Guild Wars 2

thank you for the replies. its really helpful. i will try to use turrets underwater. but in pvp. what happen if the area is in enemy hands? the sharks? wouldnt the turret will target everything near them? i thought we cant spesificly choose our target with turrets.
about other classes underwater. well dont have problem with them unless you are careless. just thief. i havent got the feel yet how to actually hit them underwater.
i have given up waiting for arenanet patches. i know they are working hard. but i dont think they would nerf thief that fast or even think about our bugs in engineers. ( our rocket boots are still disabled underwater )

tried toolkit. tried grenade. both failed. is there anything we can do to fight thief evades underwater?

why they didnt fix acidic elixir anyway… i think its good for jokes tho. like personal battering rams.
engineer: wanna see a magic trick? a sheep pop up from your belt
other class: YAYYY hahaha!!! again again!
engineer: sorry 45 second cool down.
other class: 0_0

cant argue with you on that. elixir build and tank will get small damage. but yeah droping firearms is a better way. since “currently(soon to be changed)” rifle is really half there and half not.

currently. pistol are dumb and rifle are for lazy people.
as for your question. not really. all stats for all weapons are useable. but if you talking about traits. rifle is only from precision traits which is firearms. and power is power it will raise your damage whichever your weapon is. best mix for damage is more power more critical damage % + precision from armor. berserker equipments is your answer.

as from HP. we dont have that many hitpoints to begin with. arenanet make a mistake from a shield system standpoint tho. if you use a shield the damage will decrease significantly even you dont have that much tougness or sum up armor from stats. even your tougness reach 2k or more, a shield with lower tougness will absorb the damage more. dont ask me why. cus i still dont know why they make it that way.

but

i suggest you go to weapon kits.
grenade for high damage
flamethrower for toughness
bomb for medium damage and condition also healing if you want your traits go to healing ( combine it with elixir gun is a good match )

an engineer always on edge if you want to be better.
example. grenades better at damage but you are weak in defensive.
bombs can be balance but not really high at anything
bombs can maximize healing combine it with elixir gun but you not doing so much damage to enemy.

this traits you should look and practice at.
grenadier [ Explosive XI ]
juggernaut [ Firearms XI ]
Elixir Infused Bombs [ Inventions XI ]
and you should look for combo you can use from Kit refinement [tools IV]
more example : if you use Kit refinement. when you change your kit to elixir gun it will cast a light combo field which heals you and remove conditions and which you can combo finisher [ Blast ] from shield or destroying a turret or anyother means to get a retaliation.
there are many combo you can make with engineer.
tips for you. when you put a healing turret the first time it will cast a water combo field when it sprays water. so when you put the turret and wait till it sprays quickly destroy it with F1 as default you will get area healing.

there are no definite answer for engineer since everyone has their own style. its the tricks you need to find and practice on.

if you like high damage i suggest you research grenadier traits to get maximum damage.

a build is not bound by traits only. its all your armor and trinkets will have to change when you want to change builds.

but like i said other people have other play style. depends if you are lazy and use 1 armor or you want to stand out in spesific areas.

mix match works too.

i am max and i am an engineer

sometimes i like to use bomb as my healing.
with healing build ofcourse.
elixir infused bomb + dual light combo field from elixir gun are sweet.
pairing up with a guardian mace build. and thy shall be a healer once more o holy trinity!

asuran cultural medium are sweet brother. and a cultural human chick medium. o that mix is da bomb

hoho i would love using a hammer. man i love using that ele hammer conjure all the time if my friend conjured it. not so much swords. seems to barbaric using swords. hammer yeah a hammer would be nice.dual hammer heheh. yeah yeah o to much day dreaming.

oh dear god. let me level you guys who ever thinks a grenades are op. to make a grenade at higher damage. is. traits. 30 explosive. 15 firearms. and 25 tools.
in those traits there no what so ever a defensive traits. our health are not that much.
if you hit us we will die. i mean. 2-3 seconds will die in a blink. unless we use elixir S to run. and that is not very far either. and that in wvw. in PvE. we are not that good by ourself. if we convert our power to more defensive traits. or more balanced. grenades are really kitten. even a flamethrower with juggernaut will be more useful. compare it to other classes? arenanet make the battle system not all the same damage per second. if you sums it up it will almost the same. hundredblades big damage in 2 seconds. grenades a big damage in 6 seconds. elementalist constant damage always in i dunno couple of seconds. none of the classes is really that op anymore. you cant hit a grenadier cus they are to far? just get close. if you tried a engineer grenadier you know they cant hit you if you are moving to fast. they need to immobilze you to get a constant damage. if they are to far you cant get close cus they are at the cliff? why bother trying getting close unless you can pull them down. stop saying our kit are op. man if people keep saying that. all classes have an OP weapons. pets/frostbow/etc. ever fight an engineer underwater ? feels op aint it? wrong. if you keep moving they cant hit you as the same. a grenade in water will hit the last place you are in. its not homing. if you keep moving it will miss. you will got hit with 1 grenade at least. they make our edges is to make us different in someways not as the same. this is still an Mmo"rpg" no?

you just need to find a way to fight a grenadier. since im nice i will tell you one. reflect if you have one. a grenadier will stop hitting you no matter what. if you dont have a reflect find other ways, im nice but i am not your bestfriend.

yep. still a problem. i feel. just if. i can resize or even move the enemy health bar just more upper. or. make the UI more simpler. i think GW2 is not a traditional mmo in a sense. cus to an engineer with a grenade. its really action based. you if you dont hit the enemy right in their place the grenade wont hit them. it will not like a sword will follow your enemy. or a bullet will follow your target where ever they go. a grenade will not follow like they do. so like i said. even in lower resolution i feel they have to make an adjustment.

use this. our WMD . a grenade, elixir U and elixir S/elixir gun.

explosive 30. shrapnel , explosive powder and grenadier.
fire arms 15. precise sight, target the weak.
Tools 25 speedy gadgets/kit refinement/speedykit ,scope and enduring damage.
all equipment berserker including acc(rings,backpack, etc)

crit damage at level 80 can reach1500 per grenade(times 3). not always. but the condition damage you cast will sum up the same. bleeding and vulnerability will sustain at 13-16. pairing up with another engineer or a nerco will sustain at 25 bleeding at 25 vulnerability. or you can mix it up your utility to make 25 vul by your self. your choice.

tricks on kit refinement. when you change to elixir gun it will cast a light combo field which is healing and remove condition( use it again manualy when needed). use a shield to blast it for area retaliation. since you only change to heal of what so ever if you are being attacked. when your done use acid bomb to back off or if you are using elixir S then just ran off. pluse throwing elixir U are a must. reflect and a blind will protect you from projectiles.

i suggest to make a sure survival you use a medkit. when you change a medkit with a traits speedykits it will cast a swiftness on you. so when you run you can heal your self and a condition while getting swiftness. and dont be lazy. dodge while you can.

this is my favorite build because i can high damage also i can protect heal health and conditions of my party.

ps: becareful using this on wvw. if enemy reflect you. you will die in 2-3 seconds because of your own grenade. especialy that dumb purple mesmer dome.

make pistols and rifle more usable other than giving conditions bro designer.

i dont know if anyone have ask this before. any future changes can be make for the UI.
i already choose smalles UI in the options. but it has…

im an engineer. i like use a grenade. i am a grenadier. like arenanet choose to make it so it cant auto attack ( i know it will be OP if it can ) but. most if not so often i pressed the screen at the enemy health bar my grenade will thrown off somewhere else not it suppose to. and again like you make it so if i want to hit the enemy without dying i need to run while pressing 1 over and over when strafing left to right. you know how hard it is for the fingers right. and control + shift + H is not an answer since i cant see my characters health and what conditions that are in. even i already memorized all of my buttons. and buying a bigger screen is not the answer either. i cant move the enemy health bar either. i dont know how. but that is my problem. i know i can change my view and what not. i just hoping just if. you can make a more simpler UI options than it is. i hope this is not asking to much.

ps: do you realize most of the screenshot out there if not even yours are with no UI.? look how beautiful it is?

does the rune number 6 working for you? i only got aegis when using Elixir X
im an engineer when i use other elite skills my party near me didnt get Aegis.

Elixir X i have to turn it off first after i rampage or turn into tornado. then we got aegis. not wait but turn it off right after i changed. but isnt that weird?

i agree with this. mainly cus of the elite skill drop. i hardly see where it is until i really look for it. but on the fly using that around people shooting at you makes you break attention from the enemy. while trying to look for it mostly died becus of it. well. there many ways to do that elite skill. but its better to use it not only for defends cus it drop flame turret also which is the range is not far. and a note to that. seeing ranger have a pet that really hard to kill like their bears. i really hope they raise turrets hit points. at least not like bug being stomp on.

HAH i fix it. freaking error. i deleted the .dat data in my documents of guildwars. Documents/Guild Wars 2/Local.dat
and completely uninstall guild wars 2.
and do fresh install. wait until the patch its done. 15 gigs of it.

like Paul said the error 23 is our data corrupted. im assuming some of the latest patch i dont know which screwed up our data. at least on my end. so clean install will work regardless. -repair wouldnt work since the client patch will crash before it can finish. again, at least on my end. i hope they will find a better way to do this. but for now i hope this solution will help someone.

now theres two character stuck in there. i tried the fixing thing with my hard drive. scandisk etc. it doesnt help. T_T this is really… both of my character are stuck in lonars pass.

well i tried it again. This happen. the repair. thingy.

—> Crash <—
Fatal Error: Fatal disk-error (23) on read,
App: Gw2.exe
Pid: 3656
Cmdline: -repair
BaseAddr: 00400000
ProgramId: 101
Build: 15445
When: 2012-09-06T09:44:33Z 2012-09-06T16:44:33+07:00
Uptime: 0 days 0:07:11
Flags: 0

it crashed when verifying the files. it just crashed the launcher after it checking for awhile.

oh well. thanks for the gift. it doesn’t work. im guessing you already tried my account and can logged in fine at your end. should i reinstall it?

oh my. i woke up and someone leave a gift beside my bed. well it feels like it.
not yet know what inside. yes the client doing something. will let you know what is inside in a bit

i think someone tripped a wire there.

this will be the last time i will ask this. anyone know what this means?

—> Crash <—
Fatal Error: Fatal disk-error (23) on read,
App: Gw2.exe
Pid: 6512
Cmdline:
BaseAddr: 00400000
ProgramId: 101
Build: 15437
When: 2012-09-05T20:12:51Z 2012-09-06T03:12:51+07:00
Uptime: 0 days 0:06:15
Flags: 0

i crashed everytime i logged in with one of my character.
i can play with my other character just fine.

so. any clue?

i hope someone see this

yea.. im not stuck in personal story. now i just wish the story is stuck so i still can play with my character. no offense personal story stuck people. cause i cant play my character now because of this. at least one of them.

when i log in with one of my character. it will crashed to windows after.
but when i log in with my other character. it will be fine. i can play. i have 4 character for now just 1 of them having this problem.
my character have been stuck for couple of days.
Lornar’s Pass was the last position then i crashed after trying to get a waypoint.