Guild Wars 2

I didn’t play engineer years; because at every patch, it was getting nerfed non-stop. I plan to return to game but I want to ask this.

I remember a time that engineers were not wanted in dungeons and raids in pve; because of the nerfs, the engineer was became useless and do low damage. For pvp, it was not so good comparing to other classes long time ago as I remember again. So, I was left the game long time ago.

Is it still fun to play engineer and how is engineer effective in pve and pvp in 2017 ?

The returned players like me can survive in current game or no point to come back to play guild wars 2 at all ?

engineer is so bad against other good gear classes by good players at arena pvp and wvw. engineer cannot win against most of classes most of times. It is the truth ;and arenanet is still nerfing engineer at every patch and giving useless buffs ;but no nerfs to other classes and giving them good buffs at every patches !!! Is it fair ? The answer is " NO " !!!! THis thread opened 7 months ago ;and we still didn’t get any answers from arenanet to solve these major problems !!! they don2t care this game and engineer class at all !!! because of this more and more players are leaving gw2 !!!! I am sick of getting kill by other classes so easily even how much I effort at pvp !!! and the end game is too empty – nothing to do really . bored to do wvw and dungeons and fractals … I have legendaty rifle – full accessories – full gear. end game is so bad now for me at pve and pvp !!! everything is still same at gw2 for 2 years… patches are useless…

I don’t have problem with my engineer and its build ( I love my engineer ). I have problem when I engage with mesmer or thief or any other good geared good players on the arenas/wvw They are bursting too much damage instant to me. I have 17.000 hp ;and when I got hit by these characters My hp is going down to between 8000 and 9000 hp with 2 hits… if I get some more successfull hits I almost die ;and evantually I die… If you don’t believe me I will gonna put the video while my friend and me were on the WvW yesterday ( he is necro and he can survive and kill more than me at zergs/group/solo pvp on wvw or arenas ) !!! When he saw how my hp goes down too fast he accepted my concern/problem after that. My gear is good too ( legendary rifle and so on ). I am full dps stat build ( 30-30-0-0-10 ) ;so I can maximize the damage output. Even my hp pool and defense are not so good comparing to toughness and vitalit ;but in return I should give good damage against to opponents. However, escpecially the classes or others if I cannot get down their hp like they have done to me at WvW how these things are possible ? if their build is a defense build they should lose from offensive damage ( even their build is hybrid ;because full offensive build should give more than a hybrid build in general ) ;but when I hit them I hard to down their hp and I hard to defeat them ,however they kill me in a 10 sec with giving instant too much damage with a few hits. Is it normal ? The answer is " NO ". If you are so good on your engineer and believing you can beat any of other fully geared good players ( mesmer – thief – elementalist – guardian – necromancer – ranger with your engineer ,even how much your engineered geared or you know what to do with your build at 1vs1 or wvw or arenas !!! ). Other classes has more escape and bursting more damage more faster abilities than engineer – it is for sure !!! If you believe yourself engineer is good comparing other classes in pve – pvp – wvw SHOW us here with some video experiences ;then I can learn where I am lack really ;and stop these questions to you on engineer forum !!!.

Then, we need some real buffs – not nerfs or useless buffs …

anyone would give me some advice plz against mesmer and thiefs at wvw and arenas pvp ? I cannot kill these 2 classes most of time at 1 vs 1 …

Thy hitting so hard and too mobile … how thy can give too much damage instant ???

why engineer’s hp is going down too fast while these 2 classes or other classes hps are not going down like engineer ? I tried toughness gear too but it didn’t help me at all. I tried bombs – grenades- rifle -pistol – flamethrower – turrents , nothing able to kill these 2 classes most of times !!! turrents are dying too fast already and bad damage – pistol rifle damage is same too… why we don’t get some real good buffs ( we getting useless buffs ) ??? and getting some nerfs all the time at every patches ?

someone please helps me to understand really. we are totally a support class comparing to other classes I tried most of builds and pvp is not so good on engineer. I spent lot2s of time on this character so I don’t want to give up on it.

At this december 10th patch – we will get nerfs again ;and get useless buffs again?

Turrents are still can be destroyable too easily at wvw and arenas and dungeons !!! So these buffs are useless ;and turrents are not giving good damage too…

Turrents’ cooldowns should be more less – rate of fire should be more faster – the damage given by turrnets should be more really !!!

Once the enemy come near you at engineer – you die too fast for sure ;and enemy is giving better damage than you : instant much damage !!! If I am wrong say it here too…

coglin.1867 :
" And what nerfs did we get? Idiotic buffs? I will take a range buff to any of my skills any day of the week. "

coglin.1867 , say us here now. The range will help you kill the current classes at wvw and pvp arenas ? answer is no. your turrents are useless at wvw and pvp now ;because thy can be destroyable too easily !!! your brain can get it ? ncsoft and arenanet should increase the damage done by turrents and make them more durable. ncsoft nerfed the rocker lancher’s damage … grenades are less usefull right now too.

look at grenade barrage = you throw grenades the place you falled down; ncsoft made a buff on this passive skill ;but where can you use this idiot buff ? will you jump down from fortress into enemy to make some 6-7 grenades’ damage on enemy ? answer is no again !!! look at tool kit ; I don’t use it personally, and the buffs are useless too. It is close range and it is not usefull on pvp too ( only pull skill and block skill is nice ;but it is really hard to change tools all the time to use some certain skills… so I prefer not to change tools all the time – I try to stick with one-two tools something. harpoon turrent buff which is useless buff – how many places can we use this buff ? hard to fight into water – there is no naval battles ( there is no such thing in game ;but I want to see that function ingame too ) or under water pvp most of time. grenade buffs only make the dots’ area more clear which was not so necessary to get such non-sense buffs…

tell me about an usefull buffs here ? answer is nothing ;and we nefred again too !!!

why other classes are not getting nerf so hard always like engineer ? if you check other classes’ buffs and nerfs ; engineer is getting worse buffs and best nerfs at every patches !!!

engineer is not buffed… we got nerfed ; the current buffs are useless at pvp and wvw…

how does " blast finisher " work ? when we need to use it to get 25 might ? which skills are giving " blast finisher " ? thanks.

To get maximum damage output while using flamethrower :

1)
What build I need to use ? ( to which traits I should give points ? ).

2)
Which armor set I should wear ? ( which stat set I need ? ).

3)
Which stats I should focus on more ? ( precision-power-condition damage/duration-toughness ? ).

Whould you help me please ? thanks.

Engineer is not so good at pvp and pve comparing to other classes,

When will you fix engineer at pvp and pve ? I cannot burst instant much damage to players or npc like other dps classes. WHY ? I saw geared engineer ;and geared other dps classes too – I must say that engineer is useless comparing to other dps classes on giving damage ;and at most of dungeons players don’t prefer egnineers ;so hard to get in groups !!! Will ncsoft fix it at next patch ? I hardly to kill an enemy player even 1 by 1 at WvW and arenas ( but I die fast ) ;because they are giving more damage faster than I … Anyone would write which gear ( armor – weapon – accessories ) is best for engineer ; which trait options is best for engineer ? how should I play at arenas and WvW ( which role play mostly ) ? thanks. I love my engineer ;but ncsoft didn2t fix the engineers ,even how much time passed at gw2 ).

( engineer needs new more powerful skills ; and buffs to currrent skills too ;because non of the traits don’t make engineer good at giving damage at pve and pvp )

when will you fix engineer at pvp and pve ? I cannot burst instant much damage to players or npc like other dps classes. WHY ? I saw geared engineer ;and geared other dps classes too – I must say that engineer is useless comparing to other dps classes ;and at most of dungeons players don’t prefer egnineers ;so hard to get in groups !!! Will you fix it at next patch ? thanks.

( engineer needs new more powerful skills ; and buffs to currrent skills too ;because non of the traits don’t make engineer good at giving damage at pve and pvp )

I was disappointed when the GW2 released first. I was played for 3-4 weeks maximum ( I was made my character to lvl 80 within 7days too like other hardcore players. However, the end game was not so good ( before too late ) I was given up from GW2. How it was before ( in my opinion ) ? :

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When I was reached lvl 80 with my engineer and there were nothing to do at endgame
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Hard to do dungeons ;because hard to gather or find players to do it ( if you don’t have friends )
3)
Nerf ed the engineer class ;because of crying babies…
4)
WvW battlegrounds were not so good…. who has bigger zerg they owned you all the time
5)
Open World pvp was bad.
6)
Class balances were not so good really.
7)
Events were really bad ;and they nerfed some dailies too back then.

I was loving to play with my turrents but they are not so good at pvp really which was really suck.

I want to return to GW2 again ;but I want to know that everything is still same at GW2 ? :

1)
How is the endgame now ?
2)
Are there enough players at servers to do pve and pvp activities ?
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Which server is the most crowded and active ?
4)
Are they buffed the engineer some how in a good way ?
5)
Did we get any new skills ?
6)
People are doing World Bosses more often now ?
7)
How is the events in game now ?

Please, someone enlightens me about all of my questions, thanks.

http://www.lineage2.com/en/

I realy don’T understand; why ncsoft doesn’t care lineage 2 ? they should bring lineage 3 . If lineage 3 comes I am saying this for sure " all other mmos’ population decreasing always… ".

In my opinion, arenet should do all kits + using different weapons might be useable in pvp with different play style that we want to play.

Current situation is not so good. If you want to go pvp with engineer ,you always should go with regular tactics and traits build. You cannot use your flamethrower properly ,or your grenade kit properly, or playing with turrents ( there is always lack on sth at the pvp style we want to play at engineer for sure ). It is not so nice realy. We got nerfs too, thx to crying babies ingame… Other classes are more lucky I must say. Balance is realy bad at this game…

WvW is crap realy. Lineage 2 ’s siege battles are much more better than here I must say realy. At lineage 2 – a good player can change the direction of the battle ;but at gw2 – it only looks at to number of zerg you have on your team. I hope thy bring lineage 3 for sure ; or adding more features to lineage 2 – adding jumping ;and putting evading options etc. After you reach lvl 80- game becoming meaningless realy. I will return to lineage 2 realy ;or I will wait the archage. The guilds here have no purpose in game realy. At lineage 2 there is always something to do realy. at gw2 -lvl 80 event systems for karma is realy bad. It only makes the game more boring. Dungeons are not so good -if we compare it with lineage 2.

I wish to play more with my turrents ingame ;but coz of cooldown it is realy hard to play…

What will you gonna say guys about the nerfs on engineer ?

I love to use grande kit ;but it is realy weak at pvp ( the usage of this kit on pvp is realy hard to manage ). If we throw 4-5 grenades at the same time; with more distant like 1800 range ,it sould be more better.

With trait the range goes to 1500 range ;but it doesn’t help all the time; because enemy players are always mobile- generally they rush into you. Throwing 3 grenades with trait passive skill is not usefull .We should throw like 4-5 grenades with higher radius. Because when you throw the grenades they don’t reach the targeted location instant ( Already targetting a location to grenade all the time needs realy too much effort ).

Why I use my current grenade build ? because it seems more usefull at WvW than other kit builts now. Even this, grenade kit has many lacks now about exploding radius of grenades , the amount of thrown grenades and the range. These three options must be buff ed.

What do you think about it my suggestion, mates ? thx.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/Underpowered-Engineer-It-is-realy-bad-at-pvp-and-pve/first#post90998

You can check my post here; more detailed

If some of the turrents’ apperances should be more crizmatic it will be awesome too. I wish like to see more realistic turrents ;and I wish like to see more new Turrents. Inaddition ,for me, engineer needs a skill like that supply box ( it will spawn 3-4 turrents at the same time again ) with less cooldown than our normal supply box skill.
I have realy cool ideas : only engineer can build the bunkers ; there will be 2 guns turrent and above it there will be a rocket launcher. Engineer might able to make tanks for WvW battlefields. Or engineer might put some shields on the ground ( material will be made by wooden or metalic ).
Plz Guild Wars 2 developer team, make engineer with more realistic turrent appearance . It is same for pistols and rifles and clothes too plz, thx.

In the near future -after a nice research about engineer , I will going to make a new post about : "what kind of a nice new traits features might be come with new skills ". Actually ,our engineer’s tool belt skin icon represent it very nice ^^ . I am waiting your comments about this new idea/ content here too.

which class are you getting at 1 vs 1 at pvp battlegrounds ? I know how to play my engineer : 30 trait points to firearms -30 trait points to elixir – 10 trait points to explosive.

http://gw2.luna-atra.fr/skills_tool/?lang=en&code=3e0000000000000000au0u09taaacb6b7b9ka

I said that " engineer’s dungeon explorer mode ( pve ) is bad ( bad means here , it is not too bad / worse- it is still playable ) ;but engineer’s dps/survivability against mobs there is not good as other dps classes or any classes at the party.

Have you ever tried Arah EM ? Try to do Arah Explorer Mode- Do you think that you kill the last boss’s insects minions solo ( or giving more better ,fast damage like other dps classes there ) ? Answer is realy hard. Your chance is lower than others there. If you want links I can provide many of them to you.

For pvp, which classes are you getting in pvp battleground ? If I am realy wrong plz say:
I am talking about 1 vs 1 here now ( without knowing which trait build you have )

1) Thief = hard to get them. if no, plz explain why ?
2) Warrior = hard to get them. if no, plz explain why ?
3) Guardian = hard to get them. if no, plz explain why ?
4) Ranger = 50%-50% you can get them. if no, plz explain why ?
5) Mesmer = shortly hard to get them- you confusing too much and generaly you use your skills unnecessarily .if no, plz explain why ?
6) Necromancer = 50%-50% you can get them. if no, plz explain why ?
7) Elementalist = It depands on which traits elementalist is using ;but there is %50 chance to win again. if no, plz explain why ?

From these seven classes :
Are you able to say certainly that " I am the anti of ……. class .I always can get whenever I see that class at 1 vs 1 " ? The answer is no ;but this game’s other classes players can say this : " I can get this class for sure " .

Realy rare players who comment here have understood me ; for other rest ,I think you didn’t get the point I was trying to explain. If I am saying something wrong here Plz correct me, thx.

There are only two places to do pvp at this game : PvP Battlegrounds and WvW

For WvW , you have more chance to defeat players at 1 vs 1 . Eventhough, your chance to get defeat/kill by invaders there still more higher than other classes. Plz don’t say me realy : "engineer is a balanced class " . At zerg you already die ( it was an example- ofc everyone/every class dies at zerg ) – at 2 vs 1 you die again.

For example : If the enemy attacks to your fortress or castle , in the meantime if you are not at your turrents trait , you cannot do anything .Turrent trait gives your turrents and mortar range which is realy too important at Fort defence. WvW is every alive ;so engineer is not always helping as a support class there ( you cannot change you traits all the time at WvW battlefield ). For other classes ,staying in a certain trait build is enough to handle this battlefield environment difficulties.

Actually I love to play with my turrent build ;but it is not too good for pvp so I left it :-(

At WvW elementalist-rangers and warrior/guardian classes are the best ones. It is the truth. Elementalist-rangers aoe I love it ;because realy awesome aoe damage^^.

I was pointed at my post . Engineer is a support class ;but even you are a support class you need more defensive ;or offensive skills to cover yourself. If I know wrong plz correct me again engineer mates. Our major-important skills cooldown’s are generally more higher than other classes skills ? For me , yes it is . If someone is going to say its opposite Plz enlighten us / me here plz.

I hope with my this comment My post content has become more clear, thx. And Thank you for all your comments ,I love you all^^ See you ingame- cya.

If you have more questions and answers .I will be glad to discuss all of your ideas with you.^^ I love brainstorm ( ing ).

You can ask whatever you want to learn about engineer- I can answer all your questions -and we can do some brainstorm how we might help engineer class . What of buffs it needs or What kind of tactics we might pursue at this current situation of the engineer. Thank you for reading or viewing my topic.

Engineer might be burst some damage if you use haste elixir ( which is realy usefull- you reload time speed has been increased like 100% which you can use your skills realy fast ) ; and harmfull – you get %50 more damage and it lasts only for 5 seconds and it has 60 min. cooldown- if you didn’t go to alchemy traits. At this 5 seconds only you can make some damage only otherwise you give less damage with less speed ( I was mentioned above that I felt the reload time speed on pistols… ). At pve lvl ing ,engineer is the fasted class to reach lvl 80- you can kill high lvl mobs reaky easily with your turrents. But it changes when you reach to lvl 80 dungeons -It is realy another storry I must say . I must say that your turrents destroying by mobs/bosses realy fast ; you realy hard to kill the adds or normal mobs there . At pvp , coz of less mobility and survivability and giving less damage -you generally dies at 1 vs 1 ;or 1 vs 2. If someone stunned you or immobilize you- you can say it for sure -I am death… Shortly ,engineer needs some real usefull buffs

Before I start to my topic; I realized something at my explosive shot’ reload speed has been nerf ( It was not like that before ). Now when I shoot a target I give less damage coz of speed nerf. Maybe you felt it too, anyway. let’s return to the topic now.

Underpowered Engineer – It is realy bad at pvp and pve ( dungeons ) coz of the less survivability ;or giving less damage -comparing with other classes

I love my engineer actaully ;but when I enter/go to pvp zones I defeat a player realy hard generally at 1 vs 1 ; survivability is realy low for engineers . I tried many combiantions ,for example:
1) Turrent based offense and defense combination which is failing generally ;because of less mobility and once your turrents have been destoryed you always die for sure.
Because of the long cooldowns of turrents ;and thy can be destroy every fast with aoe skills by many classes- I tried it and clever/known the tactic players doing it ).
About traits at this combination. 30 to explosives , 30 to inventions , 10 to Alchemy . It seems realy nice ;but not working at pvp mostly.
I checked some of the other classes ;and their skills cooldown ,I must say that , it is realy less than engineer. It is not fair to engineer class players who are playing this class
2) About Elixirs based flamethrower or acid guns combinations. It might be fun ;but it has realy low chance to defend yourself at close combat and long range combat which doesn’T give the damage as fast as we were giving at turrent based damage.
Opposite side players know it and they use this advantage to us. I am using this trait combination for it : 30 firearms – 30 inventions ( for toughness and more healing- engineer is realy need it , I was tried without toughness -engineer becomes realy piece of cake then ) and last 10 trait points you can give whereever you want at other traits.
I realy must say ,the balance between classes are not equal realy . I played my engineer at beta too ;and developers were said we will fix ( buffing the engineer ) engineer ;but still, it didn’t happen yet.
Elementalist is strong , thief is realy strong at 1 vs 1 , warrior is OP , guardian doesn’t die that easy -even against to 3-4 players , mesmer is realy hard class to defeat, ranger has realy nice damage to defend itself, I hate necro’s pets-draining your blood all the time with its aoe-a nice defense mecanism it still has.
Only the engineer is lack something at defense and offense – something is realy lack. I made my engineer lvl 80 within one week- engineer is realy awesome at pve and it is realy fun ;however at pvp it is not that much strong. The beta testers knows ,you might hear too , engineer pvp is like a joke realy : (http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/33786-engineer-pvp-is-a-joke-beta/ )
Some of you might say that engineer has a support role – even how much a character seems has a support role -you need at least some more defense or attack to protect yourself. Throwing elixirs to selected areas all the time takes time for boons ( even it, it takes a few seconds- at pvp these seconds are important too at your survivability. that is to say ,at engineer the explosive skills/ elixir skills- grenade skills- mines-elixirs -you always select a place to throw these skills- it realy takes time and concentration ingame ( at pvp ). It is the reality realy.
Some of you might say again , open a new character . I am sorry but I will not gonna open the 50% of the map- do the same quests , start crafting, getting pvp rank- getting WvW point etc. again anad again. As an engineer it is not my problem realy to fix this imbalance character(s) at game . It is the problem of GW2 developers and they must do it realy fast about to engineer class. Me or other engineer players realy want to learn what are you thinking about and what are you going to do this issue ? I have some realy nice solutions to fix it (we can talk it at this toptic realy with listening everyone’s and developers ideas too).

I was made this topic at the 2nd week ;but there was no link for engineer so ,GM was removed my post ; I put it now. I am using 30 alchemy- 30 firearm -10 explosive traits now . It working well ;but not enough sor survivability. I realy don’t get it ,why this game is too unbalance about classes ? engineer is underpowered it is the truth. If GW2 developers realy cares what we write here at forum- they should change this underpowered engineer class realy. I am realy bored to die by warriors/elementalist/thief/ranger hands !!!! at pvp grounds and WvW at 1 by 1 -I generally lose…. coz of this underpowered class

by MechatronicEngineer Gandara server

I am engineer class ; engineer is losing to almost all classes…. wtf realy mates. engineer is the worse pvp class ever . you can check my engineer topic from here too :

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Engineer-is-lack-something-on-pvp-realy-read-it-then-you-will-understand-what-I-mean-thx