Guild Wars 2

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

There are many tricks you can do against a condi Necro! Here are a list of tricks that I usually do! The first trick is simply to run! Necromancers do not have a lot of mobility and Engineers have permanent swiftness! Another cool trick is to drop Supply Crate! Supply Crate will stun and then immobilize them giving you ample time to run! It’s a great hit and run tactic but unfortunately it has a long cooldown! The next trick is to go invisible with Elixir S! Going invisible makes them unable to see you and therefore you’ll have an easier time running away! The most important trick is to just keep an eye on the minimap! If you see a moving skull icon that’s not your team’s color, try to keep away from it! Golly gee aren’t hard counters just dandy!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

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

Gadgeteer is an ok trait I suppose if it were Master Tier! The problem with Gadgeteer is that it buffs utilities that aren’t really that good! Gadgets! The only thing I can think of where it might work is a Rifle SD build and that build is pretty sub par! Even then I’d take Power Wrench over Gadgeteer any day!

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQFAUlsTptrNexkLseNSeBN6rkkND6BEgFIqAC-TJBFwACeAA02foaZAAXAAA

Wahoo! Bye frands!

puubd.7921:

new to the game still don’t understand any of the above comments for “how to get bomb kit.” that unlocking a skill tree or tier is complete bs, when there is NO way when adding skills to see what you need to unlock what you want. All i see from the above posts is that NONE of you know how to unlock a certain skill and many skill points are now wasted. Thanks for nothing guys.

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

I am sorry you are having difficulty with your skills! Golly gee willikers it sure was confusing for me when I first started! I will try to explain it for you!

Your first utility slot is unlocked at level 5! That’s also when you start getting skill points on level up! If you go to your Slot Skills window you’ll see 3 categories of skills that you can unlock! They are Healing, Utility, and Elite! For utility there are 3 lines of abilities to choose from! The utilities in the first line all cost 1 skill point each! The utilities in the second line cost 3 skill points each! And finally the utilities in the last line cost 5 skill points each! To unlock the second line, you need to unlock 5 utilities from the first line! To unlock the third line, you need to unlock 5 utilities from the second line!

To unlock a skill, make sure you have enough skill points and simply click on the ability you want to unlock! Then confirm your selection and voila! Then you’ll want to put whatever you just unlocked into your empty utility slot! If you have multiple abilities unlocked, you can swap between them! At level 10 you unlock your second utility slot, and at level 20 you unlock your third and final slot! I recommend getting Device or Weapon Kits first as they are basically extra weapons you can use and swap to with no cooldown as opposed to things like Gadgets or Elixirs which are a one time use with a long cooldown!

Bomb Kit is a tier 2 utility! If you want to unlock Bomb Kit, you’ll need to first unlock 5 skills from the first line of utilities! Then you can put 3 skill points into Bomb Kit and it will be unlocked! Wahoo!

Finally, Skill points are never truly wasted! You have infinite skill points as long as you keep leveling up! You will be able to unlock all of your abilities well before you reach level 80! Also, you can level up past 80! You won’t gain a level but you’ll gain a skill point! Skill points are used as currency at high levels!

I hope that helped my frand! Wahoo! Bye frands!

Forestnator.6298:

ArrDee.2573:

Hello frands! Vee Wee here #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80! I am posting from my frand’s account!

They are not that good because you can achieve 100% duration for all your condis through food buffs, giver weapons, nightmare runes, etc. That includes burning. They are a good choice, however, if you decide for whatever reason not to use food buffs.

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Wahoo what is your suggestion on runes and sigils ma frand?

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

Personally I use Adventurer Runes for condi roaming! I also think Noble, Nightmare, Scavenging, Antitoxin, and Perplexity are solid choices! I really dislike Undead and the condition duration runes are pointless in WvWvW because you can already achieve 100% condition duration! For Sigils I use Battle/Energy! If you take Invigorating Speed, you can substitute Energy for Geomancy, Generosity, Purity, Tormenting, Bursting, Corruption, Ice, or Leeching! I would only use Ice if you have 100% condition duration!

Hope that helped! Wahoo! Bye frands!

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

The first thing I noticed is that you have no dodges! It doesn’t matter how much defensive stats you have! If you don’t have dodges you will die! Take Invigorating Speed with 10 in Tools for Speedy Kits! Or grab an Energy Sigil! You also don’t have a stunbreak! This makes you very vulnerable to focus fire and/or chain CCs! Maybe you could swap Rocket Boots for Elixir S or Elixir Gun or even Slick Shoes for the stun break!

As for being powerful, try using Celestial Amulet instead of Soldier! I use this build and it’s both tanky and powerful!

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQFAUlUUp+qlcxELseNCbBNqxI6N2xq85DEgkC-TJxHwADeAAa2fAwFAoYZAA
or
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fdAQFAUlUUp+qlcxELseRCbBNqxAqNIyNWlPfgAkUA-TJxHwADeAAa2fAwFAoYZAA

Hope that helped! Wahoo! Bye frands!

ghost.3208:

Suggestion – Fish up your thoughts about why it should be added and then come back.

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

Any addition to the game that will make people happy that doesn’t have any downsides is a good addition to the game! There could be new cooking recipes using fish! You could have a chance to fish up some salvageable items! Players will spend money on an Orichalcum Fishing Pole from the NPC! Arenanet could make money on an unlimited use fishing pole through the gem store!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

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

Now that the PvP side of GW2 has been successfully merged with the outside world, Vee Wee, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80, thinks it’s time to allow the use of all items in the Heart of the Mists! Quaggan Tonics, Choir Bells, and the like should be allowed inside! If you agree leave a reply! If you don’t agree well you’re wrong! But I guess you can leave a reply too!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

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

Some of these responses are great! Thanks for agreeing! Some of these other responses are just spooky scary! Someone’s solution for too much ascended gear is to not do Fractals! That’s just the kookiest idea I’ve ever heard! And someone else commented on my English skills! My English is the thuperest even though that has nothing to do with salvaging ascended gear you thilly bear you! Stay on topic!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

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

I think the obvious solution is to remove Skyhammer from Solo Arena! Who’s with me!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

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

If you can’t take mean people saying mean things to you then the Internet is not the place for you my frand! The correct response to madtyping is to laugh and make them even more mad! If you start crying, they win!

The best way to make someone on the opposite team really upset is to spawn camp them! Try it then laugh at their rage! Unfortunately for a rager on your own team your only weapon is text! Try to make them type during combat so they die! When they do you can quip something like, “Get good, son!” or “lol uded”! Watch the rage ensue! Hilarity for weeks!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

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

Score means nothing my frands! All this suggestion will do is promote bad play! We’ll see things like multiple people capping points to get a higher score for better rewards! That just won’t do! If you want rewards, then try your hardest to win!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

bethekey.8314:

ellesee.8297

static discharge is not op. it’s far from op. in fact it’s not even that good of a build. i am unsure why when newbies ask for power builds people flock to recommend SD. and they don’t even recommend the good variant of SD builds. they recommend rifle SD with tool kit as the only kit lol. godkitten it stop.

I mess around with SD in hotjoins for fun. It is simple to play and the fights are straightforward, making it a decent build for new engineers who need to learn one thing at a time. Throwing a three kit build on a new engineer only serves to overwhelm and discourage them when they never have success with it. At least with SD, you have a chance against a better player if you catch them in a lucky burst.

I would also like to know why you think toolkit-only SD builds are not good for the purpose of the build. Apparently, I have been playing it wrong.

Hello frands! Vee Wee here #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80! I am posting from my frand’s account!

If Tool Kit is your only kit, what are you going to do after you do your burst! Spam rifle auto attacks! That’s just thilly! If you’re not running an offensive kit, obviously your offensive capabilities are extremely limited! You’ll basically be a pre patch Fresh Air Ele but without the damage and without the survivability! It’s just not a good build! If you really want to go SD, take the Grenade Kit and go 30/0/0/10/30! With the Grenade Kit, you’ll have more burst with Grenade Barrage! You’ll have more survivability through blind and chill! You’ll have more aoe! You’ll have poison to deal with bunkers and Warriors and even Warrior bunkers! You’ll have more sustained damage! You can stack might with Enhance Performance, Battle Sigil, and Strength Runes! It’s just the better choice!

Hope that helped! Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80! I am posting from my frand’s account!

They are not that good because you can achieve 100% duration for all your condis through food buffs, giver weapons, nightmare runes, etc. That includes burning. They are a good choice, however, if you decide for whatever reason not to use food buffs.

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Sigil of Demon Summoning loses all charges when I swap kits on my engineer. Did not test with other classes.

so i was playing against this ft engi and i was like ok ft engi? easy kill. so we start fighting. he pulls out his FT and ONE SHOTS ME. i check the logs, 140K FLAME JET WTF.

so i whisper him how he did that kind of hack damage. he told me to do things that i won’t mention in this thread because i don’t want ft engis running rampant in arenas. anyway i did what he said and tested it on a golem. WHAT THE HELL?!

i’d rather see mortar as a kit that functioned similar to guardian tomes.

i never really cared for meta builds. personally i like supporting the party so i run a might stacking build in fractals 49/50
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vIAQNAncTj8cU7ZnHWeQHaAw8YogKSpYO3SKQjMA-zACBYfCikFQUGAUBgZmFRjtypIas6aYKXER1kCochRA-e
if there’s another warrior running empower then i’ll take out 10 in tactics and put it into discipline for heightened focus. if i’m the only warrior i’ll probably run double banners.

also lol @ pve elitism. pve is easy as kitten. you could run a cleric condi necro and still win. get over yourselves.

if you have burning other than incendiary powder (rocket boots, bomb kit, flamethrower, etc.) use p/s
if incendiary powder is your only source of burning, use p/p.
if power use rifle

Hello frands! Vee Wee here #1 engi NA and world first rank 80! I am posting from my frand’s account!

Great tips my frands! Thanks for your input!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80! I am posting on my frand’s account!

The PvP community is TINY! If you want it to grow, it needs new people. New people are bad. But they will get better. They’ll probably be better than you very soon!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

if you took 42k burning damage froim that engi, and burning only does like ~700 per tick, and engi has additional bleeds, poison, confusion, and physical damage, you must’ve survived against that op condi engi for like at least 5 minutes. nerf eles.

Hello frands! Vee Wee here #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80! I am posting from my frand’s account!

You are right my frand Pollution in that they removed the even playing field! However I haven’t used any of the new sigils or runes yet because they are not that good and I’ve only unlocked one new trait that I won’t unlock on any other character that I have! Just because it’s locked doesn’t mean you absolutely have to unlock it!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

If your teammate is downed, revive him immediately! A death in a teamfight usually means the fight is lost! Make sure none of your allies die! If you have any cc, interrupt the stompers! Try to cure Poison on your downed ally! You’ll revive him faster! Not everyone can be saved however! If you are playing a fragile class like Thief or Ele and the opposing team is coordinating cleave, it’s best not to revive! You might join your ally in the downed state! If you are downed yourself and you have an Engineer, Mesmer, or Thief ally, try not to auto attack! Engineers, Mesmers, and Thieves can stealth you! Going into stealth while downed prevents getting stomped out and obviously auto attacking breaks stealth!

Don’t try to res by yourself! If you’re off the point sometimes people won’t kill you! Instead they will just prevent you from reviving so you slowly bleed out! This is because when you die you will get a 15 second respawn timer! If they can take you out of the game for a longer period of time, they will do it! If you’re down and that person leaves, still don’t attempt to revive! They probably still have you targeted to see if you will make that rookie mistake! You can also do this to other people! If an opposing player is down and not a threat, let them bleed out! You’ll take them out of the game for even longer than the respawn time! Watch out for Thieves and Elementalists though! They can still move while in downstate and can get onto a point and neut it while they’re down! And this tactic is ineffective against Rangers because they can revive from the downstate very quickly!

It’s OK to run! If you’re at mid, for example, and your team is about to lose the teamfight, it’s ok to run away! Go back to your home point or maybe go far for a quick neut if nobody’s guarding it! Regroup and attack again! Running away is better than dying for a 15 second respawn and 5 freebie points for the opposing team! Often times in low rated games I’ll see just people heading into mid alone against 3 people by themselves! Guild Wars 2 is a team game! Unless you are just godlike at this game, being outnumbered is very, very bad!

Watch your points! If you have a pouint, it’s generally a good idea to keep that point! This doesn’t mean idle on a point for the entire game! You’re not helping anyone there! For example, if you’re defending home, head to mid if they need help! But always keep an eye on home! On maps like Foefire or Khylo, you don’t have to go all the way to mid to help! You can just fight on the outskirts while at the same time keep a clear visual of your home point! If you don’t know where the other team’s backcapper is (usually a thief) chances are he’s going for your home point! This goes back to my previous tip of keep track of your enemy’s whereabouts!

Play different classes! Knowledge is power frands! You can create a new character and immediately start PvPing on a somewhat equal level as everyone else! If you don’t know what other classes do, then how can you expect to beat them! If you want to get better quick, play other classes!

Well that’s it for now my frands! I am sure some people will post their own helpful hints that I forgot! I am thuper happy the PvP community is growing! All the matchmaking issues that people have stems from the PvP community being so tiny! As these newcomers get better, maybe PvP will prosper with the extra population! #optimism

Wahoo! Bye frands!

Hello frands! Vee Wee here #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80! I am posting from my frand’s account!

Are you a PvE, WvW, or just a new player wanting to try out PvP? Well you are probably bad! But it’s ok because everybody was bad when they first started playing PvP! People will let you know you’re bad! Ignore those people! Those guys are silly anyway and probably not much better themselves! That’s probably the most important rule for anyone coming into PvP! Have thick skin! People are unfrandly on the internet!

Okay frands! First thing’s first! If you are new to PvP, first check out this thread made by Grouch! https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/New-to-PvP-Start-here/

What that thread doesn’t tell you though are some tips on how to play when you get into a game! These are some basic tips that apply to all classes! For class specific information, check out the builds in Grouch’s thread or visit your class appropriate forum! Wahoo! Here we go!

—TIPS START HERE—

Don’t double dodge, meaning don’t dodge then immediately dodge again! Dodging is a huge part of how you stay alive in this game! If you blow both your dodges, you’ll be extremely weak to the incoming burst that will most definitely come! Obviously there are exceptions to this rule that are situational but generally you don’t want to double dodge! What many good PvPers do is to include the Vigor boon and/or Sigil of Energy into their builds! Having more dodges greatly improves your chance of survival!

You only need one person to cap a point! Having more than one person cap a point doesn’t make it cap any faster! If you stay to cap a point while someone else is already capping it, you are effectively giving the opposing team a numbers advantage in a team fight that is happening elsewhere on the map! By the time you cap the point and run to that fight, it could be already lost!

Your score does not matter! As long as you have 5 points, you will gain rank, and you will gain the same amount of rank as someone who has 500 points! It’s extremely, very, super dee duper rare to end a game with 0 points! Don’t sabotage your team just to gain points! Just because a person has the highest score doesn’t mean he’s the best! If someone has the lowest score it doesn’t mean he’s bad! Often the low scoring people contribute most to the team because they are constantly roaming!

Be aware of the opposing team’s whereabouts! If, for example, all 5 players on the opposing team are at mid, then their home point is empty! Someone, generally a high mobility class like Thief, should go neut or even cap that point! If you don’t, then they are just getting free points! If there is a teamfight happening elsewhere though, don’t full cap it! Neut the point and head back to the team fight! If you spend time to full cap the point, your team could very well lose a teamfight elsewhere on the map and your team will lose that point! Then as your team is respawning they’ll just go easily reclaim the point you just took and you probably won’t be able to stop them! You’ll lose more than you gain! A lot more!

If you are teamfighting, always have someone on the point! Usually this role falls to the bunker as the bunker is extremely tanky and can take quite a few hits! You only need one person on the point to contest it! You cannot contest a point if you are stealth or invulnerable (Elixir S, Mist Form, Renewed Focus)! If the opposing team captures a point, it can be extremely difficult to reclaim it! If they manage to get a decap, you lose all those free points! Make sure these things don’t happen!

If an opposing team member goes down, focus that person! Cleave him down! If you have the Poison condition, use it on the downed person! Poison reduces healing by 33% which includes attempted teammate revivals! If you have any kind of cc, use it on the people trying to resuscitate the downed player! Do not let him get back up! If you have Stability, try to stomp them out! You only need one person to stomp! If multiple people stomp, that’s just less cleave being put out and the downed person has a higher chance of being revived!

There are some neat tricks you can do while stomping! Stability will usually guarantee a stomp on certain classes! If you have any instant cast Blind skills (Smoke Vent, Blinding Flash), you can use those skills as you are stomping to blind their interrupt skill! The same thing applies to Aegis! You can block their interrupt skill! It’s very important to watch for animations so you don’t waste these abilities! You can also cancel your stomp and dodge the interrupt! Every class’s downstate interrupt skill has a very obvious animation! Watch for these before you Blind, Aegis, or dodge! If you can go invisible, you can stomp while stealthed!

—CONTINUED—

power pve/wvw
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power pvp
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vcAQFAUlUUp6q1XxELseNiMqQnJ6xjRZT2nHvVbBhA-TkAg0CnIyRljLHTOycs5MEB
condi pve/wvw
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vcAQJAqalUUp6q1XxELseNiMqQnJ6xjRZT2nHvFbBhA-z0BB4iBk+AkEBITtIasVhFRjVdDTHjIqGA-w
condi pvp
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Hello frands! Vee Wee here #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80! I am posting from my frand’s account!

Thanks for the feedback my frands! I’m glad some of you played and enjoyed the build and I’m glad you modified it to your own personal tastes! Wahoo!

Anyway I’d like to throw Elixir Gun in there there as a possible alternative to Tool Kit! Focusing someone with weakness while your grenades are on cooldown is a great way to get a kill (since weakness halves endurance regeneration if you didn’t know), especially since the influx of rookie PvE players into PvP! The amount of double dodges I see is just thilly! And Elixir Gun has a stun break! The trade off is you’ll get wrecked by immobilize since you don’t have the thuper strong Tool Kit block!

And I’d also like to throw in Thumper Turret as another alternative to Tool Kit! This was Chaith’s idea and it works really well! Thanks Chaith, also #1 Engi NA! Thumper Turret has a long cooldown, but while it’s up you have 40% Protection up time! Thumper Turret also has more CC when you overcharge and provides a stun break! A notable thing I did today was place flame turret at the gate entrance on Skyhammer! Then I placed a Thumper Turret and Healing Turret in a path to the drop! Someone came in and I chain detonated turrets and watched him fall down to his death! It was the greatest thing ever! What a shame I didn’t get on stream my frands, which you can find here @ http://twitch.tv/Livskis!

Leave more feedback here my frands! Wahoo! Bye!

psizone.8437:

Evan Lesh.3295:

This is getting hotfixed today.

Hold up, thieves can spam backstab and heartseeker for 5k+ on full toughness opponents but the second a ranger pet does decent damage you guys nerf it in a heartbeat?

That’s low, dude – why not just buff the rest of our pets to that damage, I run spiders if you fancy tinkering with the damage rates a bit

drakes did 40k damage tail spins. your turn

tdm is fine. it doesn’t work when it’s 10v10 on a tiny kitten map obviously.
also lol @ tourney games played.

i just hit a golem for 10 crits. all of them proc’d incendiary powder. either i’m really lucky or it’s still 100%

edit: 10 more times and all of them proc’d incendiary powder.

i know a bunch of pre patch rank 70s who have legendaries just sayin

Hello frands! Vee Wee here #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80! I am posting from my frand’s account!

I’d like to share with you a build I’ve been testing with pretty good results though I will admit I haven’t really played against a quality team yet in queues! Also gw2skills.net isn’t updated so you’ll have to use some imagination! Here is the build my frands!

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vcAQJAqelUUpqqlcxELseNiMqQnJ6h+ZZAwnH0FbBhA-ToAAzCpIkRJjTGjMSZsyM+YKC (The empty slot in alchemy is for Experimental Turrets!)

Now the obvious thing you’ll notice is that the build doesn’t have a stunbreaker! That’s probably the biggest flaw but with the hambow nerf in addition to this build being tankier than the standard condi engi builds, I think it will be ok!

This build has a lot of CC! It has two turret knockbacks along with shield knockback and stun as well as Magnet from tool kit! And that’s not even counting Supply Crate turret destruction knockbacks! That’s a lot of CC my frands! The build is also able to stack a lot of might! First you have Sigil of Battle! Then placing Flame Turret grants 3 stacks of might from the new trait, Experimental Turrets! You also have 3 blast finishers and a fire field though obviously those are quite situational!

Feedback of all kinds will be great! Leave them here! Wahoo! Bye frands!

why would you solo queue anyway? that disgusting map called skyhammer is in solo queue.

for a second i thought you meant the auto attack never ends and it’s just a continuous stream of fire. my hopes were shattered.

arah’s already unlocked.

if you’re playing wvw, nightmare, perplexity, antitoxin, noble, adventurer, krait, scavenger are all good
if you’re playing pvp then balthazar.

because anyone who’s good at the game is happy about that nerf.

at 1500 range ranger arrows are as easily dodged as engineer grenades.

they should just remove immob stacking.

the SD rifle build uses the rifle’s hard hitting and control abilities along with quick, fast recharging tool belt abilities to proc static discharge and burst your target down quickly.

with that being said rifle SD and hgh grenades are both low-mediocre builds in the current meta in terms of effectiveness. if you want to run a glassy SD build, run grenade SD. it has more survivability, more control, more sustained damage, and most important, waaay more burst.

lmperdigao.2567:

Well, for mesmers and elementalists, theres a limit called huge cooldown. Seems totally fair to me.

sorry i worded it poorly. i don’t think blinks/shadowsteps are overpowered. i think blinking through solid concrete walls or through roofs is overpowered. blinking up the side of the clock tower i am not a fan of but at least that’s reasonable. a thief standing at the base of the clock tower and using shadow shot to instantly get on point i think is dumb.

anyone else find these skills to be extremely overpowered? i get it, it’s mobility for certain classes but the ability to blink through walls or ceilings is just stupid. take khylo for example. you’re fighting in the clock tower and you can just blink through the ceiling to reset everything. anyone else think there should be a limit on blinks and shadowsteps?

if your goal was to get the highest condi dmg possible then congrats
now if you want to be actually useful you’ll probably get like incendiary powder and even all the way into explosives for grenade kit. otherwise you’ll be really lacking in the bleeds department and you won’t have any condi duration. as it stands now you’ll probably get like 1k dps from burning, and maybe 500 dps from bleeds at best with like 1k extra dps from poison confusion and physical damage. that’s pretty low and it’s assuming that nobody else in your party has any sort of conditions whatsoever which is never the case.

if you’re running bombs use forceful explosions. if just grenades use shrapnel. reasons are quite obvious.

always hair trigger over rifled barrels. the range is pointless. poison dart volley actually gets worse the farther you are from the target.

if you run energy sigil take proection injection + backpack regen
if you run something else like leeching or battle or whatever, take invigorating speed. never take blood injection.

there are pvp traits and there are pve traits. backpack regen doesn’t see any use outside pvp and wvwvw. does that mean it’s a weak trait? lol no. automated response was stupid. 100% immunity traits are bad design. they need to go away.

Allie Murdock.8152:

I’m just asking you guys to be open to it. If this goes out and it didn’t work out as we had planned, then we are open to change too.

open to change after 6 months. everyone here knows when anet messes up and puts something terrible into the game, it won’t get fixed for who knows how long. decap engi and hambows have been in the game for how many months now? it’s only now getting any sort of change. that is sad. if this change goes through and it turns out to be horrible like we expect, it won’t change. it will never change.

you can literally use any build in pve. everything is viable. if you like ft/eg, this is my ft/eg build that i run in fractals 50
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vcAQJAqelUUpCrtbxWLseNiM+QnB6RddXjoYG5XjB-zwBBYfBkEBgKAMzsIasVOFRjVXDT5iIqGA-e

if you’re condi hgh, you should be using noble runes anyway instead of 3 20% sets. and if you’re playing condi hgh in pvp they’re adding noble to pvp. critical damage doesn’t really matter if you’re a condi build, and no other class can swap from corruption to bursting, not just the engineer. what is the problem exactly?

overcharged shot is a blowout. you use knockback on yourself. i don’t know if this will proc the trait. and you forgot throw mine, which in addition to accelerant packed turrets, are the only explosives that benefit from this 30 point explosives trait.

i think the dev team needs more input from high level pvpers. stop this community collaboration. i don’t want some random guy contributing to a balance discussion by saying HEARTSEEKER OVERPOWERED. i think if they listened to people who play at the highest level and maybe create an invite only test server to test new changes so garbage like diamond skin and berserker stance and healing signet don’t make it to the live servers the game would improve in a month. the people who still play gw2 pvp competitively obviously love the game and i am sure they would happily volunteer their input if anet would only listen.