It’s pretty common knowledge by this point that engineers and rangers are the worst classes. So anyone saying “we’re in a great place” probably hasn’t played any other classes to a great extent. Engineers are tons of fun, and skill can get you through all the content. But the classes are not balanced, and the better professions can do everything Engineers can, just much easier, and much better.
Elixir S is a far better revive utility than R imo. Sure if 2 or more people got downed conveniently next to one another, R might be the better choice. But the fights that you need revive utility, R doesn’t really help that much. It won’t get a guy up who’s trapped in an AOE or taking damage. Its basically only good for situations where the downed dude is completely safe, you just don’t feel like running over to him. S allows you to run into an AOE field and get the guy up before he dies.
The only reason to use R is because of the endurance refill, the revive thing is just a little bonus.
This is my experience with fractals, where getting a downed player up is a huge priority.
Turn the grenade kit into a grenade launcher kit. No more targeting the ground until every engineer develops carpal tunnel. Grenades would travel an arch similar to glueshot and do aoe damage when they first make contact with a target.
It’s kinda cool, makes me feel like I swim really fast. There’s nothing like firing a missile, popping elixir B, then swimming side by side said missile. It’s like an escort, or missile shield if you will.
You wrote ten+ paragraphs just to say they need to allow people to see each others’ fractal level?
I somewhat agree that this patch will make “show me your agony resist, 15+ agony only, blah blah blah” a common feature, but they needed to do something. I think they could have limited it tiers, because that’s when difficulty really jumps.
But I could careless because I’ll finally be running fractals with my guild/friends and not the pubs.
There are 2 things any high level fractal runner needs in their inventory, Ash Legion Spy Kits, and Potions of Elemental Slaying. Potent Potions of Elemental Slaying cost less than 10copper each, and the -8% elemental damage makes a huge difference. Also very helpful during the snowblind fractal, and the elemental at the end of dredge. It’s actually very surprising how seldom food use is as well, unless its magic find. Even if you buy the cheap stuff, with like +70 toughness or something, that’s a huge difference.
If you’ve played the other professions, it becomes so blatantly obvious how bad Engineers are. There isn’t a single thing they can do that another class can’t do better and easier. I seriously wish I never made any alts, and I could still be blindly defending Engineer’s with the rest of the fanboys. But, its too late for me. I already played a warrior until 80.
This build is months old. It’s most effective use is for farming Orr when you don’t feel like actually playing, and just want to get taps on everything. The only reason this build is somewhat good is because it uses the same trait paths as pistol/pistol. Otherwise, its pure garbage, along with every other flamethrower build.
I’m sorry you took all that time making a recording of you reading tooltips.
Spvp. hes criting for 900 vs a guardian at 4:55 with rifle 1.
Pve/wvw.
Farm up 25 stacks of bloodlust with an alt rifle, swap to a sigil of battle rifle for killing.
food, oils.
0/30/0/10/30
enjoy.
rifle, TK, rifle turret. elixir S Massive burst, lost of escape tools.
I’ve used this build a lot, it doesn’t come close to this type of damage. Believe me I love my Engineer, I’m just in favor of better balance between the classes. Anyway, my challenge still stands.
“We want the Warrior to be capable of good melee damage in a sturdy body. They can still do some decent damage at range.”
ANET is so far off in balancing the classes its amazing. There is no way you can justify the nerf when there are classes out there that are astronomically better.
Most people are mad about the damage nerf because Engineers suck. I have over 500+ hours into mine and its my main. I used to defend the profession all the time talking about how awesome they are. But then I started creating alts. It didn’t take long to realize that the other professions can do everything engineers can and then some, while dealing more damage with good survivability. Right now the Engineer is just a buggy class with no real role. It just didn’t make sense to nerf grenade damage, the one thing that made us decent.
It just seems like Engineers are just a gimmick.
Oh sweet a flamethrower! Then you use it and its bugged to kitten and does terrible damage.
What? Bombs? That’s awesome! Basically like being a melee class that has a timed delay on each swing of the sword. Plus one hundred blades has a bigger AOE radius.
Wrench? I’m not even sure what this does.
Elixir Gun? Wow that looks cool! Did that just hit for 200? Well I’ll try some of its other skills, hmmm 300, wtf?
So yes when you throw out words like “viable,” we want builds that are viable in terms of other professions. Not “viable” in the sense that I can kill a risen in 10 minutes after I hit every button possible. Another thing that has always irked me, is why does poison volley have such kittenty accuracy. Warrior Rifle 3 is a kitten laser beam, but PDV you gotta be in melee range if you want each one to hit.
“We normally try to employ metered and controlled balance changes with each pass, rather than huge reductions or improvements to classes. We want to get all classes on the same playing field, and we want to avoid “whack-a-mole” style balance. HUGH increases and HUGE decreases lead to meta instability, and thusly, we try to make multiple small tweaks rather than putting in massive changes that we have to later correct.”
I don’t see how 30% reduction cannot be viewed as a HUGE decrease. Hell, I’d be mad at a 10% decrease due to where engineers fall in terms of other classes.
Super elixir was literally the only way I was surviving in the upper fractal tiers. I knew Engineers were crap but at least I was bringing a great heal for my group.
I understand that they want people using other kits besides grenades, but those kits needed a buff, instead of nerfing grenades.
I don’t want to give up on my engineer after spending 500+ hours getting all the weapon skins and cool stuff I wanted. But, my level 40 warrior out damages him, out heals him, out buffs, etc. It’s pretty stupid.
My topic got closed so I guess it goes here, even though we had no problem getting in.
Server: overflow
Dungeon: Fractals of the Mist/Cata Sum
We defeated the ravaging asura and got the chest. But there wasn’t a cutscene, and it didn’t take us to the next fractal. Anyone ever encountered this bug? This was also the third fractal and we had to 4-man it on level 20. Not sure why I keep coming back to Fractals when terrible stuff like this can happen.
We defeated the ravaging asura and got the chest. But there wasn’t a cutscene, and it didn’t take us to the next fractal. Anyone ever encountered this bug? This was also the third fractal and we had to 4-man it on level 20. Not sure why I keep coming back to Fractals when terrible stuff like this can happen.
since we’re on the topic of fractals, can you change the exotics that drop from the reward to not be account bound?
No, save them until you get 4 and you can mystic forge them into a non-account bound exotic. Or use them on an alt.
edit: and to answer OP’s question
Game Director Colin: "We’ve got people working specifically on this issue, it has turned out to be much more complicated due to the way fractals are implemented than we hoped. We’ll have a fix for this soon as it’s tested enough we think it’s clearly solved and doesn’t cause any other issues.
We are at least a week and a half away on a fix for this, possibly longer depending on how long it takes to test it properly, we wouldn’t want to deploy anything that makes the issue worse!
Thanks for your patience, we wish this one was super easy! =)"
They definitely need to allow people to rejoin. But 40 fractals and level 5? That’s some terrible luck. I’ve probably done around 40 and have only had 3-4 people disconnect.
The most frustrating part for me is if there’s a bug that benefits the player, they fix it right away. But, if it’s not beneficial they will just leave it be and never fix it. I get it, they don’t want people exploiting, they want them to do it as it was designed. This is getting out of hand though, the game is going to be ridiculous in a couple months due to compounding bugs that are never fixed.
I’m missing gold too, same with other people according to LA map chat. I think it has something to do with the TP earlier, if you tried to purchase anything. Hopefully we get refunded.
