Question to all – I’m fairly new to GW2 (started around New Years) and when the promo was going on I bought a second account and made an engineer on it, so I’m pretty new to engineer too (currently 45). Am I committing a faux pas at events? For PVE/soloing I throw up turrets for events (heart questing I don’t usually need them), and every time I will throw up turrets and there will be a group of people that will then rush forward and kill everything out of range of my turrets. I’m not parking myself and hiding behind the turrets either, I’m getting in range of mobs and moving around, cycling between flamethrower and e-gun depending on the fights. I then find myself having to run way out to be able to get any kill credit.
I recently did the event in Gendarran Fields where the waves of animals come out of the arena and me and 3 others were within the heal radius of my turret and this level 80 guardian just runs up and kills everything the second they came out of the gate, before they get in range to the rest of us. I thought it was pretty jerky, but it’s been happening a lot so it made me wonder if I’m just doing things wrong.
Am I doing something considered “wrong” by the majority or am I having the bad luck of getting on a megaserver with trolls? I’ve read up on how to be a dps engineer (flamethrower/egun/grenade kit) and it seems pretty straightforward except it’s useless for soloing PVE since everything dies so fast just to rifle AA. After trying the dps rotation I just went back to popping turrets/flamethrower for soloing.
