Guild Wars 2

athuria.2751:

Gadgets are really specialized in control, which is what makes them harder to make full builds around because the group is not highly diverse. That said, they definitely have their uses if you have/need an extra slot for some control. I carry Throw Mine around since it’s a pretty reasonable cooldown even without Speedy Gadgets (which didn’t work with it before this patch anyway) for a blast finisher, knockback/down, and boon stripper. The others are on a bit long of a cooldown though, but so are a lot of our skills for what they do.

Forget a full build, please discuss the disparity between using a skill slot for a gadget over a kit. What I would like to know is if the gadgets in their current iteration warrant a skill slot over a kit. And do the developers feel that the gadgets are underdeveloped?

bromi.7809:

EVEN if they reduced the cooldown to 5 seconds

I’m sorry did you just say that on demand 5s cd launch would not best grenade kit?
Ah, you.

Even if they did make it 5 seconds, in a 1 v 1 situation, the mines can be evaded. The grenades have an advantage in that the frost grenades can be used to create a buffer in a 1 v 1 situation. The mine has a terribly small radius. But for the sake of considering, let’s say it was 10 seconds. Would that make it more viable in that slot?

I agree. The throw mine has differences, but as you said, would anyone really choose it over the grenade kit? The same could be said of all the different gadgets. Would you choose the ram over the flamethrower? Or the shoes (either pair) over the elixir gun? Or the goggles for that matter over any of the Elixirs? Let’s hypothesize and say that all the gadget’s had their coo ldowns reduced to 10 seconds? Would that make them worth slotting over a kit or elixir?

I feel like cooldowns are a good start, but since kits offer 5 additional skills to use which have an array of possible uses, I think gadgets should offer a little something more, even if they intend to bring the cooldowns down. I can’t see Throw Mine as ever being more applicable to use over the Grenade kit in any circumstance, EVEN if they reduced the cooldown to 5 seconds. Perhaps an on hit effect which enhances your rifle or pistols. For example a passive effect for your rifle skills. Every third skill shoots an explosive mine round that detonates on impact causing bleeding or some such. What do you guys think?

I haven’t been playing Guild Wars 2 very long and I don’t do much PvP or WvW or SPvP or whatever all those acronyms mean, but I haven’t seen many posts on here about viable Gadgets usage for the engineer. Does anyone use gadgets or does the flexibility of kits outweigh the small limitations of our gadgets?

Would the developers care to comment? Do they see the gadgets as a useful and meaningful part of our skills or are they mere novelties used to fill in space?

Does anyone have any suggestion for a gadget build?

Sorry to hear that. I wish they had a trial for him to try, but I don’t think it comes around to often.

I want to purchase a digital copy for a friend as a gift. Is there any way to gift Guild Wars 2 to a friend?