Guild Wars 2

I play a level 80 Guardian. I just celebrated my character’s first birthday a few days ago. I have somewhat recently decided to try out some other classes, just to broaden my horizons and break out of the Guardian mindset. So I tried out the Elementalist. Fun to play, I dig the speed piano shtick, but a little squishy for my taste. I like to be right in my enemy’s face, if I can help it. Mesmer is also fun, but again, light armor just doesn’t do it for me. So I tried out the engineer. Looks like fun! Lots of options, medium armor, so I can take a few hits, the weapon choices suck, but KITS will make up for it, right? So I’m level 20, having fun with my flamethrower, but getting the snot kicked out of me, ‘cause I haven’t spent any trait points, and I pause to take a look at my traits.

… What?
How does anybody survive at level 80!? Your traitline is awful. You have to spend 25 points for 1% extra damage per boon? And so far as I’ve seen, it’s not like the Engineer is a class that generates a butt ton of boons. Also, 10% extra damage when your endurance bar is full. But… I’m in medium armor. I need to dodge. Shouldn’t this be for a heavy armor class? Seriously, how often is this actually useful? For the first second-and-a-half of any fight.

Also, your skills! The way I see it, you have four major sets of skills.
KITS, which work, but honestly, they’re the only things that do. Which is sad. Only a quarter of your abilities are useful. Also, my Quaggan backpack. D;
ELIXIRS, which are based almost entirely on luck. Very unreliable.
TURRETS, which DON’T WORK. Like, at all. Overcharge works less than half the time, and they won’t even target the fire elemental. Or any other world boss, from what I understand.
GADGETS, Which are mostly only useful for moving you around. Honestly, I see why everybody forgets about them.

My dear boyfriend plays an Engineer, and has since the beginning of GW2, and I’ve seen how the Engineer community responds to all of the problems.
Just because you don’t use turrets, doesn’t mean that they’re not still broken. A large chunk of your skills are absolutely FILLED TO THE BRIM with problems. That doesn’t bother you?
Just sayin’.

Anyway, all in all the Engineer would be better with the addition of some new weapons, some SERIOUS bugfixin’, and maybe some traits that better suit a medium armor class. Maybe I only feel this way because I play a fully functional class, but this is what I see.

Turrets, man. Help them.

It really did have the potential to be a fun Hallowe’en event, but being slaughtered by dozens of enemies while playing “Simon Says” was not what I’d had in mind.

Lunatic Inquisition wasn’t particularly fun either. Again, potential, but it felt unbalanced, and just overall left much to be desired. I think I’ll stick to Keg Toss.

@levelnine
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