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I’ve just reached level 60 with my Engineer playing flamethrower build in PvE and reached lvl 7~8 sPvP and I’ve come to the following conclusions with the Engineer.
This class brings nothing to the table when it comes to PvP. Here is how I see it.
If you want AoE damage go Elemental
If you want DPS go Thief
If you want livability go Guardian
If you want a bruiser go Warrior
If you want DoT go Necro
If you want CC go Mesmer
What does that leave the Engineer… Scraps. It’s like the saying Jack of all trades, Master of none. Except with this class its more like Jack of all, Mediocre at all. I’ve experimented the entire time with this class trying to get a build that can do something yet it all falls back to getting pigeonholed into Rifle build or Grenade build. I can already tell some of you are thinking “BUT YOU HAVE KITS” Yes we do have kits… that don’t scale very well at all, not to mention no auto attack on those kits, and our weapon skills and sigils don’t factor into the kits either.
They need to rework this class so it brings something the other classes don’t bring to the table. I have a few ideas on what that could be.
First and foremost, fix ourkittenauto kits and bugs that have been here since beta.
Second, make the turrets useful. The only time I’ve ever seen someone use turrets in sPvP is when they do a supply drop. That’s it.
Third, Give us a better variety of weapons to use. We can use a pistol or a rifle, Yet we get no good distance on those. So this equates to some serious problems considering we are fairly squishy yet have no range (I mean come on, a warrior out ranges us)
Fourth, Our downed state is like a Dane Cook joke, Painful and you only laugh because of how bad/awkward it was. If we are downed and trying to get back up why bring the person who put us down towards us. Might as well just make our #2 “Go back to waypoint” and the #3 is painfully long, 20 seconds on the ground is too long. I’ve maybe got it off twice before.
This part right here is for all of you who love to reply “well engineer does good on teams in tourney play”… Ok, well my truck does pretty good at driving me to the grocery store so it should be good to compete in the Indycar 500 right? No.
sPvP and Tourney are completely different. I don’t always have a team to play with or have time to find one sometimes I just want to jump into a pvp match play a little then go do more quests/ help friends level. But at its current state Engineer can’t do this very well. They need to be balanced out so they can do decent in both not just one.