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The age of the engineer?!?

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@Spiuk: Just asumeing your right, and that grenades indeed are the hardest skill to land in the game (which I would only agree with if at range, at melee even bombs is harder to land, then the nades, because of it’s explosion delay)!

But we say they are the hardest which is quite fair, then a 4 kit builds running let’s say: Medkit, Toolkit, Bombkit and Nade kit, still a way harder build to play then the HGH nade build, which was my point! Kit’s will allways be harder to use then the ELixirs :P
Even then I would still claim that a 4 kit build even without a build in Nade kit is harder to manage prober, then it is to play a HGH nade build (Done both a power and condition variant of it)! Simply because you need to swap in and out of different ranges, remeber CD and be fast enough on your fingers to time and use every kit to it’s maximum! Which ain’t a “skill shot”, but it’s still “skill based” to play like that

Does that mean I think HGH Grenade build is easy to play? No not at all, it’s a super hard build to master, and requrie a ton of skill :P It’s simply not THE hardest

[Guide] Overpowered PvP Phantasm Build

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@Pyro
uhh now it’s getting intrestring! But you need to keep in mind, while reflection is super annoying, I only have 3 (4 if you count my Throw Wrench Skill) projectile skills in my build (and one of them is my sucky auto attack I try to avoid using), my Blowtorch is a cone attack, my Tool kit is pure melee Evil and my bomb Kit is AoE melee! and focus reflection compared to the healing skill with reflection and the shatter reflection (if traited) is quite obivous, and can be countered by superior mobility and placement (which I do have with my perma Swiftness)

Also I run my Rocket Boots for the 300 range “Melee” Rocket Kick that gives burning! so reflects won’t help there, so for focus to work you would need to change around in the traits, and give up a fair deal of damage from the Pistol (since the Phatasm from focus very rare will be able to deal the same amount of damage)

I do think that the Mantra Heal might work quite well yeah, but you will loose out on healing power, which can turn out to be a bigger hindrance then a edge if you can’t seal the deal fast!!
The Condition removal Mantra on the other hand is awesome, and would for sure be a great addition to the build, and would make your condition removal a lot better right there!

The -40% condition duration food is a pain indeed, but that will mean you loose out on damage food, and as I’m running a 100% duration build, I will still have 60% duraiton on my skills, which will be fine take into account that with your added condition removal they probaly will be gone there anyway!! (Also, does that food effect work on your phantasms as well? I have no idea about it, and could be quite intrestring to know)!

I really mean no offence, I just like to see where the disucssion will take the build! The stuff you add will indeed make it better suited against a Engineer Burst condition build, but you do so at the price of your damage, and in a prolonged fight I still believe the Engineer will win! So for me it would be a matter of playing defensive until I have soaked out your removal, and keep your phatams down with AoE conditions!

So yeah, in WvW I still think I could seal the deal with Hit and run tactics and slowy taking you down! In sPvP I’m not so sure tho

Getting late here in EU, so will have to take a look at your reply 2morrow! Still, it appear like a solid build, that can be easy customised to take on different types of enemies = For sure a solid duel build in my eyes

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@ Pyroatheist, While I don’t disagree that you do have a lot of avoidance, it’s still less then the Mistcat build (which I still can manage to get trough and hit, and it got reflection as well)! Phatasms retaltion won’t hurt me, since I’m killing them off with conditions, and your opening combo is countered by one Stastic Shot boucing them 2x = 4 confusion stacks and double blind, with chance to give bleeding and burning aswell, that will finish them off most of the time (In WvW), If I really wanna close the deal I pop a blow torch and I won’t have to think about them the next 14-16 seconds? ^^

And yeah, you can blink away from my Magnet (but that means you run with less condition removal in utlity), but in between my easy acces to cripple and perma swiftness, I won’t have trouble catching up to you, nor kiting the Swordsman/Clones!! And while I’m sure I’m in for hell of a fight when you run such a build, I still see the Condition Engineer is the one with the best odds if you run the exact build as you showcase, because you do have avoidance, but I got several low CD condition skills, so I will end up hitting with some of them (Ask Osicat :P)!

With all that said, it still looks like an amazing build, and I really would love to duel you! But you do play on the NA servers right? Which means, at least to my knowledge, I can’t duel you in sPvP (where your builds get’s even more scary :O)! But I won’t call it unbeatable, because it does have a weakness for conditions!

Just to tip the enemy (stupid I know), I would have an extra weapon with Superior sigil of generosity at hand for when you duel Condition builds, been a great help for Osicat, and a big pain in the kitten for me, because when I get to hit you in between all the avoidance, nothing is more annoying then have it right back

Mesmerized: Questions Answered

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I’m only playing my Mesmer alt a little, but I for sure enjoy listning you guys doing the podcast! And there is a lot of good information for me for when I face off against Mesmers aswells, so thanks for helping the enemy! So yeah, it’s a really awesome Podcast, keep up the great work! You both do a great jop at answearing the questions and giving good information!

Double Big Thump Ups from here!

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oh that part wasn’t meant at you sorry! Was just why I posted in the topic :P Cause OP claim it is! ^^

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Hehe we can indeed forum fight all day hehe I just wanted to post my point of view on such a build, because I simply don’t see it as unkillable in WvW (also a single auto attack crit that proc’s my 4sec burning will finish a phantasm off, for not talking about the wonder Stastic Shot and it’s bounce do on them!) hehe

So yeah for sure one of the good 1vs1 duel builds, but unbeatable? no :P

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@Knight I’m sadly on the EU server’s, and they both play on NA server!

@Wookie, You would have to give up three of the following things: Blink, Stealth or Clone life (I assume it would be Blink and stealth), and while I do agree that I will be put on pressure at the start, I still sit in with 2x low CD easy to land burning Skills, with acces to a thid and a chance to get it on crits, I got 2 different skills to get 5 stacks of confusion on you with, which in WvW means total lockdown unless you got a removal for 10 seconds (one being on a 12 sec CD, the other 18)! Still not counting all the other crap I got! :P The point is, I I will be put on pressure, put if I just paly defensive at the start and don’t double stack my CD’s, then the match will turn easy for me when your two removal is gone! At least in WvW, sPvP have showed to be quite harder for me vs that kind of builds :P

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All I need to do is not apply al my condition in a burst, and watch when you send back and just walk away when you hang out in a Null Field, Osicat tried that, and while it will complicate the fight, and help a lot out on the condition removal, it won’t be an automatic win!

Edit: I talk from a WvW perspective btw :P In sPvP Phantasm builds get’s a lot stronger in my little Experince there, mostly because I do less damage then WvW, and they appear to still have the same amount of life!

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Your build have a major weakness vs Conditions, you got one condition removal on a 20 second cooldown (removing one single conditions)! If I met your build on my Condition build on my Engineer I would melt you away! Having acces to 10 seconds duration on 5 stacks of confusion, able to stack up to 30 seconds of burning and high uptimes of several different other conditions to soak up that single removal I can’t see you lasting long with less active defence skills then the Mistcat build (which I can manage to get past!)! I’m sure it’s an awesome 1vs1 duel build, and that you can kill most melee builds quite easy, but vs a good Condition Engineer or Necromancer, I can’t see your build as “unbeatable”! ^^

Mask's 10th wvw vid

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When your bleeding begin to hit for 140+ and your burning for 800+ I feel bad for anything that’s hitting you! It’s some serious brutal daamge that get’s thrown at them!

It was some really awesome fights, awesome to watch! I loved the Two BB D/D elementalists that loved to press buttons when they had Confusion was gloruious! Thumps up from here! Would watch again!

The age of the engineer?!?

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they realise the skill cap is higher than spamming 222222

Skill cap of facerolling HGH condi gren is extremely low. I blame exactly it for massive engi spawn.

LOL. I’ve heard this so much recently. I am not kidding when I say that HgH has the highest skill floor and skill cap in the game ATM. NOBODY lands all grenades. I have 4k games on my engi, at least 3k with grenades. I still miss a lot of grenades. It’s called a skillshot for a reason friend.

And as far as the topic itself goes, I think it’s because of the steady buffs and a bunch of people (mainly me) SCREAMING that HGH is the best build in the entire kittenin’ game in tourneys. People are just now starting to believe it and actually play my permutation of the build.

It’s been slow, but ever since the smoke bomb nerf a wide variety of builds became viable because of buffs. Most important of which is the addition of sigils on kits.

I just pray we have another option when the nerfs come down.

You should try run a 4 kit build then, in special a 4 kit build with a grenade kit in! ;D HGH Nade kit ain’t the hardest build to play for an Engineer, but it for sure ain’t easymode at all, anything useing a nade kit require quite the skill level, that’s for kitten sure!

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Hehe thanks to all of you! I’m glad you all like the guides! and I’m slowly looking into what the next gudie is gonna be, but probaly D/D elementalist! Think I found the player for it! Sadly it’s gonna be a few days before I can get it up and going, cause I got a Exams coming up, so for some silly reason I need to focus on IRL stuff hehe

Rifle/bombs

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From a pure damage scale the Warrior forums calculated some time ago that you overall will deal more damage with the Ruby Orb (also with your gear setup and amount of Fury you should be perma critting xD)

Yeah it affect the Auto Attack as well! It’s just harder to see it, because the animation don’t appear “Bigger”

Rifle/bombs

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Hehe you can never follow links on the forums, it allways bugs, you need to copy the link and put it into your browser!

Well I do agree Bombs rock, but that’s why I would swap Incendiary Powder out with Forcefull Explosion, will really make it a lot easier for you to hit with them :P On the other hand I think Stastic Discharge have targeting issues when using Big Old’ Bomb? Haven’t tested it for some time, but It used to at least

Also you can start crying, Ruby Orbs is better !

edit: Ogre gives you:
165 Power, 3% Crit damage and 4% damage
Ruby Orb gives you:
120 Power, 12% Crit Damage and 84 Precision!

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Do I have to go grenades and HGH?

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Well that’s the exact same trait setup as my Standard solo roaming confusion bomb build! It’s an awesome build, and it works more then fine in WvW

You can watch me roaming with it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoReMSCI0js

It’s also a great duel build, for 1vs1, 2vs2 ect, and you can tweak it around a lot, like swapping Elixir S for a Net Turret, Throw mine or even Rocket Boots! You do not have to go HGH nades to do WvW and have succes, running that build I pretty much win any 1vs1 I run into, and most 1vs2 I got a fair chance at winning as well, for not saying it’s a great build for picking of players that get to far away from the zerg! So yeah it works great!

Going the mixed Stat way with power/Crit damage / condition damage is on the other hand something I haven’t tested out much, I focus Rabid gear until I get 40% crit chance and the rest I go into Carrion gear for!!

If you really wanna do a mix of both Power and condition your probaly better of with a HGH build? because Might gives 25 Power and Condition damage!

On the other hand I do have an Engineer friend that run a P/S, Medkit, Tool kit, Elixir gun and Rifle Turret Condition damage and power build , with stastic Discharge build into it, that works great! So Who knows? it might works as well the way you do it! :P I simply just love the big burning numbers to much to lower my condtion damage ^^

Rifle/bombs

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I had probaly made this trait build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcQQFAUl0p6ZX7SyF1LJxIFkuzgeoX/mXRFy/nCyF;TcAKkMIJQyikDJJSjCA

for what you want to do! Gonna be a pain to hit with the bombs without forcefull explosion! also you should pick up Superior Sigil og Fire, and stop using Superior runes of the Ogre, and just take Ruby Orbs (give a better overall stat gain = more damage)

Beside that, Rifle Turret’s and it’s Suprise Shot got buffed last patch, so it’s quite good in a SD build now as well!

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Deep in the night, I was uploading a new video! I present to you all; How to: Shatter Mesmer! A big thanks to Osicat for giving out tips to fight the shatter mesmer, and for helping with the footage!

I hope you all will like this one as much as you liked the first “How to” video, and hopefully people will give feedback if there is somethign the video is lacking! Anyway everyone! Here goes the second How to Video! Enjoy

“How to: Shatter Mesmer”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6indetq-E_Q&feature=youtu.be

Piken Square vs Augury Rock vs Riverside

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Hey Amadeus,

you indirectly answered my question on this very page with your clip, whether PRD is still active, nice timing, thanks.

Mogwow`s necro twink skills are awesome as well. But your intro might be a little exaggerated, Mogwow told me 2 months ago, they just started doing tourneys out of being bored of WvsW-zergs and lack of roaming opponents. They have been doing WvsW only, before, as far as I remember what they told me.

Anyways, nice fights, I enjoyed the vid. Smallscale is sooo beautiful, wish this game would encourage such play much more!

Best Regards

uhh I’m glad I could answear you haha, I didnt read everything, to much whine and bragging for me in this thread atm! I might exaggerated, I was just told they were tPvP players and they wanted duels, so I went with that xD nothing serious meant with it tbh!

and glad you liked the video! I do indeed wish for more WvW small scale as well, instead of these silly large zergs fights we have now!! ://

Boon hate and engineers

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@Kimbald I think the given reason on why they wanted to introduce Boon hate wasn’t because Boons was to strong overall, but more they wanted to add a counter play to heavy Boon bunkers in sPvP, which they would do with Boon Hate! The Boon hate should then ideal be placed on weapons/skills that don’t see much use because they are seen as to weak atm, and then get more play because they now serve a new porpouse! :P at least that’s how I understood it haha

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Very good D/D Elementalists are probaly the second best condition cleasner (Staff is better have they told me, but it’s a worse 1vs1 build) so D/D elemtnalist is the best 1vs1 Condition cleanser pretty much! So we are in for a really tough road there!

The thing is, the really good D/D elementalist will as you say, not take confusion damage, either they cleanse, or stop doing anything! So what I have begun to try, is to apply a bit of small duration conditons, like bleeding, Incendary Proc burning and blinds + one of my 5 stacks confusion! Then he will cleanse it, and then I apply it again! What I*m trying to say, is I use the Confusion to lure out cleansing ability’s, because they will allways cleanse it, and then I beef up my Burning and Poison conditon’s on them (Net Turret + Sitting duck help a lot with the extra 2x Condtions)! and apply everything I have! My burning atm in WvW is doing about 740 each thick, so that will drop many of them as well, so I let that one slowly wither them down while I try lure out cleansing skills with the Confusions!

But yeah, they are still really really tough to drop, but luckey they melee a lot, so I can hit them with bombs as well! I use Rocket Boots or Net Turret as my last Utility against them most of the time! Which either give me one more burn and a stun break, or plenty o Immobilse, Vulerabillity and a stun! But they are as you said, really hard to close the deal on!!

I actually find them easier in a burst build, a HGH power nade build with Rifle will dish out good solid auto attacks, and the nade barrage burst can really drop them fast, also the build in net is golden vs them!

I’m making the new how to video atm, gonna be “How to: Shatter Mesmers” with Osicat being the mesmer, we deiced to make a seperate video for Shatter Mesmers and one for Phantasm memser, because they are so different and I got a lot to explain about them!

I think the next is gonna be Elementalist now Lanny, mostly because you have pointed out they are inded a tough enemy hehe!

and glad you two (Lanny and Ederjack) enjoyed it!

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@Samski as an Engineer player I disagree that out skill set need a tweaking, if you actually get hit by that combo (you can’t put down a Concussion Bomb and land a magnet before it explode), but even if you could actually do that combo, you deserve to die if the Engineer managed to do that combo and you didn’t
A; Had a stun break
or
B: Had a condition removal

heck, there is still the option of not doing anything, and just start running? I mean, a Thief palyer can do a Steal → CoD → Backstab combo a lot easier, and that will deal out the same damage output as you pressing 3 skills with 12 of my confusion stacks on you! So I really don’t see it was a problem in that way! Tho, I wouldn’t mind confusion lowered with 50%, mostly because bad players will still die to it, and good players will still avoid the damage, so wouldn’t matter much, In a tough fight confusion is more a “Lock down” you put on the enemy to prevent him fromdoign stuff, or eat up his condition removal, then it’s a damage skill

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Time will only tell! It all did sadly end with him raging at me for using a OP build, and that Engineer > Elementalists allways, so I sucked because he won a few of the duels, shouldn’t be poissble for a good Engineer to loose to a Elementalist, cause they are so OP! So I highly doubt he learnt anything from it! But time will tell! Was fun none the less

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There is nothing wrong in telling people about “How to play”, it’s just a matter about doing it in a civil and nice tone, and not sound like a kitten when doing it! (Not that meant as your doing it as a kitten, just pointing out there is nothing wrong with giving good adivdes and trying to help players with trouble out ^^)

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Happy Engineers? Talking and having fun together!?!?!

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Well he press skills like a mad man when he got Confusion on him, and then procced to whine about it afterwards! So I’m quite sure you will ineed win with your new build bahaha

WvW Grenadekit vs Retaliation

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Not that I disagree with you about Retalition Ostric and that it need a change!
But I allways thoguht the reason Engineer’s got Grenade kit and FT dealing multi attacks was to have it scale very well with all our stuff like Sharpshooter, and other stuff with: “on hit” or “on crit”, to stack more conditions that way!? So I do think there is a reason for why they do multi Hit’s, it’s just appear they didn’t think about how Retalition would affect that sometimes?

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What!?! He bested you?! You need your revange in an ideal spec for sure! I gues it’s the same Thief, Tapsss, they appear to tag team all the time in WvW and do tPvP together as well! But yeah, seeing as gandara was against AR for quite some time I gues it’s natural you end up against these fellows aswell!

Piken Square vs Augury Rock vs Riverside

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Here goes a bit of dueling footage from this matchup here in WvW against some AR players in a 2vs2 encounter!

Watch the 3 other episodes if you want to know how it goes when the fight is taken to sPvP (link in commnets)!

Aslo, still way to much whine and stupid bragging from fellow Piken players, cut it allready maaan <.<

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Hello again everyone! I had a quite fun, challange sent to me in WvW yesterday, I ended up in a 2vs2 duel against two tPvP players (french people), that wanted to beat us! That didn’t go very well for them, so it ended with a lot of whine from Mogwow (an elementalist) about Confusion being OP in WoW, and that my build was for noobs and wouldn’t stand a chance in sPvP! I thought to myself, THAT he shall not call me!

So Drakeco Dustslinger went to sPvP to test out: Can the Confusion bomb build work in there? I met a Scepter/Dagger Elementalist, a Pistol/Dagger Thief, and a quite nasty Phantasm Mesmer with Greatsword/staff (Phantasm build appear stronger in sPvP then WvW to me, mostly because I don’t think Phantasm have more life in WvW then sPvP, and I deal more damage and have more defence from the higher stats value in WvW then sPvP, correct me if I’m wrong tPvP players :P)

Anyway, it all turned into 4 episodes! Enjoy!:

Episode 1 – “The tPvP duo that went to WvW”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgS1sEasnv4

Episode 2 “The Gunslinging Asura Thief”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7dyRtG53uA&feature=youtu.be

Episode 3 “The Wrath of Mogwow”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjuB3--v99Q&feature=youtu.be

Episode 4 “The Arrival of a champion”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFS6N9yoCi4&feature=youtu.be

hope you guys will enjoy!

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I fought a guardian earlier who when he saw me and I asked him if he wanted to fight, he laughed and said, “An Engi? With a FT? Lol, you sure? Okay…”

I proceeded to drop him to the ground in 15 seconds and the only heal I used was to jump my might up to 25.

He was shocked.

Ahhh Arrogance (Him, not you just so it’s clear haha ^^), the wonderfull killer of giants and the reason the turtle was faster then the Rabbit! Poor silly Guardien! good work!

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Hehe thanks all of you! Glad you liked it!

I actually play around with mine a lot atm! It’s quite usefull vs many classes, but I wish it removed 2 boons instead of 1, would be perfect! tho, 1vs1 I still feel Net Turret with Sitting Duck trait is superior!

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How to: Theif

Here we go guys! Giving it my first try explianing how I battle the sneaky sneaky Theif! GIve it a look, and see if it can help you out, and be more then welcome to give back feedback about what works, and what ain’t working! I’m not sure what my next video is gonna be, cause I got a lof of stuff in the works atm. so time will telL!!

@Fifty you are mroe then welcome! I have tested all my old builds, and all of the are quite potent still, either stronger then before, or the same, so plenty of meat to play with there!

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Smokescreen works! at least my Theif buddy abuse is all the time, but a bit harder to land then say; The Elementalist Whilring Winds! But people allready given the real answear: If it destroy Projectiles it works, but not if it reflects

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I copyed that from the patch notes (Beside Pistol Whip, which was both places), didn’t say anything about sPvP only there! So I highly doubt it, and Thieves in WvW is a joke anyway!

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The engineer has been nerfed into the ground plenty enough times

Which is downright insulting considering their policy of “small nerfs to tune balance”, which has allowed multiple classes to be near god mode since launch.

Typical Patch Notes:
Mesmer: -2% damage on a skill they use occasionally.
Thief: -1% damage on a skill they use occasionally.
Engineer: Powerful trait now useless. Main attack – 30% damage.

The 30% damage nerf to grenade skill 1 was needed and justifyed, still one of the best spamable AoE Damage skills in the game! Also, just because I can remeber it over the top of my head:
Heartseeker: Reduced damage of the 100%-50% threshold by 20%. Damage thresholds changed. Old: 100%-66%, 66%-33%, 33%-0%. New: 100%-50%, 50%-25%, 25%-0%
Dancing Dagger: This skill’s damage has been reduced by 50%.

Pistol Whip got nerfed for 25% or 35% damage, If I remeber right?

that ain’t 1% at least

Also Memser haven’t gotten many direct % damage nerfs, but they gotten longer CD’s on some stuff, and nerfs on the utility! But yeah, not been picked that much on, gotten a lot less stuff fixed!

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I agree with Maskaganda, pretty much the same reason for me as he stated, also I agree with Ayestes, he wrote it way better then I ever would be able to haha

I have pretty much boiled down to just train and test out everything I get my hands on atm, and slowly starting frapping stuff (Adventure Box eating a lot of time atm aswell hehe) and keep the disucssion with some good Engineer’s in game (like Maskaganda) where I actually get to discuss and talk about stuff, and not having to read trough 10x Posts about the same whine over and over again before I get to a good part! :/

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So what I get, is when you have 6 runes of the Engineer sitting in your PvP gear, and 6 rune of the Engineer in your normal gear (when you have double runeset, they will shot you like you have 12, and not 6)! But when you do that with that rune, you say your Rune Bonus stack double or am what do you mean?

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On topic! I would pick the Toolkit (That’s the kit I use the most, and it’s my fav.) Not quite sure what can beat a toolkit with a Prybar tho…

Chainsaw! Power Drill! Dream big!

Super Giga Drill Breaker, is that dreaming big enough? :O
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@Sunny, poor little you, how can you live in such a small world, with such little knowledge about what you spout out? Turret kid? me? You don’t have any freaking idea then! I have created multiple different builds, made videos showcasing them in Roaming WvW and in combat vs some of the better palyers!

Want an build that’s quite viable for solo roaming, small groups and dueling? , and not a one of the two you name? Where you got a open utility spot for just whatever you want? take a look at those videos then:
How about one of the most famous mesmers, and one of the most used builds, the Shatter build?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QYvtwX8v5c

Or, maybe, you would like some mixed action vs a Pure HGH build, one of the buidls you claim being the “only viable builds?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEniANYYKRQ

or how about a mixed video of both Power builds and condition builds vs one of the best Elementalists? would you like that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ON85Lk_qvs

Want something else? what about a build that actually can get a gadget working?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKaXSZ8y0D0

Or how about a burst build, that don’t need 100nad?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYK0s_zT2zE

That’s called data, and testing builds, showing what you learn! I don’t claim my builds are the best of the best, but I sure as one can prove they work in WvW, which I create them for!

Now, I really admire that you want to help Engineers, but the problem is, you do the exact opposite, your killing experimenting and testing out new builds! When you make posts like this, claiming which build are viable and which that ain’t, one freaking single day after a major balance patch, and you even have to take into account not just ours, but also other classes balance changes!
You have no data, you have no real suggestions, you don’t bring anything, not a single thing, that could “help engineers to find them self”! You don’t give new builds a chance, you don’t evne come up with a build to talk about, all you do, is whine and shutting down ideas without testing it!

But you know what? your wrong! If you want to live in your own little “sandbox”, where only two builds is viable! fine by me! Have all the fun you want, then you and google can sit and “have fun” with those big Warriors numbers, the class atm seen as the WORST PvP class in the game!

Have fun with that, cause I’m done with this!

@aydenunited.5729 I would love to do some duels and testing with you, I will contact you when I got the time, a bit busy this weekend!

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Instead of legendary kits I wish the current legendaries would change the appearance of your kits. Like with the Predator it already turns your grenade barrage into plasma grenades. Maybe with the Flameseeker it would make them Holy Hand grenades and with the Quip some kind of firework.

Yeah, you got me on the “Holy Hand grenade”, but I want that sound track to play every single time I kill someone iwth a grenade barrage then! :P

On topic! I would pick the Toolkit (That’s the kit I use the most, and it’s my fav.) Not quite sure what can beat a toolkit with a Prybar tho…

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Glad you like the videos, and even more happy about them in spiring you to edit the builds a bit and create you own! That’s the main thing I hope I achive with these videos!
Still gonna take a bit of time before new videos will come up sadly, mostly cause I’m quite busy IRL, and a new big patch where I will have to check everything out! But so far, every single build I have made a video with is either stronger now, or the same, which means they are all useable in WvW at least!

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But while I do agree we need more builds, and we need more fix and balance stuff! I simply don’t agree that there is only those two viable builds! :/ Again I play about 10 different builds in WvW now, serveral different purposes (but most are for roaming), and none of them is the two builds she post about! I even bother spending time making video’s to show just a jist of them! we got tons of different playstyle’s at our reach (some stronger then others)

I have used my builds vs some of the best WvW players, D/D elementalists like Intigo from Red Guard, pure HGH build like Maskaganda or take the creator of Shattercats builds for mesmers, Osicat, and they stand there ground against those builds! I can at least document my testing and results, and I won’t just base my opinion on something I haven’t tested out prober!

Also, the two reaons I disagree with the way she did it is:
1. She haven’t been able, no matter how you turn and twist it, to test and gather the nessacry data to judge Turrets builds in alle aspects of the game, nor which other builds that’s viable for that matter after the patch
2. When she final talk a tiny bit builds, she choice to be sarcastic apperantly (was lost on me), in combo with the above problem, and end up making herself sound like she have no idea what’s she’s doing! It’s simply hard to take anything serious then!

And I actually think that the Rifle Turret is about perfect on the damage load out now, at least in a 1vs1, when you overcharge it mine in WvW is every second hitting four roughly 650 damage, over 7seconds that’s a quite decent damage + Bleeding! At first I hated it vs Mesmers cause of clones ect, but I have begun to love how it will eat them away while I can focus on other stuff!

I don’t claim all Turrets, or all aspects of Turrets are fine, but more and more is starting to work for them, but personal it’s way to early after the patch for me to give a prober judgement on how good they are! To many changes (for us and everyone else), and to little time!

Anyway, it’s a discussion I will never win, so I won’t bother anymore, I need to get some sleep! and my offer still stands for duels if you want them!

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Guess what you don’t have any! bring Turrets to fight me and after taking the 2 secs to burn them down I will destroy you.

Sure. whenever your up for danceing I would love to give you a round in PvP, I’m never afraid of a challange, and I’m testing the new Turret build I’m working on!
I never stated I only use them in sPvP (With sPvP, I mean Solo Qeueueing in tPvP, because 8vs8 is to messy for me), I’m working on a WvW Turret Roaming/Duel build after the recent patch as well (which is where I spend 90% of my time), and Turret’s can actually work as a detonate/SD combo in 1vs1 combat (trainning more and more, and testing stats atm as well, to see which work)! I think it’s great we can have a gimmick way to use turrets (Detonate), and would like to see builds focused on the Long CD Turrets being placed to defend points (they will never truely be usefull in WvW that way) but in tPvP they might actually soon start to be viable, that’s what I mean with testing, a new patch just buffed them, quite to early to judge it!

The reason I point out on what the OP is typing, is she try create a topic where she want to be taken serious about balance and talk about viable builds. and she start out showing she have no idea how an actually SD detonate build work, or how much damage you can press out by dropping the turrets the right moment! Heck she even don’t get that just because a Null field, or other boon/conditon remvoal exist, it’s just a “counter” to a build, and all builds have those, nothing is perfect, and yet she make’s it sound like it’ an allmost broken build of it! If you want to be taken serious, show you actually have just a bit of knowledge about the class, and don’t just whine over stuff that ain’t prober tested! The don’t share any video data, number data, or any of the real solid arguments that’s been giving about some of Turrets problems.

I don’t claim Turret’s are perfect, nor the best or ideal build (still getting better and better for 1vs1 dueling and 1vs1 point defending)! But I’m tired of people that only whine and try shut down any construtive discussion about new stuff with pure whine, covering it up with “sarcastic” comments if you wanna call it that, when It ain’t true! She posted the topic 1 day after the patch, without any video data, actually any data at all, claiming only two viable builds could work (personal I got several builds working just fine, with video data on, so dunno what’s that about)! You simply can’t have tested/adjusted everything to all the new changes (like Culling removal, or nerfs/changes to other classes)! You simply can’t, and that’s why OP is more a troll then I will ever be!

You can call me a troll all you want, I really don’t care, I enjoy my Engineer, all the builds I can keep creating and have succes with in what I do at the game, keeps me going, I simply get tired of the ignorance you find on these forums so often!

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First of, I meant the first part as I only would bother respond to that part about SD, and also this is my last respond, cause your clearly don’t have any idea about what a constructive discussion is what that respond haha

Nice work ignoring the part where I talk about how just dropping it for 7 seconds also would increase your damage output aswell as an outgoing damage, and seeing as your build is a SD build, and not a Turret focused build, it wouldn’t make any sense for you to be dependt on the damage output from turrets alone! They are actually also designed to be used in builds aswell where you blow them up, and not only builds where you place them (see how they work with SD and Accelrated Packet Turrets)! I’m doing quite well with testing that out in WvW now, so funny how that works huh Sunny?

Also just because that’s the only video data I have my hands on (and that’s even before the patch that just buffed the turrets): This Engineer use the Turrets as another source of out going damage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oaqw8bQh-DA
Oh no, breaking the law! His actually boosting his damage by burning from the Rocket Turret he let stand there and auto attack!

Also, a lot of testing is going on atm. on new ways to use the Turrets for damage, in sPvP I see a lot of testing going on! It’s way to early just judge anything yet about how usefull they are! Now, you can keep being a Immature about this if you want, and I’m 100% in my right to analysis your playstyle from what you wrote:

“Am I saying I would never use them? No, I absolutely would. In fact, my current build has a rifle turret taking up a utility slot… Because I want that Surprise Shot for my SD build. ;P Oh, you meant am I actually putting the turret itself down on the ground? Hahahaha! NO. Of course I’m not… that would be silly!”

Because you clearly have no idea about what’s going on if that’s what you believe, and you should’t spout nonsens! Have a nice day sunny boy

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Ahahs doh-_- year my bad, the fortage i looked up on, was my regen boon running, so had mistanken the the numbers! Stupid mistake from my side :/

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I will check out the numbers when I get home it’s just over the top of my memories that it’s one of the numbers that pop out, think i got some fortage before the patch, so I cn check if something changed with last patch ^^

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I don’t have problems in PvE either, my support build is still awesome, true I miss my free Super Elixir from Kit Refinement, but I’m still basking out a ton of AoE healing and I boosted my damage a bit in that build now I don’t need the Kit Refinement (which I still hope they are removing the shared CD on)

I can dish out one kitten of damage with my Grenade kit and the 15-20 stakcs of Vul. You can stack with most Nade builds make your DPS sky rocket! So we still got stuff doing!
tPvP? still wating for reports from those players! I don’t do that myself!

The builds you guys make are really good! But saying we are fine is uncorrect imho. Do you guys ever use gadgets in your builds? No. You make really great builds, but the engineer only has 2 skill-lines to pick from:
- Elixers
- Kits
You’ll hardly see anyone using gadgets/turrets in WvW for example. The fact that half of our skills are NOT USED by the community speaks for itself don’t you think? These skills are just bad.

My video with most hits, and one of my best build, is actually using rocket Bouts, and i have begun to use them, and net turret and mine again! I’m still working on turret builds after the buff, but so far it’s looking good! Tho, I do agere that gadgets need work, and I actually talk alot about that in my communtaire videos, so White i say we are fine, i still think we got broken stuff we need fixed, but it’s going the right Way atm

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It is affected by healing! If I remeber right mine is doing about 325 hp/pr second atm in my healing support build, which is quite neat in combo with all the other stuff I got going!

Is that a recent change? Because it certainly didn’t used to be effecting by healing power…

Yeah last patch i think i was, gave more healing scaling to bombs and super elixir aswell if. I remember right

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It’ s just 30 points in inventions and full focus on healing stat gear in www with healing food

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I don’t have problems in PvE either, my support build is still awesome, true I miss my free Super Elixir from Kit Refinement, but I’m still basking out a ton of AoE healing and I boosted my damage a bit in that build now I don’t need the Kit Refinement (which I still hope they are removing the shared CD on)

I can dish out one kitten of damage with my Grenade kit and the 15-20 stakcs of Vul. You can stack with most Nade builds make your DPS sky rocket! So we still got stuff doing!
tPvP? still wating for reports from those players! I don’t do that myself!