Guild Wars 2

Just 1 feature that would make engis comptetitive would do the job.
Just one stuff would slove this.

There is 9 classes ingame and 10 players slots in a raid. Arena net should make everysingle class a slot inside that game content.

@Dirame.8521
Your ideas are great, with the same skills they could also ad more effect.

Such as important damage boost for the team, alacrit or reliable quickness team support.

Also increase the cooldown of the skills they made would be good. They have too big cooldown and low duration too be decent.
Hard Arena light skill buffs are very very bad for example. It should at least grant stability, more buffs and the duration of the arena is far too short to be a good skill.

“Photon Forge replaces the Holosmith’s fifth toolbelt skill” NO . no no no please no. let player be able to use whatever elite skill they want and still be able to use the holosmith.

@Chaith.8256
In raid or WvW you need to think " Is this class build bringing more than and other one "
Every class is decent and can be played. But when it comes to have a slot in the squad you need to compare yourself with other build.

And just from reading/watching vids of the holosmiths skills, this new elite spec don’t have anything that will be worth taking a holosmith in your wvw or pve raid instead of an other class.
We will again be the last wheel of the wagon.
They made an holosmith with a few mechanic and design but there is such tremedous lack of work on the skills buffgiven/duration and synergie with other engi skills that I’m wondering : Is engi the gimic class of gw2 ?

@I don’t remeber who

My main character in pve and wvw is engi healer build water field blaster and condi removal support. and I really enjoy playing my character.

I proved that I can heal as much even sometimes better than a druid in raid but I don’t find raid spot because at the end I’m told that I can’t bring as much damage support like a druid can ( even if we both healers.

I have very good damage mitigation and can be a good tank but I do not find a slot because chronomancer more appreciate than me because of the Alacrit buff.

In WvW with my char I try to do the best I can with removing my team condition and blasting my water fields but it’s without any doubte that leaders will prefer a good reliable meta build instead of me.
( Big thank you for all the poeple that play with me in wvw it’s thank you for taking me with you guys. )

When more than half of my specializations traits and skills have a support intend it seems to me normal to play engi support.

And belive me I will main an Invention/Alchemy/Holosmith build with full menestrel gear meta or not, shiet synergy or not.

No rage needed that’s much better than your previous message.

My thoughts are the folowing :
Meta builds have different importance depending of what game mode you are playing.
Not having a meta build for roaming, pvp, fractals, pve events isn’t that important ; you will still be able to play thoses gamemodes.

But for PVE raid and dedicated WvW squad Meta build or Effective build/Synergizing builds are much more important. The fact that you are as or more effective than other classes will determine if you deserve a slot in the squad.
Because the level and expectation of teamplay is higher than pvp conquest roaming whatever.

What I am angry about is that they insiste to give us this dps tank that have no place in the pve raid meta and very questionable utility in wvw squad. Maybe it aswesome for solo pvp when you are bored of your life but that’s on an other level, I wish you do understand my point here.
Because the investissement of gearing for raids or wvw it’s much higher than random fractal or arena pvp. The result of this mean that there is not reason to invest time and money on gearing an engi tank or support.

We have a class that can do a little of everything healing, support, tanking but we don’t have a spot in the meta because we can’t do things in a comparable level to others classes.

Give engis tank a similar buff that will increase the party effectiveness like Alacrit from Chronomancers. Give engis healer the possibility to increase party dps on the same level a druid can do. Give engis a real importance in WvW where having one in your squad will matter.

And instead of Arena net trying to make our skills competitive they trow this very cheap paint to cover the class skills they don’t want to work on. We have some much skills in engi that are useless and outdated, just look at that medkit ! Wtf is that?

Chaith.8256:

Pablo.3259:

Holosmith wont be meta anywhere.

We have healing, some kits some gadgets, turrets etc just make this viable instead of
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…whatever I’m tired.
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Hey? you guys checked that theif new spec ? Looks awesome no ?

Just amazed by how people so confidently know what will be useful and where,

you have no actual idea, best to wait and see

I’m just amazed how so confidently you think that we don’t know what willbe useful and where.
It’s not because you have 0 idea about anything that the rest of the player base is as clueless as you.

Wait and see if you want but here but in this forum topic we talk about holosmith traits. If the only constructive comment you can bring is “wait and see” I propose you indeed to wait and see aswell.

This holosmith spec is folowing the exact same path of scrapper and sorry if you don’t like it but this is true.

Developpers wants to create a refreshement when they realese theses elites specs but the overall final on engineer it’s a slackness result. We litteraly look like a graveyards of multiple kids ideas that didn’t have motivation to finish what they started.

And instead of trying to fix and creating more links into what we already have they just give us after :
The horrible “wanna be tank stupid AI gryo spec” ( scrapper )
The horrible "wanna be tank n°2 Stupid 0 synergysmith " ( holosmith ).

But this time bois they added some lights and made it shiny like that you don’t see the rest of the engi skills " they even locked your elite skill slot, like that you don’t see all the rest of the skills they don’t want to work on. ( you need the holo tool kit elite spec in order to be able to play fully the holosmith concept )

The pve meta didn’t wanted scrapper tank and that will be the same with holosmith because we can’t bring as much as chronomancers.

I mean look at the skills ? Are they trowing some idea out of the wind and hope that they will work somehow without comparing them with others class power.

This holomsith it’s fail n°2 for the engi. We are just stacking more usless skills with no synergy. That’s no respect for engi players and Im really disapointed to see how poor the arena net get invested for us.

ARENA NET you need to make a engineer spec that put all the differents builds you tried to create at the same level to their competitor. Don’t try to blind us with that flashy holosmith ligh. Sitdown and work about how to fix the engi skills/trait mess some serious stuff for you invested engis players.

The poeple that like holosmith are players that need a new wave of refreshement. They are big mouth now because they are desperately looking for something new but after playing it for 2weeks they will leave it ( like they left their scrappers ) Because Holosmith wont be meta anywhere.

We have healing, some kits some gadgets, turrets etc just make this viable instead of
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..
…whatever I’m tired.
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Hey? you guys checked that theif new spec ? Looks awesome no ?