Guild Wars 2

We used to hard-counter thieves and guardians. We also used to hard-counter longbow ranger before Signet of the Wild became popularly ran.

This rock-paper-scissors design is the bedrock of Guild Wars 2 PvP, and is conceptually what the meta-game is all about. The only reason boonstrip necro ever became a thing is solely because the popularity of rifle engi and d/d elementalist demanded it; the meta-game isn’t something you “chase.” It’s something you learn through game knowledge and experience.

Why is this a bad thing?

It’s counter-classing and structuring your build around what you tend to expect. There are always “non-meta” builds in the mix and these choices are completely viable. You can play a Marauder Elixir X Scrapper or a P/P Condi build on your engineer and be successful with it, as I certainly have at points—but the truth is that the Paladin Final Salvo build with Sneak Gyro was heavily favored at the start of the season because condi necro and dragonhunter were popularly faced early on, and neither the condi or Elixir X variants properly handle them as effectively as a triple gyro scrapper does through condi cleanse, reflects, and stealth.

Things change with time, learn to accept it.

So sure—we handle most professions and builds just fine 1v1. But the simple fact is you can list any class you’re versus and I can give you another profession that’s far better suited for it than we are. And in a solo/duo queue season scheme, counter-comping has never been more important.

That doesn’t necessarily mean you win the game.

It makes engineer the non-ideal choice in most circumstances, where another class can provide more to the team. And at higher tiers, having things like two engineers on your team literally loses games. No matter how decent our team support or damage is, we don’t replace a warrior’s damage or a druid’s healing output. What results often is the situation in which your team lacks stopping power or sustain to win heavy team fights versus warrior+necro+ele comps that more effectively counter the other members of your team.

I’m happy there are people like Ryze that are far better skilled than I am and are finding success with the profession and reaching legendary with it in spite of these difficulties. I don’t even honestly think I’m that great at PvP these days, and I’ve accepted I’ll probably finish the season around Platinum 1.

But I’ve spoken with a number of engineer mains I’ve befriended over the years and the unanimity is startling; across PvE, PvP, and WvW, we’re just not valued in our guilds. It’s the same unenviable situation that revenant is in. A good revenant still gets the job done in PvP, but they’re just not a favored profession at the moment in any aspect of the game. It’s a problem and it needs resolving—not rerolling.

There are a lot of unfamiliar faces in threads these days, and I understand that I haven’t been around much these days, but I find it kind of offensive that people would even suggest that I should play something else just because the engineer isn’t in a state I agree with. [/quote]

You could team up with one of your friends and duel against the builds you suffer most. I did that when GS/mace became a thing and with skirmish guard build. It really makes a difference practicing it.

Phineas Poe.3018:

Ryze.2891:

Engineer can hold against most classes on a node: druid, mesmer, ele, theif, guardian, warrior.

Druid, mesmer, and ele yes. Guardian is a washout based on what weapons they’re using. Staff thief when well played is also 50/50. Usually I just whittle them down and they leave. Good thieves don’t die needlessly.

But warrior? Absolutely not. You can 1v1 them, sure, but not “on point,” especially if they’re power.

I think rev is a substantially easier match-up than warrior, and they’re surprisingly left off your list.

If the guardian is running the skirmish build, which i rarely see in my games then yes he eventually kick me out of the node, which i happily do after getting 20-30 points and then go mid and help my team. however the guardian is going to be at a huge disadatvange going that build.

Good thieves aka D/P would never even bother fighting an engineer its a waste of time and they will never kill them. Staff theives is all about knowing the timing of their vulnerability during their vault animations.

Warrior might be difficult for you, but not for me. The only time i get decap from a warrior is when i screw up my dodge, blocks, stunbreak etc. Their abilities are telegrahped and only a few skills should be used to dodge or block.

I left out revenants because i know that power revenants counters power scrapper, and i mean real good revenants.

Some of this is anecdotel experience and some of it is just pure fact

Obtena.7952:

I guess that’s because I’m the only one here that bothers to point it out … or is smart enough to understand what that even means. You see, it’s easier for people to ignore the truth of what I’m saying there because if they accept it, they realize how meaningless it is to justify fixes on the only thing that they think matters. /shrug

I mean, if the question here is will you main engi if something doesn’t change soon, that’s no much different than if you don’t change my class, I’m not happy and please fix it. I don’t see the difference.

Amen.
There is so much bullkitten in this thread about engineer. Its funny how they improve on hiding their real intentions when making a thread. But back to engineer.

This class doesn’t suffer many problems. I am soon to hit legendary in this season, now I know thats purly anecdotel but I wont reach legendary status, by sucking at engineer right? Engineer can hold against most classes on a node: druid, mesmer, ele, theif, guardian, warrior. Now this is an anecdote again, but these classes I have listet, gives me no problems to hold a node permnantly and eventually kill them. I can talk more about how great engineer is in pvp whatever if its vanilla or hot build, but I don’t want to make a wall of text.

I am strictly talking about pvp mode.

I just want to understand it. It says Reduce “incoming” condition damage. Does that mean it will only reduce the first tick of bleed, burning to 20% and the rest of the ticks are full damage?

Instead of going into the forums and complain, you could have thought a way to counter 3+ guards? Play warrior with signet of might, pistol/pistol theif absoutely destroys stacking guardians. And last is Engineer, they outsustain guardians and will eventually kill them. But these are just my tools to beat guardians, you still have to understand the build and beaware what to avoid and when to burst. You cannot just go in and blow all your skills without checking when the enemy has up. I meet so many guardians in my low platinum games, where they use their heal trap at full hp, their F3 at the start of the fight and i just sit back and wait it out.

Another thing not mentioned yet is: Rotation. Its extremly important as a theif to know where enemy/allies are on the map so you can get glimp on where to +1 a fight. And its also important how many enemies died at what specific time. Because if you win a fight middle, you have a window to decap far but not fully capture it because they are going to respawn, and theives are not a 1v1 class in sPVP. There is a top theif player called Sinderer, who has some videos on his youtube explaining all this.

watch this one.

Hesacon.8735:

Ryze.2891:

I had my up and downs when i got placed in gold league, thought i could never get higher. I changed my attitude and it worked much better. Now i am in platium league from gold division 1. I solo’ed all the way

9/10 of those matches are total blowouts. Were they closer than the final score would seem to indicate?

I don’t know what you meanby blowouts. But i can’t compensate for the enemy team when they get disorganized in the first tf and lose. In those 10 games i had serveral lost teamfights but we still get our foot back in the game. I guess some form of luck

I had my up and downs when i got placed in gold league, thought i could never get higher. I changed my attitude and it worked much better. Now i am in platium league from gold division 1. I solo’ed all the way

Marauder with Strength runes that is what I play with my engineer. I will soon hit Platinum league this week. The classes i have trouble with is power warrior, very good necromancers, and skilled revenants. But i rarely meet those.

We cannot know for sure how engineer is going to fare well in s5, because we are still waiting for the upcoming balance patch.

I like this system alot and i played vanilla engineer with rifle and p/sh, it felt like hard mode cause vanilla engi doesn’t have alot of stunbreaks on the builds and low stability.

Why not full viper’s? I have not done the math myself but I will eventually is it because you overstack the condition duration?

metabattle..com shows rotation skills on a very detailed way

I have always read in this reve subforum that the revenant power build counters, most other power build, but never explains how it counters it like DH guard or warriors/mesmer. I tried power reve and i suck at the rotations, swap to condi reve and seen better results.
Sorry if this been posted before if so please link me the post and delete this.

They also have great pvp players if you are interested in that after doing dungeons

Seriously like how many times do we have to see these kinds of post? Don’t you guys ever learn to JUST POST YOUR OWN LFG can it really be that hard? I don’t get it to me it seems like people just want to get carried over. And if you don’t fill the req the post ask for don’t join it.
It just seems like people are so kitten bored in the game they have to complain about every single detail and instead they could just go and workout or do something else.
And even if you are a new player it really can’t be that hard to take initative on your own and actually search on wiki or the forums what zerker means etc. since the game been out for over 2 years.
people are just lazy

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Might be wise to say which region you guys are playing. EU or NA but since your ingame name is Texas it should’nt be surprising NA

Hi i have a few qeustions about the guild.

- how much activity do you expect fx: school, college do you bring these into consideration?
- whats the minimum age?
- Do you respect if the player also likes to play wvw or spvp?

I was in a former speed running guild long time ago but got burned out when i crafted The Juggernaut and Twilight at the same time. Was gone for 6 months after that.

What i can offer to your guild:
- diversity. can play serveral classes Warrior/Guardian/Mesmer (little rusty)/Elementalist/Theif ( but usaully never touched).
- Know most dungeon paths
- Experienced in fractals

Do not really main a class since i always had to swap because it was needed in a dungeon.

necro and spirit rangers, in solo q. im annoyed with thesse condi spam necros where they overload you with condis and run in circles until you die, how do i deal with this? and i dont know much about spirit rangers all i see them running with bows only?
im running the S/D build fresh air. 10/30/0/0/30 with orgre runes.

sorry talking about ascended like buying it straight out

if i want to buy gloves/head/boot pieces for my ele, and i dont have 500 tailoring yet.

Hi, im almost lvl 80 with my engi and im probably gonna make him into a fourth main, right now i have warrior, guardian, and mesmer. as i dont know much about engis yet and i still play some soloq/spvp with him to learn the skills.

im asking what are the top meta builds for dungeons/fractals. gear/sigils/traits?

alright thanks for input

Hi. im about to start leveling a engineer to 80 and get it rolling. What do you guys think the best race is for engineers? Appearence do matter. And im not planning a legendary for my engi because i kinda recret getting twilight and juggernaut.

Made a application on your website

Charr have issues with armor on heavy the most popular for them is only 1 the tier 3 cultural, humans have a varity of good looking armor. did you try look at norn they are awesome too

“Warriors are masters of weaponry who rely on speed, strength, toughness, and heavy armor to survive in battle. Adrenaline fuels their offensive power the longer warriors stay in a fight, the more dangerous they become.”

Hi guys i like to know what the good roaming builds are if you have link
i have been mostly doing dungeons/Fractals since realease cause i wanted some legendaries and the ascended. im rank 12 in spvp so my experince on 1v1 is average.

no the one above where i am in normal dye in the fractal and second one is when i have juggernaut on it just makes me complete black and removes all my original dye. like the first picture thats my normal dye.

here they are, hope you like them

alright i come up with some pictures

Would it not be Almost near impossible to make a legendary armor that have better visuals than the juggernaut already gives? To me i think wearing the juggernaut and having the liquid silver-chromish around you i feel already i have legendary armor on

and juggernaut changes colors too when the area is dark or bright. at the fractal gate you look like a golden shiney dude.

i dont think they make ascended stats swichtable they dont have the same prestige as a legendary do.

Alright i think i finish it up, since the chance on increased fractals lvl is getting higher i think the rewards will also be better. now to choose on guard or warrior :P

Hi
I started going for ascended armor a while back, and now im at 18 bolt of damask to to finish the set. i started crafting cause i liked the look and not because of the stats.

im now starting to think to quit the craft and sell all of them to gear my alt toons to the builds i want to. but what are the chances they increase fractal lvls and ascended armor is required to go higher? and i do like to do fractals im currently at lvl 42

Yes i did try auto running and it did indeed work, and yes my keyboard is a cheap one i guess i have to find another keybind for swapping and get used to

Thanks you all for inputs about ele/mesmer i decided to roll ele and skill cap wont be an issue i think. Lee Sin main

I tried binding it to another key TAB and it works i can swap while moving but im more used to use ½ as swapping. but when i bind it to the same one as before it still wont swap while moving.

I never had weapon swap problem i could swap even if i press 3 or 4 keys at once, is this a bug or something wrong with my keyboard?

based on your requirements its between theif and mesmer. you deal with the running for a mesmer with rune of the traveler. mesmer is good in dungeons, and can solo roam in wvw and portal/mass stealth zerg. ele can do the higest dps with fgs but thats mainly for dungeons cause of stacking, they are more like staff dudes in wvwvw. you could do d/d ele but you need to be good at it and patient.

i cant swap my weapons while moving this problem just came to me someone know how to fix it? i can swap weapons while my toon stands still but not while moving

Whats the best way to describe a lfg speed run? cause i hate being mean to people even though they jion without reading the post. how do you make sure you can avoid trash pugs? whats your way?

I dont have a dedicated dungeon group which i would like to, but no rl friends play this. and your right that pugging can sometimes be great and sometimes really bad when you just jion the wrong team. Can anyone confirm how much they got from frostgorge sound? just wanted to know.

im getting confused because people say this is most effective and other say this is most effective, are there any persons around who have done the things and know the math behind it?.
i can play frostgorge more than an hour i got holiday 4 more days left before i get blasted with essays and rapports to fill in gym

ascended gear. i have 15 damask and deldrimor ingots, im running low on mats. i do have the vision crystal ready and the t6 mat all i need is the damask.

so im asking if frostgourge champ train is more effictive than my usual dungeon run paths?

So whats most effective frostgorge or dungeons?

alright so it seems like if im getting good with one of the classes i contribute more to a group

Hi i need some help before i choose what class to lvl next as a secondary main. I mostly played guardian since launch and have many hours on it.

I would like to play a spellcaster class, cause sometimes i get really bored on my guardian, thats probebaly cause i have too many hours on it.

Thinks i do mostly:
Dungeon/fractal
World event like teq/Living story
i do like to have some surviability so i could handle myself if my party got wiped on a boss
Beeing needed in dungeons/fractals Sry necros :/
In some cases i do like to roam in wvw, but i dont do it that much.

Frostgorge champ train? i have never done it though. But what is its purpose, can i get something out of it?

Hi dos anyone know if there is a good WvW solo guard build? like thesse meditation i hear a lot but cant seem to find any builds around here. for solo mostly