Was in wvw today and getting hit harder by the guardian staff than my ft could ever put out. plus it hits 5 ppl with farther range and has better team support :/ I got crit for 1.4k from one hit from it.
Maybe they could make it so the ft 1 does more damage the longer you get hit by it. So each tick does slightly more damage to the last hit where it does max damage kinda like now except each hits multiplies the damage. Right now i’m lucky to break 150 damage a hit with the thing unless the person is downed then i’m better of just staking them.
maybe the ft should give torment or something like how the elixir gun gives permanent weakness. Makes sense since you wouldn’t want to fan the flames if you were on fire I don’t know. I don’t think they’ll make it so you get perma burn from the auto because of the 10% damage buff it gets when an enemy is on fire. Also would like to see number 4 and 5 be fields. Another post had a good idea on making 5 player based like necro plague that would be interesting too.
this is steamhawke’s grenade/SD build. i prefer personal battering ram over rifle turret. you can go exploit weakness or accelerant packed turrets for the explosives adept trait as they changed incendiary powder. if you go accelerant packed turrets, maybe consider using rifle turret and use healing turret
They actually toned retal down a bit awhile back. I do agree that it not good when you get return damage for more than your putting out. Not really a flamethrower thing but I remember shooting my coated pistol into a blob once and almost getting downed from the first shot.
A complex and innovative combat system comes with a price; that is client and server lag at massive pvp fights. If GW2 combat system was dumbed down to a level of average MMO it sure would run 10 times better.
like this is the only game with large combat that lags out. when will companys just spend the time to optimize more and spend some money on better servers.
awhile back I was pulled straight up into the air and out over the wall from inside the courtyard not even on the wall though I think it was siegerazer that did it. havn’t seen anything that crazy for awhile though.
No thats called lag lol. No skill can lift you. I often jump off walls to the inside of a keep, only to end up outside when landing. Quite hilarious.
Mesmer pulls are powerfull, but if you cant handle going outside the keep without dying, the keep is already lost. Or you’re a weaksauce zerker, whatever.
it might have been lag, but that’s exactly how it appeared to me straight up and over the wall.
awhile back I was pulled straight up into the air and out over the wall from inside the courtyard not even on the wall though I think it was siegerazer that did it. havn’t seen anything that crazy for awhile though.
Easiest spot to test this, I think, would be on the Archivist final encounter, where an FT could tank the fight by strafing around the square pillar on the right side of the Archivist as you run in. The change will likely negate this.
Or just attacking siege placements through gates, which is how I usually use my Engineer when defending towers in WvW.
If true this kind of sucks, but is acceptable.
I’m just too happy about Crystalline Dust being salvaged through Globs of Ecto to really care about the balance changes. I just feel bad for the couple people that completed their Gift of Mastery recently in my guild that had to spend 38 silver per Dust.
They already said that the sPvP patch later this month is where the balancing changes will happen, anyway. This patch was mostly bug-fixes and Dragon Bash-related.
well it better apply to siege too then arrow carts inside lord room at hills i’m looking at you.
with retaliation Flamethrower kills you in seconds its stupid…
I love how you take more damage from retaliation per hit than you dish out with the flame thrower. Also if you take the pistol piercing trait it’s the same thing you just nuke yourself.
Could just imagine tossing those into a zerg and watching them get blasted around if they don’t have stability. Aside from the fact there was 5 of them how are more powerfull than the traps on a ranger?
Yeah the ft is pretty impressive to look at just needs something more. My ft changes make #2 a blast finisher #5 a short smoke field and #1 small buff in damage or a faster attack speed shorten the channel or something.
And now we wear med armor and do the same damage or less. (nerfed)
The armor difference between heavy and medium armor is literally 147 Toughness.
I prefer that the Engineer is a medium armor class. Trenchcoats fit Engineers more than plated shoulders.
All I’m saying is if the original intent was a low damage high toughness class shouldn’t the damage been tweaked a little when that extra armor was taken? I could go on but there’s so many other threads on this and other nerfs and the op wants to talk about something else..
I just love the flammenwerfer too much to just give up. Just sucks that retal does about 2x the damage you dish out with it with the auto attack. Hit 3 ppl with it and that’s like 900+ a tick.
Might duration no longer stacks with multiple runes.
Static Discharge: 2s Internal cool down.
409: 10s internal cool down.
Shrapnel Grande: Reduce Bleed duration 4-6s.
Bug Fixes:
Fix “miss” from blow torch/FT (Again)
Flame Turret now works properly with Deployable Turrets.
Heard that they are not working on Gadgets. Turrets just received a “MASSIVE” buff and FT/EG have been nerfed too much so they will most likely be left alone. leaving very little room for “buffs”. Any buff’s will be completely unpredictable &unexpected at this point.
/agree
Though I’m not really seeing the flamethrower miss. it hits everything I point it at assuming I’m facing that way. It even hits doors now. Now if they would just stop nerfing and fix the things that don’t work….
FT 1 – Flame Jet. I have no major problem with this skill. I get 10 attacks and crit on 6 of them plus a very good burn. Add in Incendiary Ammo, and that first attack can really put a major hurt on an enemy.
But from a conceptual point of view… It should burn from the beginning. The direct DPS should be lowered and the burn made a 2-second burn of greater intensity (ie, it should be far more condition than impact).
FT2 – Flame Blast: Damage is fine, but it gets bugged. Too many times it shoots into the floor instead of up-the-slope. The DPS of it is ok, though it should be a BLAST FINISHER.
FT3 – Air Blast: It’s bugged or was nerfed without changing the tool-tip. It’s supposed to (according to the tooltip) put a 2-second burn on the target. I spent a good 45-minutes this AM in Frostgorge, Malchor’s Leap and Cursed Shore gathering and killed scores of enemies. Not once did it apply a burn.
FT4 – Napalm: Takes too long to fire. If you fire early, enemies dodge-roll through it or go around it. Therefore, no burn. If you fire later, the enemies have gotten to you before the line of flame gets out there.
FT5- Smoke Vent: It’s probably one of the most worthless skills in game as a single auto-attack from the weakest weapon in the game will negate the 5-second ‘blind.’ Making it worse, it has a TWENTY-SECOND COOLDOWN.
I have 8 characters and I use every #5 skill in every build/weapon set they have and find virtually all of them to be excellent to outstanding skills. Except this one which is as close to worthless as they come and not worth the 1-second animation time.
Bring back Backdraft. Or make it so it makes a 4-second smokescreen that grants protection from projectiles like the thief’s Smoke Screen which is actually useful!
air blast adds duration to a burn already in effect they worded the tool tip wrong.
I agree with ft5 such a long cool down for such a mediocre ability. I wish the burn on ft1 was with the first hit as well but if they did that might as well get rid of the 10% on burn damage and just buff the damage 10%. Flame throwers biggest problem is retaliation you basically nuke yourself if you hit the max 3 if they have retal up. I’ve did 90% of my health in one burst before I could react and stop.
@ Mints – yes, I had considered the combinations of blast finishers that were available with other classes. My goal with this was to try to generate the longest amount of area stealth based solely on engineer abilities. So comboing with a thief is not the answer I was looking for. Interesting perspective tho.
@ Linc – Ill look into the toolbelt, not sure exactly what you’re referring to here. Yes I believe the thief’s Shadow Refuge area stealth would stack, to a point. Stealth stacking has a cap.
@ Nilix – healing turret no longer provides blast finisher, not sure when that changed. I tested it many times and it doesn’t work any more. I’ll check out your other rotation info tho, thank you.
@ Eviator – healing turret doesn’t work as blast finisher. Interesting info on the flame turret overcharge, but it is really useless for this application as I am looking to do this out of combat. As for the suggestion of putting detonate mine down before the smoke bomb, again that negates the blast finisher for deploying the mine, not sure what you mean by ‘suggestion … is right’, if you could elaborate that would be great. As for you having done 18s, that’s great news, unfortunately all you do is describe the blast finishers and not the rotation you used. I am aware of the blast finishers that are available, what I’m looking for is detailed rotation information for a rotation that works, and would proved the 18s you suggest you’re able to provide.
I just tested the healing turret in game and it worked like it should… not sure what you are doing wrong. It gave me area stealth. I usually use it for the area heal.
I don’t think the mortar has any pro’s. Also I was messing around with it during a siege today and was feared off of it either it’s bugged or I wasn’t on it and thought I was.
Jump while kit swapping. OMG. I really can’t stand how many people are constantly saying that this build is dead. It’s so far from dead, it’s insane. Tool Kit got buffed. If you jump while kit swapping (with kit refinement) it doesn’t waste or use the spell. USE IT.
Jesus people. Come on.
I think some other threads mentioned that still incurs that cooldown even if it doesn’t trigger the effect from the kit.
Did they recently change our mortar skill? It is destroyed reasonably easy, and you can be knocked off of it. Thus demonstrating it has no stability what so ever, at least the last time I used it.
It gives stability when you use it. Though it still gets destroyed by one aoe within two hits.
It’s been 3/4 since I started a ranger. Coming from and engineer who’s rifle is 3/4 too the long bow takes about twice as long to fire an attack off imo.
I think the buff range is kinda short on them. In order to keep them out of aoe you have to place them far enough back that you don’t buff anyone. And the follow you trait is just asking for them to be killed.
Longbow needs to do more damage if they want to keep the slow as molasses speed and distance damage scaling the way it is now. Sure barrage is nice but most players just laugh at it’s damage and run around it anyway. I really want to like it but it just doesn’t perform.
