Guild Wars 2

Pukknub.7368:

What? I think you should say the reasons why you feel this way.
Not just “omgz0r this class sobad”

I find engineer amazing.

I don’t want to sound rude or presumtuous, so please don’t missinterpret me.

I have 350 hrs of platime on my engineer, which I think is enough to get a good insight on how class works or should work.

My statement that most of or skill and traits are useless is based on following.

Turrets: have absolutely no function at all, slow rate of fire or bad damge and they are stationary. I know that anet wanted to create something similar to Ritualist from GW1 but they missed the point. Ritualist had a lot of utility and support. For a list of their skills chack this link: http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/List_of_ritualist_skills

Elixirs: Althogh they look decent on paper when used they don’t offer anyhing out of the ordinary that other profession can’t do on equal level or better. Lack of party buffs from throwing them and too much random effects.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Toss_Elixir_U
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Toss_Elixir_H
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Toss_Elixir_S

Kits: I get the idea that kits replace secondary weapons and that is why we don’t have a secondary weapon slot, the only advantage they offer is no 10s cooldown on weapons swap in combat. Big issue with kits is that you don’t get weapons stats when you switch to them. Some would say it is not important, but that is untrue, since a singe rifle can have +9% crit. damage, toughnes or something else which you lose on kit swap. Also each time you swap to a kit you lose time for action, which in sPvP or WvW is important, every second counts. They are used mostly for their Utility belt skills which are good. Only exeption to this is Med Kit which is well thought out and balanced. Not going to cover the issues of Flamethrower kit or Grenade nerf, Elixir Gun etc.

Lastly I don’t understand why Engineers have 1000 ranger with rifles and Warriors 1200. For us to have 1200 range we need to invest points in Firearms trait.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rifled_Barrels
Pistlos are just mess, they are half normal damage half condition damage, so if you want to use them effectively you have to adapt your whole gear to them, but then again when you switch to kit all that gear is semi usable since most kit sills deal normal damage.

Really can’t cover traits now but numbers like 5% chance to bleed on crit and similar make me laugh.

In short there is no sinergy between our skills and traits.

I hope this answer was enough to explain my previous post.

My opinion is that in current state Engineer as a class is completely uselles and not fun to play, too many abilites and traits that do nothing. We lack focus and direction on what are we supposed to do.
I propose that anet gives us the option to create another class of our choice that is level 80 instead of our engineer that will be deleted as a compensation.

I don’t see how the forums would blow since players have tendency to take the easy way out, close the client and go for a walk or watch TV, maybe even have some dinner
Joke aside, if there is any diagnostic utility or gw2 client command we can use, apart form contacting ncsoft tech support, to provide more information about this issue please tell us.

@Ashley
Although I appreciate you answer, you have to be honest about this problem.
We are players from all over the world, different countries and cities,
but still we have the exact same problem, which is that your (ncsoft) server is disconnecting us from the game for unknown reason.
I also have to mention that Guild Wars 2 is the only game that exhibits this problem. Other software that I use functions properly, without any disconnects.
This can happen 5 times in 5 minutes or days can pass without disconnect.
All we ask is that you look at your servers and try to figure out what is happening,
just don’t try to blame it on us or our ISP, since we did everything on our side that was suggested in regard to this problem.

Best regards

Obviously a lot of players have this problem, but anet just decided to ignore it.
I bet they are thinking, if we keep quiet it will go away by itself and no one will notice it
Good thing is that we don’t have to pay monthly fee to play this game, since that is how much it is worth.

I have exactly the same problem as Noly.6548.
It all started with Lost Shores update, and since then I get frequent disconnects.
My internet connection also slows down at that time (its non existent, to say better), but as soon as I close Guild Wars 2 everything is back to normal.