This is pretty disappointing. I always thought this was one of the Engis must have skills
And this is the reason it got nerfed, I’m not saying they nerfed it the correct way, but anything that i a “Must have skill”, needs to be toned down!
Me and Asteira Rose (My Co host on Engenious) will do a live podcast, 2morrow (Wensday the 26th of June), at 19:00 GMT here on SOAC Twitch Channel here:
http://www.twitch.tv/soacgaming
Where we will discuss the new changes in this patch, and ofc. would like to invite as many as the engineer’s to join in on, leaving/asking stuff in the chat channel for the podcast!
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But so far, I will just say this: Me and the new Rocket Boots are gonna have a loooooot of awesome saxy time!
<3
And overall I’m quite positive about this patch!
They get one single Grandmaster Trait, in their Power Trait Line, that do 4 seconds of burning and have a cooldown on 10 seconds, and they need to crit! They ain’t even close to the amount of burning we have! I’m sitll not worried
@Lord Reks you will be happy to learn that this Podcast will indeed be about PvE, and so will the next one!
The upcoming Episode will be about how it is to level as an Engineer, and which ways is effective to level, and why we think you should pla the Engineer, we wil follow that up with a Podcast about Level 80 PvE dungeon builds next week!
Also, I would like to inform that on wensday the 26th Asteria Rose and Me will be holding a Live Podcast, discussing the probaly very big patch (if the leaked notes hold true)! It will be 19:00 GMT you can find us Live Streaming!
http://www.twitch.tv/soacgaming
Wooohooo Engineers!
Was a lot of fun to take part of hehe!
And the Engineer wons 2/0 vs mesmers, 2/0 vs Rangers and bested the elementalists in the final 3/0! Victory to Engineers yay!
Engineers just beated the mesmers 2/0 in the first round of the tournament! YAY!
That’s pretty much the same as my Condition Grenadier setup when running it with Net Turret, which I do in all duels beside mesmers! :P It’s also a lot of fun to troll people with!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gFIvPtF50M
I do tho, prefer a second pistol, medkit and use my runes for more damage output then chilled, but I can see the Chilled working well with that kind of build!
But the core setup is really good, it’s an amazing combo of utility skills ect, very good control! I would tho, pick Hair Trigger over Precise Sights, better damage output that way
@Grackelflint: Awesome that you had fun with it in PvE! Haven’t had much time to test it out in PvE, but I have felt like it would be a decent and at least very fun build to use there!
@Becks I have fixed the link now, it’s good old Speedy Kits that’s the first Trait!
To the second question, what Yamsandjams hold true, but there is actually another 2 reasons.
The other is, for a long time, and I think it still holds true, will a condition if it last for say 2,75 second, still give the last thick, you saw a lot of the HGH Engineer use this tactic with the old Incendary Powder, running 40% duraiton, and still getting the third thick! so the new Incendary Powdet will with 90% duration as an example also give me 8 thick’s, and not 7, You are right that Blowtorch and Rocket kick won’t get it’s max duration, but it will still be 9 second from Rocket Kick and 11 seconds from Blowtorch, which is more then enough, because I got 3 different Burning applying, so before the duration will run out, I can just apply the next, and the Cooldowns being 10, 12 and 16, means I will all ways have burning up, unless they cleanse it, which means the Duration wouldn’t have helpt either
The second reason is, for the rest of my conditions in that build, the durations is absurd long, even with only 90% duration! Sharpnel Grenades will give 23 thicks, I will have a very easy permanet uptime of posison, the Poison Volley will be able to do it for it self, but with posion grenade I see up to 1-2 min posion duration when I hit Ace! Any more duration just seems like an over kill anyway, because just tossing Sharpnel Grenade once, will deal 7k – 8k (depending on stacks), over the next 23 seconds if they don’t use a removal! =) So either they remove, or they die, 1-2 seconds from or to ain’t a big deal ^^
I won’t use Auto attack from pistol much, and all the other conditions in the build, Confusion, Blind, Chilled, Crippled and Vulnerbillity, won’t the extra 10% duration make much of a difference!
Also, only going with 90% duration means I can go with Runes of the undead, which in this build gives me 1267 condition power, instead of 995 which I have if I run with more condition duration runes:! So the damage output is a lot better when you build it that way!
@Yamsand, Thanks for taking time to help answear questions!
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@Vinceftw – Tool kit is really an amazing kit, and I actually miss it a lot in this build, I use tool kit for like 80% of my builds! But Elixir Gun bring a lot more use for the healing power stat in the gear setup, and elixir gun scales amazing with more friendly players, Acid Bomb is an amazing skill in combo with Healing turret :P But I do actually swap in Tool Kit every now and then, instead of rocket Boots hehe :P
@Stice: I’m still testing if I like the Flamethrower or not in the build, the 3, 4 and 5th skill are all awesome, and the tool belt skill is decent, but I have no need for skill 1 or 2, unless I’m in a larger fight!! That said, a Cone Knockback is really good vs many types of enemies, and only get’s better when vs more enemies, a 10 sec Fire Field is amazing when doing group play for might stacking, and a AoE blind is all ways handy! =) But I do use it more as an Utility Kit, then I use it as a damage kit, so some fights it’s out more then this, but most of the time it is only used ofr utility!
@Yamsandjams: Hehe it happens! Not a rune that see much play either, but been wanting to try it out for a long time!
But glad to hear you had fun testing it in sPvP, I think it works quite decent for me in there! If you don’t like Rocket Boots, then swap it out for whatever you like, the spot is open! I just love Rocket Kicks AoE melee Burning (goes trough all those annoying reflections), and that it can get me out of Immobilse from Ranger Elite ect.
I do Recommend Elixir R, Tool Kit, a Turret, or even toss Mine (I swap around with these all the time, depending on my mood and what I’m doing) and all works quite good!
Go with a Shield when in a group or doing zerg vs Zerg, I do that as well! I just prefer my off hand pistol when solo roaming!
A couple days ahead of you.
I have 2000 Koi Cakes sitting in my bank.
…I might have gone overboard.
Hehe i pretty much did this as well when I saw hwo cheap they was haha
@Woeye: Cheers you have fun with the Engineer again! It can be a tough road to 80, but it’s worth it! it’s a blast to play at max level!
@Terrahero: Confusion Bomb build is still super fun to play, and I still use it Yes, it can’t instant kill people in 2-3 seconds as I could before, but noobs will stille die, now just in 5-6 seconds, and it have gotten stronger vs good players, since now they actually dare to take a little damage every now and then!
Also, it is true the builds ain’t exactly the same anymore, but in general they all work somewhat the same and are quite balanced and fun to play in WvW, I use them all every now and then Nerfs do afterall, not come only to us, and changes are constant made to others Proffessions, Thief as an example have lost a lot of their inital burst, so the example with Elixir S, now just means I don’t need it for it!
But yes, you are correct that changes have happened, but the builds do still perform close to what you see in the videos, beside Confusion Bomb build, which deals 50% less confusion damage, but is still quite playable (use it in some of the fights in this video after the nerf: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8z9NI1NHCk)
1. I run 2x Giver’s Pistol with Corruption actually, which I use to get 25 stacks first xD Then I swap to Leeching and Smoldering Pistols!! Actually didn’think much about it, but you are right in the video I am actually stacking Corrpution! Had them equipped because I thought I just should kill the NPC’s on the Isle, and thne got jumped :P When I swap to Leeching I do get a lot more tanky, because every 10th second I steal 975 Life from an enemy (pure damage, ignoring any sort of armor, which means I deal a pure 975 damage blow to the enemy as well)
2. I get 15% burning duration from forge runes, and 10% from smoldering, putting my burning on 95%, which means that Incendary Powder, Rocket Kick, and Blow Torch all get one more thick out of their duration! So that’s why I’m testinng that out atm, because burning is my main damage source in the build! Also, works wonders in PvE, since NPC’s don’t cleanse!! The rest of my conditions, beside posison, are just cover conditions for the burning mosto f the time.
3. Sigil of Smoldering is see above ^, but if you don’t like it, you can roll with Precision or Force as well! (or corrpution if you don’t do as me :P)
I don’t really feel like the low HP is such a big issue, mostly because I have so much protection uptime and a ton of healing! also the condition removal is acutally quite decent in the build, so I rather want Toughness over HP (But you can swap in some Shaman Armor for more HP if you feel it’s needed, Vit/ Condi/ Healing/!
hehe yeah I need a giant bank! With this new build I now have 8 full Exoitc Sets, and 11 Pistols I think? 3 Shields and 5 Rifles, for not talking about a ton of Jewels! :P
@Maskaganda: I for sure need trainning with the Weapon Kits, it’s something very different from my usual playground haha In a 1vs1 it’s a lot easier to time the Combo Fields and Combo Finishers, but when I’m vs several enemies at once, it get’s really really hard! But so far I’m in total love with My Water Fields from Healing Turret (and it’s Tool Belt) + Acid Bomb! But it can for sure be hard to time most of the time!
So for now I will focus on getting done with the last Exam hehe, and train the build when I can, because I really think it got some neat potenial! =p
@Vinceftw – First, thanks for the kind words, so far Gandara is an amazing server, very friendly, so highly recommend it!
I’m testing the Flamethrower as utility in this build, I’m not 100% sold on it myself yet, but the blowback is really awesome, napalm wall can be very good vs melee people as well, and the 5th skill let’s me do some neat safe Stomps on 5 out of 8 proffesions! But maybe a bomb kit will be more usefull? But still in testing! Never really played Flamethrower, nor Elixir Gun much, so I need to train with them, I’m kind bad haha
@Grackleflint! Shareing is careing!
I would recommend Aprothecary, or Celestial! I’m personal saving up laurels for a Celestial set, because I really really would like to test out how well that works! The build as it is now, should probaly benifit quite well from all stats, at least in my heads theory! =)
Hey there everyone! A long a waited update is now ready!!
I have been very very busy with: IRL, having Exam period and other IRL stuff, making podcasts for Sitting on a Couch (Go check Engenious and the other podcasts out, it’s awesome! http://sittingonacouch.com/category/gaming/)! Heck I even gotten myself a little kitten, now eating up time as well!
But anyway while I haven’t been busy with other stuff, I have found a little time, working on a new build, using the new Settler Jewels and now cheaper Apothecary armor! Which, I now have a little teaser off! Much more gameplay will hopefully get into videos in time!
I have also joined Judge Legends (JDGE), on Gandara, so there should be chances for group play videos some time in the futher as well!! Anyway, the build teaser video is up and running here!
The Condition Apothecary – Build Teaser
Build info here:
http://tinyurl.com/muvgj55
Obvious Setteler Jewels, but these haven’t been added yet to the website!
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If you want a solo roaming build for an Engineer, then you should go with Condition damage builds They are the best pick for that kind of gameplay, and you should in praticular be able to melt any Bunker Guardien with ease in a good condition damage build!
You can check out my videos and follow the comment links for Roaming builds, there is a few power builds, but most are condition builds. But condition > Power at the current time in WvW
I have tested my build in sPvP and WvW so far, still testing tho, but it have worked quite well in both places WvW it’s decent for soloing and great for when running with a group!
It should work just fine in PvE as well tbh, it brings a ton of AoE Healing afterall, and it still deals decent condition damage, and the utility setup can be easy altered for something suitable for each encounter
But still testing so far !
I’m working on such a build at the given time, gonna make a WvW roaming video with it when I get it up and running!!
looks like this so far:
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.1|a.1m.h1m.a.1m.hf|0.0.0.0.0.0|1f.7p.1f.7p.1f.7p.1f.7p.1f.7p.1f.7p|211.0.211.0.311.0.211.0.311.0.1b.0|a5.k68.a1.k16.a6|30.d|2c.2v.2w.2m.30|e
They haven’t updated with the Settler’s Jewels, but they obvious go into the jewels slots
Go for Rabid! Rabid is allways a good solid pick!
Yay! Hope everyone wil enjoy it! was a lot of fun to talk with Ostrich Eggs and get some insight in how the Engineer is in the current sPvP meta! for sure not the last time we are going to talk with him! !
I can all ready now spoil next weeks guest will be no other then Maskaganda the man himself! Joining us for getting a overview on just how awesome the roaming WvW engineer is!
As all ways, feel free to PM/Email/Whisper in game any questions you migt have!!
Also, we are looking for PvE Engineer’s Intresed in joining us for a talk about the PvE aspect of the Engineer! So if you know one or are intrested yourself in joining, PM me and we will have a look at it!
@Tigirius I keep seeing you posting about Adventure and Soldier classes, what is it you mean with with?? Is it just a smart way to say medium armor and heavy armor or have I missed something important? :P
Beisde that, on topic:
HGH Grenades are still great, but other condition damage based builds are now viable as well in both sPvP, and have been so in WvW for a long time as well! You will see Teldo and Ostrich Eggs as well actually, both run none HGH builds in the current sPvP meta.
In WvW, you don’t need HGH at all to make effektive condition builds, I personal run several different without, and you can check out my videos for more info about it following my signature, you can also spot Koroshi running some intrestring condition damage builds!
Overall tho, Condition does beat power at the current PvP meta most of the time! The way we can stack conditions and how they work, simply end up better then power damage, unless you run in larger groups, where power is better, duo to the way conditions stack! That said, HGH power builds and Stastic Discharge builds are all decent builds for some power fun!
In PvE I have personal found that both things works, and many builds can be used, grenades and bombs outshine the rest somewhat (at least in my expeirnce to FOTM level 16 and dungeons exp mode), but i have fun with both condition and power builds, and also support healing builds (Healing Turret <3)
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Glad to hear Bas!
People can all ready now, look forward to the next Podcast, where Ostirch Egg’s are guesting us, to talk a bit about Engineer’s in tPvP, his personal experince with what works and much much more!!
If people have anyone they would like to suggest/hear as a guest on our Podcast, or maybe a specific subject you would like covered, feel free to PM me or reply to this topic about it! We are open for suggestions about what you people would like to hear!
Unfortunately, I don’t—but I’ll work on that. Also, it’s Grackleflint with a “G”.
I also want to thank Amadeus and Asteria Rose for being so welcoming and easy to talk with. You both made being on the podcast a lot of fun.
Same goes for you! It was a lot of fun and very easy to talk with you!!
Hope everyone that listen to it will enjoy it as much as I did shooting it! =)
I would just remove the global cooldown and give each of the effects individual cooldowns
This would pretty much fix it yeah! Maybe a few of the ability’s should have the duration increased a bit, but that would for sure be the right start!
he Winner get the advantage is a horrible balance concept in any sort of game in my opinion, either the looser is the one that gets an advantage, or, which I prefer, no one gets an advantage!
It’s really cool that they make such an event and everything, but before they try push it and turn it into something really big with like price pools and stuff (not sure if that is what they want, but still), they really need to take a loong look at their rules, because, at least for my viewing pleasure, I get seriously annoyed by that kind of unbalancing rules!
The Warrior duels was a classic Engineer vs Warrior hehe :P That’s how it all ways end for them poor warriors =P
Just a little hint: if u use magnet and swap out of the kit, magnet will still go on and u can do other skills in this time. This may hide your purposes with magnet maybe. Important: don’t swap via weapon switch key but via utility key.
I often use this trick with Big Bomb and Jump shot (yes i love rifle) for an evil combo.
I’m confused by this, what do you mean exactly? :o
You are correct that you can swap away from Tool Kit while you still will be channeling Magnet, and you can as well click the next ability that you want to queue, but you can’t actually use other skills, like in them actually activating when you press them and still be channeling Magnet?
Intrestring to watch Koroshi, but there is some thing I would like to get explained:
First, why was he allowed to spam his elite skile to hearts content, and you only was allowed to use it once? that’s hardly fair? <.<
Second, why did you pick Elixir R in a 1vs1 situation vs a Thief? Don’t get me wrong on this one, Elixir R, Toss in special, is an amazing tool, in speical when doing teamplay! But in a 1vs1 situation like a duel, there is, at least in my humble openion, so far better options you could have went with that would give you more control over the fight, here I’m thinking:
Net Turret for CC reasons, it helps a ton vs those fast moving S/D Thief’s, and one stun can be all you need to kill them.
ELixir Gun: I have seen you use it, and your good at it :P It’s more healing power + another blast finisher and gap Closer, it really good for a 1vs1 situation where the only stun he got is his Elite, and S/D simply don’t burst as much as the god old D/P does, so you can take a little beating just fine :P
Heck, I personal would have run with Rocket Boot for the Rocket Kick, the extra burning would have helpt a lot on the situation, and i might actually agree on the off hand pistol probaly would have been better ofr this encounter, because it was mostly a race for damage that duel!
a last option that actually can destory that kind of Thief as well when used correctly, and also neating you another Blast Finisher, is actually Throw Mine, the Knock back gives you the ability to take control over a little area makes, hich makes it quite an amazing tool, and it will rip of some of the boons he try get/steal as a bonus! =)
So yeah, right, why did you end up picking Elixir R? I’m Curious about that one!
And yes, he was indeed using 6x Rune of Lyssa :P
Also, I can see you are a little bit to Trigger Happy with your Prybar after Magnet, using the skill even when you miss with the magnet, because you are to used to click it right after! I tend to do that a lot as well if I don’t focus a lot on it! You gotta save dat Prybar! It’s to improtant to miss!
@Panhuramix
You can make it instant pretty much all ways make it instant, by pressing your Healing Turret skill, followed by spamming the button, which will make the overcharge happen as soon as you plant the turret.
If you fail to do that, then there will be a 3 second delay, until the next “overcharge will now be activated” animation will happen, it does that on a regular 3 second basic, when it gives it’s AoE regen if I’m not wrong!
I think you did a good job!^^
You was very easy to understand, loud and clear when talking.
You did maybe overexplain it a bit, but then again, I have played the Engineer for so long now hat this kind of gudie ain’t really designed for what kind of Information I need
A new player to the game or the Engineer class will for sure get some good tips from using 4 min listning to that! I also enjoyed you did talk abit about the pro’s and con’s with Blasting or picking it up! So all in all good work!
I spend most of my time doing one of these:
1. Solo roaming
2. Solo Defending supply camps (can defend it from up to 4-6 enemies at the same time with LOS and kiting abusing)
3. Havoc Squad with friends.
I do also know that we are quite good at:
Tower Defending
Healing support, we got a 3 second Waterfield now with the new Healing Turret + easy acces to a lot of blast finishers in a build that can still work, take Shield, Elixir Gun and Bomb kit, and then you got 4x Blast Finishers when you pop the Healing Turret as well
also, HGH Grenades are awesome for defending Towers, amazing AOE damage, the mobile AC :P
You got the part about Condition Engineer’s at the given time being the strongest for WvW roaming/havocing right!
Even better, we have a ton of different builds that can be used for WvW, you can check out some of Maskaganda’s videos here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n-xElqC2Ak
That’s a HGH P/P with Tool Kit build, he puts links into the description section.
Sir Koroshi – Show of how to use 3 kit’s for condition damage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKxM83PqfMQ&list=UUf_enole3kxYRZeZ3bMHGbw&index=7
And there is many more, you can also take a pick on any of my builds
“The Confusion Bomb” 100% condition duration setup:
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|a.1m.h2.a.1m.h19|0.0.0.0.0.0|1b.7i.1b.7i.1h.7v.1b.7v.1b.7v.1b.7v|2w.0.2w.0.3w.0.2w.0.1h.62.1b.62|k53.k64.0.a1.k68|30.d|2d.2e.2x.2j.0|e
“The Confusion Bomb” – Full Conidition damage Setup:
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|a.1b.h2.a.1h.h19|0.0.0.0.0.0|1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719|2w.0.2w.0.3w.0.2w.0.1h.62.1b.62|k53.k64.0.a1.k68|30.d|2d.2e.2x.2j.0|e
“The Condition Grenadier build”
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|a.1m.h2.a.1m.h19|0.0.0.0.0.0|1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719|2w.0.2w.0.3w.0.2w.0.1h.62.1b.62|u58b.a6.0.a1.k08|30.d|2d.2f.2x.2m.0|e
“The Napalm Specialist” (Toolkit can be swapped for FlameThrower with some minor adjustments)
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|a.1m.hf.a.1m.h19|0.0.0.0.0.0|1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719|2w.0.2w.0.3w.0.2w.0.1h.62.1b.62|a5.u647.0.a1.k68|30.d|2d.2m.2x.2j.0|e
“The Explosive Alchemist”
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|4.1g.h1h|0.0.0.0.0.0|1g.71i.1g.71i.1g.71i.1g.71i.1g.71g.1g.71g|21j.0.1n.64.1n.64.1n.64.1n.64.1i.64|u5ab.a6.0.u2ab.0|39.7|2b.2g.2j.2f.30|e
“The Explosive Alchemist – Condition”
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|a.1m.h1h.a.1m.h2|0.0.0.0.0.0|1b.71h.1b.71h.1b.7i.1b.7i.1b.71g.1b.71g|2w.0.3w.0.2w.0.2w.0.1h.62.1b.62|u5ab.a6.0.u2ab.0|30.d|2b.2g.2j.2f.30|e
“The Explosive Toolkit”
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/engineer/?2.0|4.1g.h14|0.0.0.0.0.0|1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7.1g.a7|1g.67.21j.0.1n.64.1n.64.1n.64.1i.61|u57b.a6.0.a1.k
Which I use for WvW roaming, some of them is power builds, but they do still work well for roaming, both solo and with a team, and you can find vidoe’s of the gameplay on my channel here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/MrAmadeuson
Hehe the only thing you need to do for winning the love of Bas is waving some Turrets infront of his nose! But I do agree, it could be quite the intrestring conversasion, both to be part of, but also to listen to! A talk about Turrets in tPvP and how to make them work, if possible, in WvW and PvE!
I will shoot you a PM Crackleflint with more info!
@Crackleflint Thanks for the great input and feedback on the Turret’s!
Neither I or Asteria Rose is doing much sPvP (I have just begun to do more of it now tho, to get that experince in as well), so we couldn’t give so much feedback on sPvP (and Bas is a necro player, haven’t played Engineer that much :P). But it was exactly meant at sPvP that I do think the Turrets have potenial ^^
personal I had a lot of fun today running a net and rocket Turret, for complete shut down on everyone that attacked my node alone (But mesmers, they are a hard counter as you said). But the looong Cooldowns make you very inmobile, and I actually didn’t feel I killed people better/faster/easier in some of my Kit builds.
But right, I can keep rambling as well, my point was, I will try, in speical Gadgets and Turrets, open dialog with futhers guests, to hear their point of view, and trough those dialogs hopefully learn new things, but also create information that Anet can use, in speical when we start getting some people like Ostrichegg in ect. to talk about the Curretn tPvP!
@ Mentalpulse I’m glad my few missups with words turned out to be to listen to, instead of annoying Also! Thanks for the great feedback, we will of cuase work on get the show steam lined and get all information intop to notch standard!
@DrWhom! Thanks for the kinds words, and you are spot on with the Elixir S nerf, it is for sure a tpyical Anet “nerf”, that they wanted to prevent elementalists from starting to channeling Eather Renewal and then going Mist form! Which we now suffer from as welL! Here hoping they will look a bit more into that issue!
@Spear Glad you liked it! Will make sure you get many more podcasts to look forward to! this is only the start!
@Tigirius: We have only just gotten the youtube channels up and running, and we will slowly add more content to it, when we get it that is! I will personal get more and more WvW stuff linked from my own youtube channel, but if you know anyone with good Engineer videos, send a video with there youtube channel and we will see to get it linked! It’s going to be meant as a data base for Video’s about Engineers (The other Professions got their own as well)
But I’m personal not that much into PvE, so ain’t doing video of that, nor do I know that many PvE Engineer’s (I only do Exp Dungeons and FOTM 10-16 for the daily every now and then). Which Means I’m actually looking for a Engineer with a lot of knowledge about the PvE sides of playing an Engineer, to come guest the podcast and have a conversation about that topic! If any feels that’s them, or know someone that might be spot on, be free to PM or Email me!
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I know Maskaganda plans to join as well! I will get him to sign up as soon as his here!
The healing turret won’t heal the other Turrets, sadly! That’s actually a quite cool idea tho, they should make it like that to be honest! hmmm, that would give a better reason to leave the Turrets out, which appear to be what the Devs want! Good thinking Bas!
I think it was Bas talking about how he liked to stack them in an area in PvE with his healing Turret, and then he could whack heal them all with the tool Kit auto attack when they lost health! In that way making them last for longer in theory that is ^^
Yay! The very first podcast is now live!!!!!!
Hope everyone will have as much fun and enjoyment with listning to the podcast as we had making the first podcast!
Also, the buzzing sound on my mic drives me nuts personal, so I will have it replaced before the next podcast! :P
Looking forward to get the next Podcast going! Who the first guest will be is still in the works tho!
Also: Asteria Rose Voice is just perfect for this!
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It is actually quite the usefull weapon! first off, it’s designed the same way as the pisol, with long range attacks and close range attacks, both 1(2)3 on pistol are for ranged!
(2. It can be used at longe range, but it will miss a lot of the attacks from long range)
Anyway, it follow the idea that Engineer’s a medium range Proffession, one that goes in and out of short range all the time, which I personal, like a lot! The Rifle is the weapon of choice for pretty much any Power build you can come up, see HGH power builds or Stastic Discharge builds as an example on that! Also it’s an amazing CC weapon, and I personal prefer that when I bunker for the fun of it in sPvP, for the immobilse and knockback!
I would have to agree with you, on Rocket Boots being a two edged blade yeah! Often, using as you say, will mean it bugs and you don’t fly very far a way, and just doom you, and other times the self stun will last longer then some of the stuns you get hit by! =//
The core concept of the Rocket Boots is still solid tho, all it needed was a bugfix so you all ways fly backward, and that there is no self CC, that would be great! Also, Rocket Kick (the toolbelt skill), is amazing! so tha helps it up! =)
Yeah I totally get that feeling Lupanic! After dueling so many times vs Osicat, I can’t even count how many times I have been captured in that Shatter combo, it’s super dangerous for sure!
And I even got a toolkit Block, Rocket Boots (which actually are quite amazing vs shatter mesmers) and perma Vigor! But trait the leap got like 6 seconds cooldown, and Blurred Frenzy is 8 I think? so It’s a tough nail to avoid all the time =/ But I try keep a bit of distance when fighting them, because that will leave you with more reaction time to dodge, ofc, that’s easier said then done when you try defend a point!
Also, if you manage to dodge the Leap combo, and he start doing blurred Frenzy, that will leave him stading still, so right when Blurred Frenzy is over is a good time to counter attack! =)
Yeah you sadly got that Correct, there ain’t mant weakness on a good Shatter Mesmer!
You can use Elixir S, right after the Immobilse to avoid the damage tho, but it really is a game of dodging at the right time. You can actually, blind the Memser, if you are fast enough! When you see the Clone come running, if you blind him, he will still swap place with it, but the attack won’t immobilse you, and you do have tow blind in the HGH nade build, but it’s still a tough one! =/
In special in a tPvP teamfight where the action goes high, or WvW team clash, a Shatter Mesmer that have seen himself mad at you, can be a really dangerous foe!
A shield in off hand can help on the sitution if his hunting you the entire match, if you time the block perfect, which means right before the swap (else it won’t work, Blurred Frenzy will cancel the stun)
I think the best odds for winning such a situation as a HGH Engineer is gaining distance while lobbing nades behind you, many of them lack real condition removal, so random tossing of grenades can score some easy damage hehe!
@Lupanic I know I ain’t using a HGH build in this video, but it is worth taking a look at the for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6indetq-E_Q
It’s the general way the Shatter Memser works, and which moves you can use to beat them. One of the key things when fighting them is to dodge the leap + Immobilse followed by shatter/flurred Frenzy combo!
I use the same tactics when I use my own HGH Nade builds against them as well!
Bahaha yeah, I totally love that Rocket Kick Animation!
It’s soo amazing on an Asura!!! But also, the AoE Burning that apply as a “melee” hit, is really nice, in special vs people that use reflection!
Actually begun to love the Rocket Boots more and more as well the self CC is very annoying, and I do think it should be removed, but beside that, it’s an amazing tool, because often it’s Immobilze’s that kill me, the biggest being the Ranger Root Elite, which Rocket Boots fix, and it have actually saved me a lot of times now!
Here goes another WvW roaming video! This is just some of the better videos I have gotten when I have some time for roaming around solo in WvW to relax, it’s nothing serious, but it’s some decent fight’s that’s very viewer friendly (at least I find it so!)
You can find the Video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8z9NI1NHCk
I use Confusion Bomb Build & Condition Grenadier Build in the video!
I have also begun on the Podcasting work now! Bas have plans on uploading the first Podcast for the SOAC (Sitting on a Couch) team! It’s going to be named Engenious and my Co – Host is Asteria Rose, whom you all can look forward to hear from as well!
The first Podcast will just be a casual talk where Bas interview Asteria Rose and me so you all can get to know us better! It’s the only one where Bas will be on, from now on it’s up o the two of us Hosts, and we will be trying to find some intrestring Engineer’s to get in and talk about the proffession with us!