Someone mentioned telegraph of engi skills compared to warrior’s…
Kits have specific looks for telegraph. Elixir gun and Flamethrower are quite obvious. If you see an engi equip the flamethrower, expect the knockback. Maybe if you can’t see these you need Anet to add little icons for you like Ele attunements.
The bomb kit is a little harder to see since there is nothing in the hands, but bombs have delays on detonation, especially the Big Ol’ Bomb that knocks you back. You have time!
Rifle’s overcharge shot doesn’t have a good telegraph because, as an escape mechanism/gap creator with the self-knockback, it is supposed to be insta-cast.
And if talking about the knockback from Accelerant-Packed Turrets, which is 10 points in Explosives not even in the reference build posted above, there’s the animation of placing turrets before they get detonated.
As for the build posted as reference above, that’s only one way to build a decap engi. You should come up with a different name for that build, maybe AR/heal bomb decap engi. I’ve seen people using it I guess. I stay out of the bomb AoE and DPS them down with my flamethrower, applying poison from elixir gun and pistol before the 25% mark to give them a hard time healing. Most people running that build have a hard time with timing the AR.
Every single one of your points are all about a bad Engineer against a good player who can predict that the moron will use the skill as soon as they get in range or swap sets. Yes bad Engineers do 2,3,4,5 with Bomb Kit and makes it obvious when the most dangerous bomb with confusion should be avoided but good ones simply won’t be predictable. They do not have to push as soon as they swap, they can bait your dodges since its impossible to skill dodge them. If they use turrets they can once again detonate it at any time without any animation and if they use rifle with Net Turret you will most likely not have the dodges necessary to avoid the sheer amount of immobilizes till he wants to detonate at any point. This stuff is like the same as trying to avoid a ranged Backstab that does full damage from any side and doesn’t require stealth to give you an example of how dumb Engineer is right now.
(edited by glaphen.5230)