Guild Wars 2

i feel the range should be greatly increased for us to be really useful, but there is already shout warriors everywhere, or FS guardians. tbh if we were to burst heal for the same amount as the shout warrior (full cleric shout wars healing for over 1.7k heals a hit) wed be less effective than them, except wed have 4sec less CD on 2 of there skills, but have 2 (or only 1 if you have the kit refinement trait) heals short of them. Right now a properly decked support engi can heal just fine, you DO have to bother your teammates to hug you at all time, but lets face it, if those ranged/casters dont listen to you, theyre gonna die anyway, just like they probably always do. Of course im speaking about dungeon Support engis only.

TLDR: i think its fine as it is.

i assume that your talking large scale events, WvW and the likes when you say guardians and elementalists are the better healers, Destroyer. Because dungeon-wise and usual close combat-wise these classes arent even remotely close be as good healers as engineers. The only thing that could compete with them in a matter of healing would be warriors for theyre burst heals, guardians arent so good at it either, theyre buffers/healers, not amazing healers.

tigirius.9014:

More then that, because there are so many bugs and because we’ve been nerfed (the idea to nerf the one class that doesn’t do much damage as it is) there doesn’t seem to be much reason to play one.

Sure people will make arguments that oh you can be a very skilled player to get around those bugs and if you knew what you were doing the bugs wouldn’t affect your gameplay but that’s actually not true. The bugs that are present now affect every build.

It’s literally impossible to play this class in anything other then WvW at this point. Have you tried soloing something in Orr for example?

I have I’m decced out in exotics and still I can’t three shot anything. It’s ridiculous.

You should’nt expect to 3 hit things anyway. Engineers a versatile class that can be used at every fashions; you want a glass cannon? you have it. a tanky/DD? yup. a tanky/support, a full support, a ranged dps, a DoT DD, a burst dmg DD, you name it, we have it. There have been multiple builds running around the forums, and if you pay attention you will see how your class can shine on every single aspect of the game. Theyre arguably the best HoT/support healers for dungeons, they wreck in WvW, they do theyre share in sPvP and honestly, if you do have trouble in PvP environment in full exotics, you have to be doing something wrong.

after a couple of resets, he still cant ’’hit’’ the electric pillar to get properly damaged (have hes ice armor buff removed)