Guild Wars 2

Engineer is getting more and more useless as much as the Arena.net team working on their own game.
Suggestion to arena.net : Why don’t you just delete few classes and just keep Warrior, Mesmer, Thief?

In term of pvp.
I still have in my mind this question…
What does the engineer really have??

You might say he has a bit of control with the rifle.
But when i compare with other class : they actually all have some.
Or also condition damage.
but i clearly think he is not the best to make efficient damage.
General damage is not that good :
the best crit I’ve ever done is around 3k.
Different kits that make you versatile : but does that make you better ?

I’ve tried mesmer and thief today following some build i’ve found on youtube.
I was using skills without really knowing what they do.
And it’s just so simple. lots of damage. if something goes wrong I would use furtivity and come back later.

Punk Rogue.9856:

Ferum Flamebender.5910:

Let’s face it.
Engineers are just not finished.
What is your point of view?

I was surprised at this post. The whole way up to 80 I felt that Engineer was over powered and probably going to be nerfed at some point. I’ve been trying thief, guardian, and elementalist and so far I’ve been struggling to pull of the dps that came so naturally to my engineer. When I reached 80 I still had some level 24 gear that I figured I’d upgrade if I found something better or came up against something that gave me any trouble.

Overall I just thought the game was made to be easy. Until I tried those other characters. Being afraid of 2 enemies at the same time when my Engineer was taking on 5 at a time at this point was an eye opener.

I don’t want this to sound like a “How great am I” commentary, I think it was all in the Engineer class that gave me that power.

For any struggling Engineers, go with Inventions, turrets, flamethrower, and pistols and you should do fine. At 80 I switched up to grenades and explosives and holy cow it puts my pistol damage to shame.

I think most of us are quite agree to say engineer is an easy class to reach lvl 80 however in pvp it’s another story.

bhansen.7251:

Im not saying that all builds are equally good, but i still play my engineer as my main and i think its one of the most powerfull classes currently in the game, even with the bugged skills and traits. I have about 6k wvw kills with most of those being solo. I have lost 1 1v1 fight in all my time spent in wvw and most 1v1 is just a 1-sided fight with my apponent being immobolized till dead.
Why people think its a crappy class is beyond my understanding. Its on par with the mesmer and stronger then the thief. I dont know what the hell u guys are doing, but its wrong. When our traits gets fixed its gonna be even more faceroll when i play it. My personal record is to beat 7v1 in wvw. Sure they were baddies, but even 7 baddies should kill 1 guy.
Learn your spec/skills and rotations. Learn your apponents.

Everyone in wvw haven’t got a character lvl 80 with full stuff exo.
I personnally have my main lvl 47. There is no gain for me to go in wvw for the moment.
In spvp (i know it’s kind of a mess) everyone has quite the same equipment and engineer requires a lot of effort if you compare it with others classes which sometimes just spam 1 button when i need to switch kits, use combo, etc.

I really expect some improvements concerning the engineer in the next patch.
Engineer really needs an increase of damage generally or being able to survive longer.
comparing to most of the other classes, engineer needs much more abilities to be played.
And even after that, engineer can be still an easy target.
I’ve tried to play thief for 1hour in spvp and by using skills without knowing really what they do or even spamming I did much better and finish first generally.

JonPeters.5630:

How about fewer sharks, please!

Coming soon(about 2 weeks) to a game near you…

How about you find class balance under water?
Such as the thief who is spamming the skill 5 allowing dodging continually?!

question : In alchemy I’ve always played with the master rank and put the trait point 10 “Cleaning formula (409) throwing or consuming elixirs removes conditions from those affected”
I’m quite sure before the halloween patch it used to remove all the condition.
But now it only remove 1 condition.
I might be wrong. Just asking?

When I see that arenanet is thinking about e.sport. I believe before thinking about esport they should improve the spvp.
Because who would pay, who would be interested participating these matches with all the bad stuffs we can all see in spvp.
First of all the movement of the camera is just awfull. without saying the fireworks happening on my screen with all the effects coming from gardian, mesmer, elem : it’s just so much happening : who is able to know what player are you targeting?
Classes are not equal in pvp : see what I usually have with my print screen.