Guild Wars 2

Burtnik.5218:

Nautix.6385:

Burtnik.5218:

Nautix.6385:

Shiro’s skill actually works even if you activate it then invoke another legend.

So does Glint heal.Your point? If you have to use second healing skill to actually survive then you just gave me a proof that Shiro healing ability is terrible.

My point is that every other profession has 1 heal on 1 timer. Revenant gets two heals on two timers.
On other professions, you can’t just use the heal then switch to a different heal and use that. Basically Shiro + Glint or Shiro + Jalis or even Glint + Jalis is supposed to be the same one heal for any other profession.

Shiro’s heal is absolutely fine, it’s inconvenient as it’s not a traditional heal and requires some preparation to actually use effectively. Try using it at 70% hp instead of 20% and see the difference.

Other professions have stronger heals tho. Even played engineer? Healing turret is insane. The thing is you telling me to use it at 70% hp instead of 20%, its cool, i know how it works. Now howered tell me what in situation when fight drags on, you are at 20% hp, your second healing skill is on cd along with UA and Shiro healing just came off cd while your second heal still has 17cd.

In this situation Shiro heal is useless, inst it? You can cast it for 2k heal, run around in hope you will kite long enough to actually survive cause if you try to go back into fight you will die trading hits trying to heal – thats how its supposed to work? Moreover, 15sec timer is too low for weapon like hammer as its quite hard to trigger them all with such slow weapon.

For me its quite simple. If you dont have UA youre pretty much running with olny one healing skill. Try playing for a while with staff/hammer and tell me how Shiro heal worked when you got +1.

Use your shield 4 + 5 = 6k heal

Also, Glint heal is insane as well if you are having lots of incoming damage and pop it just before. Shiro is just an offensive heal and not a defensive one, different play style basically.

I do realize that if all you have is Shiro heal and less than 50% health… you are kind of doomed :\

Burtnik.5218:

Nautix.6385:

Shiro’s skill actually works even if you activate it then invoke another legend.

So does Glint heal.Your point? If you have to use second healing skill to actually survive then you just gave me a proof that Shiro healing ability is terrible.

My point is that every other profession has 1 heal on 1 timer. Revenant gets two heals on two timers.
On other professions, you can’t just use the heal then switch to a different heal and use that. Basically Shiro + Glint or Shiro + Jalis or even Glint + Jalis is supposed to be the same one heal for any other profession.

Shiro’s heal is absolutely fine, it’s inconvenient as it’s not a traditional heal and requires some preparation to actually use effectively. Try using it at 70% hp instead of 20% and see the difference.

Shiro’s skill actually works even if you activate it then invoke another legend. The heal still works. Technically you can activate Shiro’s heal then switch to Jalis and activate that heal as well, effectively giving you two heals.

The best thing about it is that it needs to only be activated and then you can switch to a different legend and move on. It’s actually quite good once you start using it with other legends.

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Get all Power/Precision/Ferocity gear and basically switch between the two stances. With Dwarf you can pull 5-10 mobs, aoe them down and if your health starts getting low just switch to staff.

Axe is for mobility, feel free to use a sword as well for more survivability if you wish.

Condition damage on a Revenant is not very good in PvE as it requires the NPCs to be moving to do full damage, which they just don’t seem to want to do when they need to!

Edit: If you pop the heal in Shiro, then switch to dwarf it will still heal you. You can also use the Dwarf heal to remove conditions but the hammers should always be on when fighting even one NPC.

Why settle for a hammer when you can go with a machine gun instead! :P

2h hammer would kinda neat though, but 1h mace I don’t like mainly because I don’t like 1h maces!

As long as you use elixir B & U, the third slot you can do whatever really.

You won’t get the full damage out of the grenade kit & flame thrower until 60+ so I would recommend pistol/pistol for pve for faster killing of stuff then rifle. (It has more AOE).

At 60+ either pick grenades and spec for it or FT and go that route.

Turrets are awesome for a couple of things:

- #1 use is for farming bags or mats at lower level areas
(just deploy turrets and run around killing other stuff while your turrets clear an area, then come back, loot & repeat)

- sPvP holding a point
(if you spread them out, some players go out of their way to kill them first or just give up trying to take the point entirely, it’s more of a psychological thing and won’t fool anyone who is experienced really)

Otherwise, turrets are fairly useless even while leveling. At lower levels they help but 60+ you don’t want to ever look at them again unless you are using them to do the #1 reason I said above.

This is only for damage turrets.

Healing & net turrets are awesome! Net especially if coupled with the rifle.

I’ve set up my set to be roughly at:

38% crit
25% crit damage
1800 toughness
just shy of 20k HP

Mix and matching the gear somewhat but it gives some great results and allows for some good AOE farming with the flame thrower.

Does not work so well in WvW as with the Grenade build though since you are medium range.

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Forestnator.6298:

Yes, but if this thief had the same player skill u have, u would have had no chance. Elixier S identifys an engineer? Every class has escape skills… get serious.

If he was better, I would have no chance either.

There are different things that work in different situations. The key is to pick and chose the play style that helps you against the professions you are having trouble with.
I am not saying that the engineer is on par with professions 100%. I just think that warning other people to stay away from this awesomely fun profession is a bad move.

It’s fun, at least for me. Easy to tell since 97% of my sPvP games are on engineer and the last three guardian/mesmer/thief. The reason I picked those professions is so I can learn to counter them because I had problems with them at first.

Deified.7520:

See we dont have a build that can hold its own well. Thiefs have the 24/7 stealth and instant 15,000 damage builds, warriors have thousands blades, mesmers (this is the one I see most often) is the clone spam/blurred frenzy build. If engineer still had a build that held its own in pvp then I’m sure much less of us would be complaint. Instead our only build, grenades, which people considered “op” (Which really wasn’t, it was mediocre at best) got nerfed hard every single class patch while their op builds go untouched.

I would recommend experimenting with you engineer and learning the class in pvp before complaining.

Thief 15000 dmg, clones on mesmer & thousand blades – All easily countered by elixir s

I’ve had tons of thieves jump me with the heartstrike just to waste all of their initiative on elixir s and then I just cc destroy them.

That’s just one example of how to counter them. I’ll let you figure out the rest!

If you don’t like the engineer then by all means play something else, warning others not to play a class that you personally don’t like is not a great thing to do.
I have played engineer since launch in both sPvP and PvE and i love the profession. It’s not a pure support or damage spec that works. You just have to figure out what you enjoy and do it.

It’s not like you have to play other professions from scratch now is it!

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I have no problems killing 3+ things at a time like most of the posters here, engineer is probably the most AOE heavy profession.
What I have problems with and takes FOREVER… is single target dps. Engineer is lacking in the single target burst damage quite a bit compared to other professions.

I actually really like Blowback and don’t want to see it changed. Main reason being that once the target is pushed back you can still hit it with your Flamejet ability while they are getting up and running back to you.

Andazeus.1928:

Pistol 3 does great damage against two targets, when it bounces multiple times. It also does confusion, which tends to hurt quite a bit. Sure, 5 is utility, but then again, almost all the weapon sets amongst all the classes have at least 1 utility skill.

But I agree, the engineer is sorely lacking some proper single target (burst) damage.

I just read my comment again and while you did get the message I meant to say I realized I had it wrong heh. Yes, I did mean single target burst dps. The #3 on pistol is amazing for 2-3 targets but just very weak on 1.

Grenades > anything else on the engineer. That is even before the 30 points in Explosions….

Andazeus.1928:

I think dual pistols and traited grenades are both very dps oriented sets with little utility.

Grenades more so then pistol, but pistol’s 3 & 5 are more CC then anything. Engineer also seems to be all AoE damage. It would be nice for something to be single target damage. I guess the rifle is but still heavy on CC.

Andazeus.1928:

I would rather see the current ones fixed first.

Yes, pretty much this. We don’t need more kits. We need the current ones fixed.

The one issue with the engineer is that it seems to be the only class that does not have one weapon combo/kit that is pure dps. Everything seems to have some type of support built into it for 2 of the 5 attacks.