Guild Wars 2

So I’m an engi running a grenade condition build, and I want to add a superior sigil of the warrior to one of my pistols. My question is – if I put it on my offhand pistol, will it still kick in when I switch off my kit? Or does this type of sigil only work for mainhand? Obviously it doesn’t REALLY matter – I can just equip one into the other slot if it decides not to work. But I’d just like to know.

Thanks!

All of this sounds great. Thanks for the help! I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to run around or not, so that answers that. Switching to supply crate now, and I’ll keep blinds in mind Thanks!!

K U T M.4539:

Elite: Supply Crate.

For traits, x/10/x/x/10 or x/x/x/10/10 can help your survivability a lot by adding Swiftness + vigor. As you have 30 points, I’d recommend 10/0/0/10/10, traiting bomb radius, invigorating speed, and speedy kits.

Grenades aren’t very good until you can trait Grenadier, which you can’t do until L60.

Alright, fair enough. But like, am I playing wrong? Should I be baiting or..?

And thanks for the answer

So, I know that as an engineer I’m going to be reasonably squishy, but I’m finding that I die hella fast as an engi. The problem, really, is that the bomb kit leaves me wide open since i have to be relatively close in order to be effective, and being on the front lines as a squishy guy… sucks.

So what am I doing wrong? And how should I change it? I’m using pistol/shield with bomb kit and I’m at level 41. Currently running 20/11 traitwise, with healing turret, bomb kit, eg and Elixir B (this would be the one to change, if to anything. Eventually it’ll be grenade kit but I’ve heard those suck til 60?).

Thanks!

Side q: What elite skill should I be running? I couldn’t decide and went with 7 series golem for now. Wrong choice?

Oh, and I’m Asura, if that makes a difference.

mercury ranique.2170:

Warrior is a selfish dps-machine
Ranger is a selfish dps-wannabe
Necromancer is fun, too bad conditions are limited (the amount of stacks of e.g. poison is very quickly reached, specially in world events)
Thief is nice to supply stealth to your fellow players, but is a bit weak in selfsupport.
Elementalis and engineer have some pretty nice support mechanism. Engineer is more versatile but difficult to master. Ele has better dps, but can be squishy at the start.
Guardian is the best in a supportive role and are actually still good in DPS
Mesmer is helpfull….To portal people to jumping puzzle chests. Also good in WvW to hide in an enemy keep when it is bout to be taken and then when the keep is taken and the main enemy force is gone, to quickly portal your forces back in and retake.

Sounds good. Engineer is fun so far, I like their insane versatility. I think I’ll stay here for now. Thanks!

Carpboy.7145:

MisterElliott.2481:

Carpboy.7145:

Dont let stupid people screw you over. All classes are completely viable and fun to play at end game

… Which is exactly the kind of answer that the OP specifically asked not to get.

No its not. He asked not to get a “play whatever you want. Even if it sucks it doesn’t matter because youre having fun”

I told him the truth. All professions are good and viable

Not to be rude, but your answer was more or less yes what I was avoiding. I know any good player can make a ranger viable, but I also know that a skilled ranger going against a player of equal skill playing ANY OTHER CLASS, that ranger will lose. Thus, I’m not playing that, as much as I hate it (archers ftw, after all).

As I said in the other response, I went with engi for now. I’ll create a different class later, if this proves to be wrong, but I’m at least enjoying myself for now. Asura are crazy so there’s that.

NornBearPig.9814:

aguyuno.1036:

Which class would be most useful for people for me to play as? Which class, if you will, will benefit groups the most?

Guardian is the most universally desired profession in all game modes. Every small group, zerg, and dungeon runner values them.

For a better, more specific answer, which game mode (PvE, WvW, sPvP) do you plan on spending most of your time?

Honestly, I don’t know. PvE until 80 at least, almost definitely. But I will likely PvP when I get to end game, if not a bit before that. PROBABLY not solo pvp though; I prefer team battles in games like this.

I went with engineer for now, since their versatility should mean that I can adapt to any of the game types and it isn’t “rolling easy mode” like Warriors are. I would’ve gone Guardian, but the friend I’m planning to mostly play with is already that so yeah xD. Are engis good?

So I started this game as a ranger (today; as in, I’m new to the game as of today), like I was in GW1, and got up to level 4 before I started reading forum posts and finding out that rangers are almost totally useless because, even if you play well, pets will screw up a lot. So that seems to be out of the picture (I’m not really looking for an argument here; every time I’ve seen someone argue but they can do xyz, they’re refuted quickly). So I checked which classes DO seem to be the best… and it seems basically everyone plays warrior with a couple eles and mesmers thrown in?

Is the class spread really that boring? Should I not bother with an engineer or thief then, since they’re basically wastes of time it seems? I don’t even see necros mentioned half the time, to the point where I actually forgot they existed until I looked at a class list just now.

So honest q. And I don’t need “whichever one is most fun for you” answer, please; I’m adaptable, I’ll play what I’m needed to play. Which class would be most useful for people for me to play as? Which class, if you will, will benefit groups the most?

Thanks. And sorry for the rant; just a bit frustrated by the complaints I’m reading. Not exactly as excited for this game as I was about 20 minutes ago after reading them, rofl.