by pistol whip…

Thieves will be fine, though it looks like they are going to need more skill to play. No more coward thieves stealthing and running away to reset the fight when their openers don’t go perfect.

I’m really upset with all these changes. I worked hard and played a lot to get to rank 40, (especially after the crap of everyone getting the same rank points, even though I score way higher than others in most games.)

Now they are going to take away all the glory of being a good PvPer by letting all the PvE script kitties getting all my rank and gear overnight. Gear that took me a year to get.

Though I like being able to get gold when I play, because I don’t do PvE at all.

I have 150k Honor, and 130 Glory boosters. I assume this will be meaningless after the “PvP” patch.

Engineer is meta now, and won’t change after the patch. Moving Incendiary powder to master tier kinda sucks, minor readjustment of builds is all.

What I hope to see is that Rangers and Elementalists will join the meta and push the Hammer Warriors out.

I’m worried about Guardian changes making them OP. I have seen some brutal DPS builds with lots of blocks, and Condition removal. Increasing they’re damage is not a good idea.

Other than that, all classes have “meta” builds that work very well. And this patch doesn’t look like it’s going to hurt or boost anyone that badly. Except for Hammer warriors, yay!

I was sad to hit Rank 40 Last night, and not get any achievement points. Just a tiger box =\

If you PvP and need cheap out of game mechanics to help you. Pick Asura

Anything else really doesn’t matter

stereoblind.4736:

meh, you guys deserve it.

I don’t personally partake in the spawn camping, but cry all you want because it’s a valid tactic to keep you off the map while we upgrade your keeps and towers.

The smarter option, rather than throwing your own meat into the grinder endlessly. Would be to do a breakout in another BL.

More Exploitation fun