Guild Wars 2

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

That is an outdated build! The reason you don’t use it anymore is because of the nerf to Automated Response! It is a useless trait now!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

That’s a thilly question! If you can hit someone without them moving or hitting you back, why wouldn’t you want to do it as often as you can!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

First of all, congrats on level 80! Wahoo!

Second, unless you already bought Runes of the Scholar I would change those runes to Runes of Strength! You get many more might stacks from Juggernaut that way! Also if you’re playing solo, the only person that the bad guys will hit is you! You probably won’t be over 90% enough to get the most use out of Runes of the Scholar!

Third, I’d take out points from Inventions and put them into Alchemy for Deadly Mixture! The 15% extra damage is amazing and better than the slight power increase from Energized Armor! Also the 15% bonus damage you get applies to your toolbelt abilities and Static Discharge if you have your Flamethrower Kit out! It’s great! The Alchemy trait line additionally gives boon duration, which again helps with might stacking!

As for your sigils, I recommend Sigils of Strength and Force! Strength gives even more might stacks and Force is just great damage!

Hope that helped! Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Here is the power build I run! 2k crits easy on Elementalists, Necromancers, Thieves, and any other class that doesn’t have armor!

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQFAUlUUp+qlcxELseNybBNyucGRWxL+5AE0hC-TJxHwADeAAa2fAwFAQZZAA

Here is the build in action! Wahoo!
http://www.twitch.tv/livskis/c/4108133

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Look at how annoying this is! Also look at these HD graphics! http://www.twitch.tv/livskis/c/4647849

That was in a hotjoin! What if I was actually against good players! Vee Wee probably would have died because of these thilly popups! And that was a good instance! Usually they come more frequent! Please Arenanet! Fix this thilliness for the benefit of all!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Because the overcharged Rocket Turret has a knockdown! Everybody knows only Warriors are allowed to have AoE CC! Additionally the Rocket Turret is not that great in any game mode so use it sparsely!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

When I click wait to join a PvP game, the window will pop back up 10 seconds later! When I click wait, it means I’m doing something! Maybe I am playing a hotjoin! Maybe I am in a duel! Maybe I am playing WvW! Maybe I just want to idle in the Heart of the Mists! Regardless of what I am doing, when I click Wait, I want to wait! I don’t want a pop up to appear every 5 seconds telling me I can enter a PvP game! If I clicked wait, then I know I can enter a PvP game! I just chose to wait! I am not some kind of thilly bear thimpleton that needs to be constantly reminded every 2 seconds that I can enter a PvP arena! That’s just thilly!

Vee Wee, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80, has a suggestion for Arenanet! Make it so the pop up window appears once! If you click Go Now, then you enter the zone! If you click Wait, then no more pop ups appear until the timer expires or you choose to manually enter! I think this is a great idea my frands! What do you all think!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Hello my name is Liv “Vee Wee” C.! I am too old to say here and I want you guys to vote for me! Vee Wee! Vee Wee is the #1 Engineer player NA and world first rank 80 and also the frandliest Asura around! Vee Wee is the inventor and pioneer of the P/P condi Grenade/Tool Kit build! Vee Wee also created the Flame Turret Meta build! There is a special Engineer technique named after Vee Wee called the Veecap! About to lose a match? No problem! Veecap a point and save your team!

Anyways I hope you all vote for Vee Wee to be your Guild Warts 2 all star!

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PS Visit Vee Wee’s stream @ http://www.twitch.tv/Livskis! It is the #1 stream NA and has the best graphics!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Vee Wee would be happy to do an interview! Seeing as how Vee Wee is #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80, Vee Wee thinks people would be happy to watch an interview with Vee Wee!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

I’m not trying to be mean but going full turrets is very bad! It’s especially bad if you don’t run any turret traits! Full turret Engineers are quite useless in PvP!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Bunker Down is pretty awful!

1. You have to go deep into Firearms which is a pretty bad tree!
2. The trait itself stinks!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Vote for Vee Wee for Guild Warts 2 All Star!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Ring of Earth is Sigil of Geomancy! Many Necromancers run this sigil!

Hope that helped! Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Vee Wee currently runs this build http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQJAqalUUp+qlcxELseRCbBNqxAqNIyOWlPfgAkUA-TJhHwA82fAwJAAZZgAPIAA and does not have any trouble with DD Elementalists! It’s very possible Vee Wee hasn’t faced a good one yet! Just watch out for their burning and load up your conditions after they go into Water Attunement!

Warriors are pretty ez for Vee Wee too! The only problem is that they take a really long time to kill! After Berserker Stance is over, just splatter all your conditions on them and watch them die! Wahoo!

I agree with the camera angle! It should just go into first person if your back is against a wall or something like Guild Warts 1! That would be just swell! Expect another 8 months for this change!

Asuras are the best! The qtest!

AI builds are the best for an Engineer! Turret Engineers are worthless and ez to kill! Condi Necromancers beat Engineers so bad but for some reason they decide to go minion master! A minion master is just a useless Necromancer and ez food for an Engineer!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

I’m sorry but Elixir S and Elixir Gun are the only real stunbreak options the Engineer has! Goggles and Slick Shoes are just bad! The reason why Elixir S is so good is because it has many defensive uses! You can stealth a downed teammate getting stomped and then stealth revive! You can stealth away from a team fight to decap an unguarded point! You can stealth stomp! You can stealth run to a point and get a really strong opening attack on a defender! The invulnerability is great if your’e getting focused as opposed to other stunbreaks where they can still train you after you use it! You can invuln stomp! Often getting a stomp off determines the outcome of a teamfight! You can invuln revive your teammates! You get all of these with 1 utility! Golly gee willikers that’s pretty swell!

Elixir Gun has its merits too seeing as it’s a full kit that provides great utility for your team! Slick Shoes and Utility Goggles, however, are all poopypies! It’s all about getting the most bang for your buck and Utilities Goggles and Slick Shoes give no bang bang!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

I don’t want to derail this thread but I can’t in good conscience let a new player get it into his head that he could run full turrets and succeed against competent players!

First turret Engis are not and can never be bunkers! They have 0 stability and their one single stunbreak can only be used if they sacrifice their Protection uptime and 2 of their knockbacks! Gee whiz that doesn’t sound very good! They can be mediocre home point watchers but the way turret Engis play is to set up shop on a point and stay! Having someone idle at home for the entire game is already a pretty big handicap to the team!

They have no mobility to attack far point! They will just get intercepted and they can either take massive damage heading to the point or blow their extremely long cooldown utilities to try and fight, and when they fight they are limited to the range of their turrets! Because of this they can never skirmish with anyone off point and again have no mobility to get to a point if and when they die! And you will die!

They could go mid but their turrets risk being destroyed very quickly in the clusterkitten of AoE spamming! Plus usually the only people on the point are people with Stability! This single boon renders the entire concept (knockbacks) of turret Engi useless and there are many forms of Stability with the plethora of Warriors and Elementalists around, plus Stand Your Ground from an actual bunker class! Also if turret Engis are focused they are goners! They have no way to mitigate anything or have any escapes. It’s a rough life!

OP, if you really wish to play turrets then go for it while you’re at a low rating! As you get better and face better people I’d seriously consider using a build that can actually do things! Unfortunately GW2’s PvP is so small that low rated players are often matched up with high level ones so I really can’t recommend anyone ever running a turret build!

Hope that helped! Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

I’m sorry my frands but Turret Engineers are pretty useless! Take it from me! Vee Wee! Retired #1 Engi NA! If you want to play Engineer, don’t put any points into the Inventions tree! It’s pretty awful!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Rifle is thuper for assaulting a point! The control it gives is great! One Overcharged Shot and Net Shot and the point is decapped!

Generally offhand pistol is reserved for pure condi builds that don’t have any other burning besides Incendiary Powder! If you run, for example, Bomb Kit or Flamethrower, or Flame Turret, or even Rocket Boots you can take shield offhand!

Hope that helped! Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Thanks for all the replies! I don’t want to be mean but some people here I don’t think understand what I am trying to say in this thread! For example!

1. Well Vee Wee, Engineers should be weak to conditions!
Yes I agree! But I think you guys think there are only two choices available! We either be super extremely awful weak to conditions like we are now, or we be totally immune to conditions! That’s not the case! Having more condition removal (especially ones that aren’t not built into the meta build variants now, but I’ll get to that later!) doesn’t mean we’re not weak to conditions anymore! We’ll still be weak to conditions! I hope you understand my view now because it’s the 4th time I’m typing it!

2. Vee Wee you noob! If Engineers get more condition removal, then something else has got to give!
I agree with this too! Unless Engineers have 10 trait points more than everybody else, things like Protection Injection or Backpack Injection or whatever will have to be sacrificed! That was the Inventions/Tools Tree condition removal option! The other options were things like offhand pistol or gadgets! Are you telling me someone with condition removal on Slick Shoes or Personal Battering Ram or whatever is going to “cripple other classes” like Ele or Ranger or whatever when fighting an Engi! That is just thilly! I hope you understand this now!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! It’s me! Vee Wee, retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

My frands and fellow Engineers! Are you tired of being forced into using explosives to be useful! I know I sure am! Wahoo! It’s time for some balance changes! Here are some ideas frands! Let’s also hear some of your ideas! Yippee~!

Healing Abilities!

AED!
-In addition to the current effects, if you receive a would be death blow, you are cleansed of all conditions! For 5 seconds afterwards, condition duration is reduced by 50%!
Static Shock!
-Cast time reduced from 3/4 to 1/2!

Utilities!

Tool Kit!
-Thwack cast time reduced from 1 to 1/2! This attack can now cleave 2 extra targets!
-Box of Nails duration increased from 4 to 5!

Grenade Kit!
-Range reduced from 1200 to 1000!

Flamethrower Kit!
-Flame Jet channel time reduced from 2.25 to 2! Number of hits reduced from 10 to 5! Each hit deals double damage to make up for half amount of hits! Total damage is further increased by 30%!
-Air blast cooldown increased from 15 to 20!
-Napalm burn duration increased from 1 second to 3 seconds to anybody who crosses the line!
-Smoke Vent is now a blast finisher!
-Incendiary Ammo burn time reduced from 3 to 2!

Elixir U!
-Removed Frenzy and Haste effects!

Elixir C!
-Removed cast time so it will cleanse fear!
-Cooldown reduced from 40 to 30 seconds!
-Maximum of 5 conditions converted!

Flame Turret!
-Overcharged Flame Turret now pulses blind every second down from every 2 seconds!

Rocket Turret!
-Rocket (toolbelt ability!) is now a targeted ability that shoots in a straight line!

Utility Goggles!
-Cooldown reduced from 40 to 30!
-Analyze is now a self buff that allows you to see stealthed players within a 360 radius! It does not apply revealed like Sic Em because that’s just silly!

Mortar!
-Mortar is now a kit! 1-5 skills each have a charge! Each charge has a 30 second cooldown! Launch Mortar Shot has 3 charges! 2-5 have 1 charge! Charges come off cooldown 1 at a time! That means if you pull out a fresh Mortar Kit, you have 3 charges on your auto attack! If you use them all you’ll need to wait about 120 seconds before you have all 3 again!
-Mortar abilities that deal damage can now crit!

Traits

Incendiary Powder!
-When Incendiary Powder is up, the Engineer’s weapon (or hands if there’s no weapon!) gives off a fiery glow!

Grenadier!
-Additional range decreased from 300 to 200!

Fireforged Trigger!
-Also increases Flamethrower and Elixir Gun damage by 10%!

Coated Bullets!
-Grants Static Shot an additional bounce!

Bunker Down!
-On critical hit, you fire an explosive projectile from your toolbelt that latches onto the target! After 3 seconds it detonates and deals whatever damage the current Bunker Down mine deals! 180 radius!
-Cooldown increased from 2 to 3 seconds!

Protective Shield!
-Changed trait to remove 1 condition when critically hit! 10 second cooldown!

Deadly Mixture!
-Changed trait to have a 25% chance to leave a poison field on Elixir toss or consumption!

Formula 409!
-Increased conditions cleansed on Elixir consumption from 1 to 2. Tossed Elixirs still only remove 1 condition!
-Toss Elixir R will remove 1 condition per pulse instead of 2 when traited with Formula 409!

Automated Response!
-At 33% health, removes 3 conditions! 40 second cd!

Scope!
-Moved to adept tier!

Kit Refinement!
-Moved to Master Tier!
-Kits now have a unique charge! There is a maximum of 1 charge per kit and each charge has a 25 second cooldown! When you use a kit that has a charge, the next ability used from that kit has an added effect! This does not affect Toolbelt abilities!
Grenade Kit
-Throw an extra grenade! This extra grenade is identical to one Shrapnel Grenade!
Bomb Kit
-In addition to its normal effects, your next bomb also pulls foes towards you in a 240 radius!
Flamethrower
-Your next damaging attack causes a 240 radius aoe that burns for 2 seconds!
Elixir Gun
-Your next damaging attack is infused with sticky glue! Immobilize foes for 1 second and cripple them for 4 seconds after!
Tool Kit
-Your next attack places a Magnetic Shield on you for 3 seconds!
Med Kit
-Swapping to Med Kit removes Chilled, Crippled, and Immobilized! <-This one seems a bit OP but I couldn’t think of anything!
Mortar Kit
Your next Mortar ability doesn’t consume a charge!

Packaged Stimulants!
- Bandages are thrown much faster! Similar to grenade speed!
-Throw Antidote changed from -25% cooldown to removing 2 conditions!

Speedy Gadgets!
-Replaced with Elixir Infused Toolbelt!
-Removes 1 condition when you use a toolbelt ability!

Gadgeteer!
-Reduces recharge on Gadgets by 20%!
-AED does not grant retaliation! Instead when you heal you also discharge a 180 radius electric shock that dazes anyone caught inside! Does not need to be a death blow to activate!

Thanks for reading! Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

This discussion tapered off pretty quickly my frands! I still think Engineers need more condition removal! Let’s hear what the devs think about this situation! Let’s also here some community input! Wahoo!

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Sylvari.6083:

ArrDee.2573:

bethekey.8314:

This is the first time I have heard of this issue. Certainly, such a new and interesting topic will alert Anet to its importance and action will be issued within the week. Thank you for bringing it to the community’s and Jesus’ attention!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

I laughed out loud when I read this! Very funny my frand! Very funny!

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Can you stop with the “Hello frands! Vee Wee here retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!” bullkitten please?

Hello frands! Vee Wee here retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Don’t derail this topic by attacking me my frand! This is about Skyhammer and how awful it is!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Thanks for all the replies my frands! It makes me happy to see a healthy discussion about balance! It shows you care about the game! I will try to address some of your issues that you brought up!

Healing Turret!
Yes I think it’s one of the best heals in the game! But with the standard Engi build, it’s usually our only form of condition removal! Our only form of condition removal is tied to our heal! Our heal is our only form of condition removal! Do we cure conditions and be susceptible to everything! Or do we not heal and die to conditions! For the third, and hopefully last, time don’t you frands understand how terrible that is! To have your only form of condition removal tied to your heal geez louise what a mess! Why don’t you give it a try!

Mesmers!
Yes basically all Mesmers except Countless are weak to conditions! Nobody is disputing that! However Mesmers usually run Null Field! It removes more conditions than Healing Turret and isn’t tied to their heal skill! Furthermore Mesmers have insane mobility! Blinks are golly gee whiz insane because you can blink through walls, blink up ledges, blink through ledges, blink up 8 stories, blink up 8 stories through a wall and up a ledge, etc etc! If a Mesmer gets focused, he can blink away! He can go invis! He can become invuln! He can portal out! The mobility and defensive options are just holy smokes wacky tobacky! Mesmers are weak to conditions yes! But they can still beat them! Engineers on the other hand…!

Necromancers!
To the guy who said Engineers can easily counter Terrormancers! What game are you playing! Elixir Engineer! Crazy! This is not 2012! Elixir Engineers are long gone and with good reason! They’re bad! Terrormancers are a 100% hard counter to Engineers! Like I said before, I believe it’s the hardest counter in the game! If you are a Terrormancer and are losing to an Engineer, well I don’t want to be mean but there are some l2p issues going on here!

More Condi Removal!
You guys have been saying that if Engineers get more condition removal, then other things should be nerfed! Did you not read my suggestions! Do you guys even play Engineer! Or even know Engineer traits and abilities! Why would anyone post in this thread if they don’t know the Engineer class! Cray-ay-ayzee! Putting points into the Inventions tree for condition removal will nerf either our protection uptime, or our sustain, or vigor uptime! Engineers do not have 16 trait points believe it or not! Using offhand pistol instead of shield is a huge defensive nerf! Using Gadgets is a huge nerf! Taking 409 means not taking Backpack Regen! Or Protection Injection! And forced to use at least 1 Elixir! Nerfed! Please at least make an attempt to learn the class before you try to put down something you obviously do not understand!

If I can choose to have a weaker overall build and not be a Necromancer’s toilet, I’ll take that option!

Thanks for reading! Wahoo! Bye frands!

bethekey.8314:

This is the first time I have heard of this issue. Certainly, such a new and interesting topic will alert Anet to its importance and action will be issued within the week. Thank you for bringing it to the community’s and Jesus’ attention!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

I laughed out loud when I read this! Very funny my frand! Very funny!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

First of all thank you for all the replies in this thread! It brings a tear to my eye that so many people care about Guild Warts 2! Maybe even more than the devs do! Wahoo!

Second if Mesmers here are just going to spout out all the condition removal that Engineers have regardless of how useful those traits and abilities actually are, I’ll do the same! Mesmers have a mantra that removes 4 conditions from yourself and your team! Signets can be traited to remove conditions and Mesmers have 5 signets! They can trait to remove 2 conditions on heal and if you combine it with signet heal, that’s 3 conditions removed on heal if you run signet heal! Is that more than Healing Turret! Yes it is! Crazy! Arcane Thievery can transfer conditions! Null Field is a pretty big and powerful aoe condition removal ability! Torch can remove conditions! Mesmers can also use Lyssa Runes because they have a useful, low cooldown elite that they can use, AND they can proc Lyssa without even using their elite! Geez louise that’s just plain ole insane in the membrane! How useful is this information you ask! Not very! So goshdarn it please stop listing every condition removal ability Engineers have because 1. it doesn’t matter and 2. Mesmers have more anyway!

PS to the guy that said Mesmers ran 0 conditions in ToL: first it doesn’t matter what people run in ToL! Second Mesmers in ToL ran Null Field because it cleanses more conditions than Healing Turret, strips boons which Healing Turret can’t do, and the condition removal isn’t tied to the heal skill! Wowzerz!

Third there seems to be a lot of Necromancers against this idea! What a shame it would be if Necromancers weren’t a 100% extremely hard counter for Engineers because of our lack of condition removal! Necromancer vs Engi, dare I say it, is the hardest counter in the game, something Arenanet says it tries to avoid! Yes, yes I know what Arenanet usually says shouldn’t be taken too too seriously, but for other hard counter abilities like Berserker Stance or Diamond Skin, or prenerf Automated Response, condition builds could outplay them! When you take a competent Necromancer, not even Vee Wee retired #1 Engineer NA and world first rank 80 can win! Hardest of hard counters! Rock hard! Solid!

Lastly, if we do receive more condition removal we will still be pretty weak to them! For starters, mostly what I suggested you’d have to change your build for, thus weakening your build to get extra condition removal! Things like the Inventions tree or offhand pistol aren’t typically good builds! And again I’m not saying Engineers should have godly condition removal like Necromancers or Warriors or Rangers! I’m saying what we have right now isn’t enough! A typical Engineer build only has 1-2 ways of removing conditions! Our primary and usually only form of condition removal is tied to our heal! Do you not realize how goshdarn awful that is! If we do decide to run Elixir Gun, that’s still only 1 condition every 20 seconds! Holy smokes not that good! I hope you frands understand!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Inscrutable.8347:

If Engis had great condi removal on top of:

• Incredible CC, single and AoE
• Incredible mobility
• Perma dodging
• The best AI build in the game
• AoE Damage
• Stealth
• Best active heal in the game

Then we would see a whole new level of broken that old school Hambow and Spirit Ranger would be humbled by.

Hello frands! Vee Wee here retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

We are not asking for thuper dee duper op condition removal like Necros or Rangers or Warriors! We just need more! Plus the Engi meta doesn’t have all of those things into one build! Don’t exaggerate you thilly goothe!

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Bhawb.7408:

And Necromancers should have lots of boons and mobility, and Thieves need to tank!

Seriously though, its designed for them to be weak to conditions. The issue is the existence of Warriors who spit in the face of the “weaknesses” they are supposed to have.

Hello frands! Vee Wee here retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Interesting input from a Necromancer frand! I bet it would be a gosh darn shame for you if your class didn’t 100% counter mine anymore! Engineers already have plenty of weaknesses! Focus fire! Burst damage! Not many stunbreaks! Retal! And of course conditions!

And every class has weaknesses! That’s thilly! Warriors say hello! Balance!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

I’d like to see Smoke Vent become a blast finisher!
I’d like to see Flame Jet deal more damage!
I’d like Napalm to burn people who cross it for a longer duration!
Other than that I think it’s a pretty good kit as long as you respect its limits!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here #1 retired Engi NA and world first rank 80!

My frands! I am here to talk about Engineers and their lack of condition removal! Engineers truly have the least amount of condition removal in the game out of any class! For too long my frands we have suffered in silence! Well not any longer! The squeaky wheel gets the grease my frands! Warriors have complained nonstop about their lack of condition removal and presto change-o in a mere 6 months Berserker Stance and Cleansing Ire were introduced! Well my fellow Engineers, our 6 month timer starts now!

Arenanet stated in their latest Ready Up that they do not like hard counters! Have the people at Arenanet ever played an Engineer! Have they ever fought a condition class like Necromancer as an Engineer! Vee Wee is the retired #1 Engi NA but if Vee Wee decides to fight a condition Necromancer that’s completely new to the class, Vee Wee has to try super hard to win the fight! This problem has persisted for years now! Years! This cannot continue! Here are some suggestions for you my frands!

Elixir Gun!
Have Fumigate remove conditions from yourself as well as your teammates! Adjust cooldown accordingly! Maybe Super Elixir could remove 2 conditions on impact instead of 1! Maybe both of these things!

The Inventions Tree!
As of now, the Inventions tree is one of the worst trees in the entire game! It’s just useless! Replace some of those traits with something that will remove conditions! Maybe something like activating a tool belt ability removes one condition!

Gadgets!
Gadgets are definitely underused! Maybe you could expand upon their traits in the Tools tree to remove a condition on use! Maybe have AED remove all conditions when you receive a would be death blow and then have it shorten condition duration on you for a few seconds as an innate function! AED is just garbage right now!

Glue Bomb/Shot!
Glue is sticky my frands yes it is! Maybe conditions can stick to it! Maybe it could remove condition in an aoe on impact sort of like Super Elixir! It would also give offhand Pistol some love! Offhand pistol definitely needs some love!

Formula 409!
You know how HGH grants two stacks of might on elixir consumption and only one for a thrown elixir! Maybe 409 could act in the same way! When you chug an elixir, it will remove two conditions! If you throw it, it will stay the same with one condition! While you’re at it, fix the Toss Elixir R and 409 bug! If you have 409 traited the tossed elixir will remove 2 per pulse! Have it remove 1 per pulse with 409 traited!

That’s all I could come up with for now! Maybe some other people will post here and think of a great idea! Please listen to our plight my frands at Arenanet! Engineers get demolished by conditions more than any other class! Please help!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Edit: Here are some new ideas for condition removal that I thought of!

Automated Response
Prenerf it was really strong! Post nerf it’s useless! Let me tell you why it’s useless! Engineers as you know have very little access to condition removal! Automated Response is like an insurance company! It does not cover preexisting conditions! Therefore when Automated Response kicks in it’s basically useless! Now let’s look at another scenario, this one being highly unlikely! You have no conditions on you when Automated Response kicks in! Well it kicks in, but gosh darn it! Engineers have very little condition removal! The reduced duration doesn’t really help much and we die anyway!

Proposed changes:
Automated Response removes 3 conditions when you reach 33% health 20 sec cd! This one I like the best!

Automated Response removes 5 conditions when you reach 25% health! 60 sec cd! This makes it more of a desperation trait! It removes many conditions but the long cd usually means it will only happen once per fight!

Automated Response passively removes 2 conditions every 10 seconds! This one I really, really dislike but Arenanet loves passive abilities so I thought I’d throw it in there!

Automated Response makes player and up to 5 players within a 100000 radius permanently immune to conditions! In fact when players are afflicted with a condition, the afflict-er and anyone within a 100000 radius dies. Engineer’s team receives 499 points if playing tPvP. I really like this one too but it seems a little op.

RoRo.8270:

How could pvp be dead when it was never alive?

Hello frands! Vee Wee here retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Well that’s a thilly question! Not being alive is the very definition of being dead!

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Hello frands! Vee Wee here retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Capture the Flag would be the worst because the thilly people at Arenanet though adding in immob stacking would be a thuper thwell idea! Well it was a terrible godawful idea but for some reason it’s still in the game! Please Arenanet don’t waste what little resources you have on CTF mode when thilly things like immob stacking are in the game!

3v3 arenas would be da best! Vee Wee, #1 retired Engi NA and world first rank 80, would play this game again if 3v3 arenas were introduced! What a shame to see such great combat wasted on thuper boring conquest mode! What a shame to see this great game go stagnant after 2 years of the same stuff over and over and over again!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Who cares about rewards! PvP players have never gotten rewards! If we really wanted rewards, we’d play PvE! PvP is just too b-b-b-b-boring! Only 1 game mode for 2 years! 2 years! Soon it will be over 2 years! Same thing! Every time! What a waste! This game had so much potential! Hopefully the devs can make this game better soon so Vee Wee, retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80 can come back and play!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Your idea is great my frand! Unfortunately kitless Engineers will still be bad! We don’t have a lot of weapons to choose from! In fact we don’t have any weapons to choose from! If we want to weapon swap it will be from Rifle to Pistol and back! These weapons are very weak by themselves because they are balanced around having kits to swap to and from! I think this is a great idea but in order for it to work we need more and better weapons! If you ask me, judging from how Arenanet balances this game, everyone will quit before that ever happens! A real shame! Real shame!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

’Ello frands! Vee Wee over here #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Services in the Heart of the Mists sounds like a great idea! But porting there should be restricted if they implement those NPCs! Maybe something like you can only port to the Heart of the Mists every 15 minutes! Or maybe you get a free port to the Heart of the Mists every hour and you have to pay a fee for any subsequent trips until the next hour!

Wahooo! Bye frands!

’Ello frands! Vee Wee over here #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

PvE and WvW haven’t changed much! But in PvP the Celestial Amulet is pretty good! Plus Engis have great hybrid builds! Wahooo!

Wahooo! Bye frands!

’Ello frands! Vee Wee over here retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

I’m glad you like my zerg build my frand Forestnator! I think Potent Elixirs was a misclick on my part though! I use Protection Injection or Backpack Regenerator during WvW zergplay! But builds aren’t set in stone! If you like Potent Elixirs, keep on using it! There are definitely upsides to that trait just like you said! In any case, thanks for pointing out the typo in my build list! I have updated it!

Wahooo! Bye frands!

’Ello frands! Vee Wee over here retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

That’s not very fair my frand tigirius! You are taking all the bad parts about Engineers, like the new useless grandmaster trauts and utilities, and using that as an argument that Engineers aren’t thuper awesome in PvE! I could say the same thing about Warriors! Well golly gee whiz Warrior physical utilities like Kick and Stomp are just thuper underwhelming! I bet they are just terrible at PvE! But we know that isn’t true you thilly bear you! Next time try to list the positive things about Engineer like how we can have crazy amounts of survivability, damage, support, and utility all in one build!

Hope that helped! Wahooo! Bye frands!

’Ello frands! Vee Wee here retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

This is the build I’ve been using for a while!
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQJAqelUUpCrtbxELseNSbBNqwA6Ici2+5CEgjC-TxRBABU8AAuS5HN7PgneAAOBAUq+jZKBBA-e

But more recently I said to myself, “Vee Wee, retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80, you shouldn’t support random pugs anymore! Use a more selfish build!” Then I thought, “Great idea Vee Wee! I’ll use this version so I can stack more might for myself (and occasionally my yucky teammates) during and in between fights!”
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQJAqelUUp+q1axELseNSbBNqwA6IUh2+5CEgjC-TxRBABU8AAuS5HN7PgneAAOBAUq+jZKBBA-e

Hope that helped! Wahoo! Bye frands!

’Ello frands! Vee Wee here #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

At longer ranges use your pistol (or Elixir Gun if you have it!) to stack bleeds and proc Incendiary Powder! Incendiary Powder is insanely strong! When you get closer, try to land your Freeze Grenade! If you do it will be much easier to land your other grenades!

If you’re a power build, try setting up combos with rifle and Tool Kit! Combined both of these weapons give amazing CC which makes it easy to land your grenades!

Hope that helped! Wahoo! Bye frands!

’Ello frands! Vee Wee here retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

This is a thilly thread! Engis are great! Especially at everything! PvP! PvE! WvW! We can do it all! And this is coming from Vee Wee, #1 PvE, WvW, and retired #1 PvP Engi NA so you know it’s reliable info! Engis don’t need any changes!

Hope that helped! Wahoo! Bye frands!

’Ello frands! Vee Wee here retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Hello my frands! It’s me! Vee Wee retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80! Don’t you guys think it’s time for a new game mode! How long do the people of Arenanet think we can stand conquest mode! Conquest mode was fun for the first 24 months but now we need more! 2v2 Arena, 3v3 Arena, 4v4 Arena, 5v5 Arena, GvG, King of the Hill, Capture the Flag, Team Deathmatch, and whatever else we can think of! It’s time to add at least one of these game modes! The world is your oyster Arenanet! If we add new game modes then PvP retired people like Vee Wee, retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80, can PvP again!

PS If it were up to me, I’d add in arenas! Arenas are thuper fun and, along with Legendary Weapons, the true measure of PvP skill in this game!

Thanks for reading! Wahoo! Bye frands!

’Ello frands! Vee Wee here retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Kits are the most useful, particularly the Grenade Kit!

Hope that helped! Wahoo! Bye frands!

If you like to be dead all the time, run a SD build! If you like to win, run 30/0/0/20/20!
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQFAUlUUp+qlcxELseNybBNyucGRWxn85AE0hC-TJxHwADeAAa2fAwFAQZZAA
If you are dying instantly at melee range, you just need to learn how to dodge better! Try to set up burst kill combos like Magnet > Prybar > Overcharge Shot > Throw Wrench > Net Shot > Blunderbuss > Grenade Barrage
Don’t use grenade skills at extreme ranges. Use rifle auto.
Make good use of your CC! Chill, Blind, Immob, Pull, Launch! That’s the key to any rifle build!

Here is a clip of the build in action! http://www.twitch.tv/livskis/c/4108133

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Sincerely,
Vee Wee retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

You should try doing the TA reward track! You can salvage exotic rabid gear for rabid inscriptions! They are worth a lot of money! Also you can turn in 30 Deadly Blooms for light armor and then salvage it for linen! Linen is one of the most expensive crafting mats on the market!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

http://twitch.tv/Livskis

Thanks Jasher and Arken for supporting the #1 stream NA! http://twitch.tv/Livskis! However they forgot to mention that not only is Vee Wee the #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80, but that http://twitch.tv/Livskis has graphics so HD you’ll poop your pants! Also Vee Wee is a top notch musician so you will often hear her playing her keyboard! Wow it’s such a great stream! Check it out today! http://twitch.tv/Livskis

http://twitch.tv/Livskis

Hello frands! Vee Wee here #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

I think it’s time that Anet removed this map! Who’s with me my frands!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

The true counter to Apex is team Carried By Vee Wee [JK]. Unfortunately certain people refused us entry into the tournament and so congratulations Apex for winning NA ToL! Hopefully the next ToL won’t be shoddily run!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

No need to derail the thread by talking about me! Let’s talk about the thuper awesome celestial rifle build! Wahoo!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

That celestial rifle build is my build and I am glad you picked it! With the Celestial Amulet you don’t have the burst of the full power build or the condition output of a full condi build! What you do have is really good sustained damage through hybrid power and condition damage! You can also stack a fair amount of might on yourself through Battle Sigil and Strength Runes! If you have a lot of might you can get a large burst on your target with this combo! Magnet > Prybar > Overcharged Shot > Throw Wrench > Net Shot > Grenade Barrage > Blunderbuss

If you want to see how I play it, head to http://www.twitch.tv/Livskis! I’ve been playing that build for a week now! Wahoo!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Adamantium.3682:

You would think the best Engineer on Earth would have some sort of strategy for fighting Necros besides just running away. They’re not impossible to kill, and if anyone can it would be you, right your highness?

/sarcasm

Hello frands! Vee Wee here #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Because of class design, not even Vee Wee #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80 can take on a competent condi Necromancer! They actually are impossible to kill! You have three options in a 1v1! The first option is to run! The second is to try to hold the point long enough for you to yell on teamspeak or type in all caps in chat for a teammate to come and help you. Assuming you have Gear Shield, Elixir S, and Supply Crate up, you have about 10 seconds before you die. The third option is to surrender to Anet’s balance and die.

Hope that helped! Wahoo! Bye frands!