You guys are silly if you think elixir S and mist form are equal. I just tested and I can pop mist form and aoe heal for 4.5k (attune water, dodge roll, regen tics, soothing mist tics) while aoe clearing 3 conditions. Can an engi do that?
Some of you people just white knight for the sake of it. Maybe you think it makes you look good or smarter but I just sit here and laugh at you. The fact of the matter is the engineer isn’t in a great place. While other classes have a lot of room to make builds it looks to me that engi has 2 viable ways to go right now, SD or HGH. With the way things are going I understand why people are complaining. Arena Net’s track record with engineers is to kill builds instead of balance them (like taking crit off of mug and adding a heal). They have also alluded to killing HGH nades and putting a internal cd on SD.
With the elixir S change Arena Net has shown that they don’t want engineers to use the skill in the way most have been using it but what they didn’t do is give the skill new purpose. All they did was narrow its usefulness and kill more builds. They are forcing people deeper into the HGH and 409 route instead of allowing for standard bunker builds. Most of you that white knight the change don’t care or don’t see this because you’re most likely running flavor of the month builds like HGH and 409 so the skill still has some use to you. Other people who want to run non HGH and 409 builds just had some choices taken away.
No matter how you look at it, the elixir S change was not fair or balanced and did not create build diversity. They should have kept it how it was and took away stomping while in elixir S or only allow the use of kits. If they would have only allowed the use of kits then it would have been closer to the change that the ele got. Since I can still burst heal or do 4k damage and apply conditions in mist form.
I would also like to point out that I main a mesmer but I have the second most play time on my engi, followed by my ele.
(edited by YourOwnFear.2743)