Guild Wars 2

meh.. next time i want a long open, slightly frayed mane with center parting that covers both eyes for both genders

hggt.7260:

Everyone has trench coats, along with Magitech. This is my solution.

thats also a coat… just sayin. Still looks good though lol

@ Zacchary. I totally disagree with the engi elite. I got something way better for that.

Condimancer supply crate: Works like the supply crate but instead of turrets you get 6 lvl 85 condimancer npcs with 40k health that are hostile to the engineer. If you deploy the crate you apply 10 daze on yourself.

get the fires of balthasar backpiece from pvp, that thing gives off a light

Grimwolf.7163:

Still not interested?
Use offer code FUGLY when you call to receive the ability to transform YOURSELF into a giant hobosack, and be worn around the ruins of Lion’s Arch by an actual hobo!
“Live” as a god, knowing that you will outlast the universe itself!

Now thats a bargain Grimwolf! Lets sum all up for our undecided customers!

-Hobosacks for all kits that dont assist the enemie at all to see what weapon you use.
- 100% guaranteed to clash with all your armor colours and designs
- 100% guaranteed to clip with asura heads, human heads AND existing backpieces

but we are not done yet… are we Grimwolf?

- Unable to hide it EVER!
- Completely unable to holster any kit related weapons!
- Completely mood draining to never see your actual weapon!
- Got a legendary? Dont worry our hobosack gets rid of it right away!
- Ever worried about colouring it to fit your armor? Well no more! Hobosacks come in
putrid brown only!

wow now thats what i call amazing! Order yours today and you will start to hate your engineer´s visuals even if you adore the class!

Arantheal.7396:

Next weeks special:
Hobosacks for Charrzookas
“How could players tell otherwise?”

and if you call right away we also throw in pistol and rifle hobosacks for free

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

Aedelric.1287:

Plot twist, Trahearne is the heir!

-Spits out food-

-got a mental image he really doesnt want to have-

EdwinLi.1284:

Basaltface.2786:

from my point of view they look like broken off rocks roughly shaped like weapons… not a fan of the colour theme and the “crude” design… but then again thats just my opinion.

Well it could work if you’re going for that Magic using Engineer look.

meh.. to me they look like rocks with some magic and thats it. Who likes it.. all hail to you. I bought some of the skins with tickets that piled up and sold em on the TP.. im 200g richer and somebody else is happy with them so all win. I hope next weapon sets go into “slickpack” like designs… some poison green, alchemy and technology and some gears.. ya know

the new female hairdos are amazing fortunally..

this hairdo is the best thing that ever happened to us charr since…ever? Actually all the new hairdos are amazing.

Trixie.7614:

Our character is secretly the new Scarlet now.

i better hope so. Bout time we get to play arround with all her science and kitten

doesnt matter if the corpse is cold or not.. sword.. NOAW!

from my point of view they look like broken off rocks roughly shaped like weapons… not a fan of the colour theme and the “crude” design… but then again thats just my opinion.

Mayonnaise.9624:

Another patch another fail

i think i slowly can make bets before every patch that put me in greater misery after each one… maybe a A-net will react to stupidity. Lets see… i got one of these electro shocking dog collars with adjustable setting. From next patch on ill simply add 5 (whatever the scale on that thing is) to it and keep adding them for every “no hobosack fix patch” and if they eventually fix the things ill put it on, make a youtube clip and post it on the forums. Save to say i prolly will never need to do that.. but hey im also not backing off if really a miracle happens.

Ohoni.6057:

ahhh.. thats the game we play here, gotcha. Then i as charr player want to have a fraction of the selection of decent armor pieces you got, etc.

I don’t know why you’re taking an oppositional tone. I have characters of all races and genders, including a Charr female (my two mains are Asura). I wish that some human female outfits were better translated into Charr female, but I get why they weren’t. They could at least do a better job of allowing horns and ears to just clip out of the sides of helmets though. Still, more skirts would benefit at least three different races, rather than just one.

Anyways, I don’t think we’ll see too much race specific gear in future, all I’m saying is, the gear we do get in future should involve less steampunk/techy type stuff, since we’ve already been given a ton of that, and more traditional fantasy and/or casual type stuff, more standard armor and clothing options, or backpieces and helms that would be more appropriate on non-engis.

How are the monocle, adventurer’s headpieces, gas mask, and rucksack steampunk?

Let’s not get into semantics.

How much “non steampunkish” stuff do you want? Wasnt the recent crown pavilion weapon skins and shadow of lyssa anywhere near steampunk? How about the zephite rewards that you could PICK from a good selection starting from dragon horns to an organic tentacle backpiece. If you compare the ration between steampunkish and non steampunkish quest rewards\recently added stuff\stuff in general its like 20\80 if even that. There are 4 clearly steampunkish armors in the game, the magitech medium armor and aetherblade light-medium-heavy and all are gem store items that if people want to have em either grind a fortune of gold to convert into gems or buy em via real life money. There are 5 clearly steampunkish\magitech backpieces in the game beeing the slickpack, the injector, the spinal blades (in all its forms i count that as one since you make it from one “base”), the molten jetpack and the starter backpack for engineers… if you really wanna stretch the last two as steampunk. As for weapons there are the charr cultural kitten and t3 you can easily get, the whisper weapons and here and there some rifle that got a tone of steampunk to it AND then we got the aetherblade skins who cost a fortune of tickets atm. Also 4 different monocle type helmets for medium armor (if you count the starter monocle for engineer). Then the asura cultural weapon sets and armors, i wont mention the charr ones cause they are nothing even close to steampunk. Dungeon armors.. you got the blacksmith set from the embrace of sorrow and if you wanna stretch it you got the inquest armors from the crucible. Now tell me how many “non steampunkish-magitech-technological” weapons, armor skins and backpieces are in the game-where recently added. Flamekissed armor, zodiac armors, toxic gloves\shoulders, the 3 recently added armor sets and these gloves, boots and horned helm (forgot the names of these sets), even a kittening ninja outfit, phoenix weapons, tormented weapons, dragon jade weapons, heck even the boss rewards from the 3 wurm boss are magical looking and the rifle is a living worm thingy aswell, the sunless skins, the legendaries (predator really goes more towards magic in my eyes) and and and.. needless to say if you want a non steampunkish thing going on for your char you got it a HELL of a lot easier and pay less(or more..if you go for certain things but then again.. look at the price of a molten jetpack). And i take that tone cause you complain about the few nice things people get that WANT that steampunkish feel for their chars and embrace the advance of tyria while they struggle to get em while anything else is pretty much there in masses. And why should only one gender of 3 races benefit? Just because?

Penguin.5197:

I think tool kit aa is pretty hilarious against a necro or ranger when you got power wrench on. I’ve had them try to bunny hop away from the perma cripple its lol worthy. Otherwise it makes a horrible melee weapon, but still a good utility kit

Yea its the “horrible melee weapon” part that personally makes me avoid the kit most of the time. I will not lie that “the mighty gear shield of infinite nope©” makes my life a LOT easier for certain PVE related situations, also the magnet is really nice to have arround to get a certain foe out of a mob but yea… bout time to have a proper melee weapon to open up new builds and playstyles for the class lol

Bolbo Baggins.8594:

Unless Scarlett is a cylon and has a ressurection ship floating around the planet of tyria uploading her consciousness to a new body i dont think its gonna happen :-)

for some reason i just had a darth vader flashback…

Ohoni.6057:

There are a ton of short skirts, and long coats, and dresses.

I’d actually like to see more short skirts. The only light skirt I know of is the one your start with, and that one’s a bit too short really. There are others, but they all come with leggings or something going on with the lower legs that limit boot choices. There are also a ton of those “open in the front” skirts like the Masquerade one. They just need some decent, mid-thigh skirts with nothing below the hem line.

Not sure if you got the note.. but tyria sorta kinda..how to say.. “more advanced” then it was in gw1. Technology rivals magic or even get mixed with it (all the asura thingies).

And I don’t have a problem with that, some steampunk content is perfectly fine, I just think that it’s made up the majority of post-release armor drops/rewards, and they need to balance it out a bit more.

And to the OP, more variation would be great,but also, how’s the Zephyr Rucksack steampunk themed…?!!

It’s not super-steampunky, but I really don’t see it fitting on any of my characters but the engi, and he already has a Spinal Blades pack.

ahhh.. thats the game we play here, gotcha. Then i as charr player want to have a fraction of the selection of decent armor pieces you got, the same quality of textures you got for your armors and clothes AND no stretching and bottoms who take the tail in account, no floating shoulders and backpieces (like pretty much EVERYTHING even a quiver that was designed for a charr..uuh.. char) and atleast a few decent looking helmets that are not cultural helmets that dont take my horns and mane away and leave the entire neck naked or are stretched and deformed beyond good and evil. (like scarlets veil that looks perfect on your char if you wear that also non steampunk quest reward). And also look into the asura playerbase..they get exactly the same shaft here only nearly not as bad as charr.

Sorry if i gotta say.. but you kinda act like a spoiled brat who cant be pleased..and dont come with the " i buy gems so i deserve moar" (if you do) cause i do that too and dumped about 900 dollars into the game since i play it (and i dont plan to stop if they keep giving me nice things) and you complain about skirts that arent to your personal preferences… seriosly get real. Really sorry but i had to get that out of my system.

ThiBash.5634:

Xyonon.3987:

I’d like to be able to use a mace tbh. I want to use the “Fix Upper”, a mace clearly made for engineers

Isn’t that the same weapon as the auto attack weapon from the tool kit?

yea is. But there are ppl who dont like the toolkit (me included)

KarateKid.5648:

Bonus anet points if they let us build with bloodstone bricks (someone else’s idea- I just re-mention it here)

you can have my 3 stacks of bloodstone bricks for that anytime..

Not sure if you got the note.. but tyria sorta kinda..how to say.. “more advanced” then it was in gw1. Technology rivals magic or even get mixed with it (all the asura thingies). You see tanks, turrets, cannons, freaking airships, all the charr contraptions.. heck even silenced firearms (if you look at the whisper weapons) you yourself are able to use pistols and rifles aswell bombs, grenades, flamethrowers, mortars and other contraptions if you play the engineer, then we got clockwork knights.. and scarlets stuff what even pushed it further, the steam creatures (that are prolly also scarlets work), the dredge technology that even expands to exo suits and sonic technology (that look like they are not powered or based on magic).. i mean it kinda goes without saying that steampunk and technomancy is a mayor part of tyria and tyria wouldnt be where it is right now without the said technology.. heck even the shared language was only possible cause of charr technology printing presses to spread it and charr even got record players (that are used to annoy female devourers to get them away from their nests to gather eggs, look at the devourer pen near the black citadel if you dont belive me) . And im personally glad we get steampunkish things cause these things atleast make it able to make engineers actually look like they know what they do…not like dudes with coats and hobosacks. Though…op is right, there should be more cosmetics for other classes, in fact there should be class based cultural armor sets in general …but then again its MUCH easier to get nice cosmetics fitting for other classes then it is for engineer (cept you are still not tired of the vortex of coats).

loneknight.8425:

Beldin.5498:

Or make him a Charr and call him Tybalt .. in that case he can return

Best suggestion ever! Lightbringer approves!!

Looking at how AN ‘improves’ Canach look, I’m sure they will do a facelift for Traherne. Maybe a new gems only leafy armor skin will launch together with his intro into LS season 2 :/

Imagine tybalt coming back alla star wars ghost…with robes and stuff and just smiling silently while polishing a ghost apple at the victory after season 2. If that would happen then LS would be 100/10.

(and yea im random but i love tybalt and they shouldnt had killed him off at any costs, still mad about that. To honour him i even transmuted my predator back to the hunter)

ITheNormalPerson.9275:

Ermm…

what they said.

I’m honestly not sure if this is a well made troll post, or a serious suggestion..

i go for serios suggestion but op went full kitten

Its in my opinion about time to add more stuff to the game. New weapon types or assignable skills for the weapon you carry, spreading existing weapons to more classes, and new skills in general AND proper balancing. Yea much asked but i personally get sick and tired to NEED to run very specific builds to do stuff. To experiment arround is almost a sin these days. Run a darn meta build and DONT you dare to not go zerk (if you pve) and if only a SINGLE point of dps is missing you are not usefull\wanted\allowed to even breathe and thats about it. As for pvp i cant talk much as a “scrub” who dares to dont run a meta build. Seriosly.. balancing should be priority, balancing and making ALL skills and weapons equally viable for each class, same for skills, runes, sigils so that people are allowed to play how they want and make up their own creative builds to tackle situations their very own way without getting ridiculed. Also enemies should get get abilities that stuff like full healer and support builds are needed to even do defeat them proper.
But yea thats just the opinion of a “scrub”.. nothing more

whatever happens next patch.. im certain we all will get evil dead flashbacks

johnpoc.8732:

I’d rather have them fix static discharge hitting the floor when using AoE belt skills

how about we meet in the middle and fix the entire class from visuals to skills and make ALL skills\kits viable and usefull aswell the engineer´s visuals pretty?

maybe he just had a rifle with a rifle with a bayonet…lol

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Basaltface.2786:

stewy.1379:

they should just make horrik’s cannon a weapon.

rather a kit

Elite kit?

Wouldnt be even needed. I made that one up for a different topic related to the cannon too.. think about something like this here.

1- Ranged auto attack with 1s cooldown, heavy impact damage with some aoe radius ( sorta like pistol 1 just way more powerfull, actually on par with the bomb kit´s 1) and a range of 1000

2- A straight path following slow moving projectile that hurts everything in its path (think asura megablasters from the crucible of eternity dungeon just not homing) per tick and can be detonated like flamer 2 but keeps on following its path slowly till it hits a wall or its 1200 range limit

3- A frontal knockback cleave or conic aoe with the cannon to get up to 3 annoying pests off your kitten .

4- a backwards cannon jump with some low to mediocre aoe damage from the jump itself (think acid bomb just no ticks) that leaves a 2-3 s combo field behind, blind would be pretty perfect for that

5- High damage ground targeted rather big aoe with fire field

toolbelt skill- adds confuse to the next 3 attacks with it

Im pretty sure that would be a good alternative to nades for ranged combat in my opinion

stewy.1379:

they should just make horrik’s cannon a weapon.

rather a kit

Dustfinger.9510:

Basaltface.2786:

Dustfinger.9510:

Zach.3264:

Snipers are meant to be stealthy. Having a large Panther/Wolf etc wouldn’t exactly aid you in being stealth-like.

Panthers can be pretty stealthy. <.<

and slap a ninja headband on a bear and its a ninja too XD Sry couldnt resist

Ever seen a ninja bear? Exactly! They’re almost over qualified.

(in all seriousness though, bears are ambush predators :P)

Dustfinger.9510:

Zach.3264:

Snipers are meant to be stealthy. Having a large Panther/Wolf etc wouldn’t exactly aid you in being stealth-like.

Panthers can be pretty stealthy. <.<

and slap a ninja headband on a bear and its a ninja too XD Sry couldnt resist

shade.5934:

Wee engineer and completely new player here chiming in to say…character customization is amazing! As is gear customization. I was amazed to find that with armor dyes, ever the lowest of gear could look great and thematic.

Engineer backpacks, however, are a letdown. Can we at least armor dye them? Even just a little?

Everyone seems to have these out of place plushy backpacks clinging to them now. I’m fine with that and still happy to throw money at you…could we get a few more options for engineer backpacks please? Or even just different colors (are there colors and I’m missing them? Apologies if I’m missing something.)

nope you dont miss anything here.. these ugly things are the bane of your apperance hence why we complain bout 1 and a half year already about this XD

Lishtenbird.2814:

skullmount.1758:

You would think that whatever Asura group that monitors the waypoints would be out there investigating the interferences…

Monitoring? My ears! Asuran inventions are flawless and need no monitoring! It will work even if a savage charr or a drunken norn tries to… wait, why is that thing smoki-

-cough cough- Thaumanova Reactor -cough cough-

Bombsaway.7198:

If anyone should snipe, it should be the ranger really.
If we got another kit, it would likely be more of a gadget kit IMHO.

yea bout time ranger gets a rifle, these guys are practically made for this kitten XD

tigirius.9014:

eXpire.7249:

Sent this issue into GW2 support, got told I should post it on the forums -.-
(I even included a link to this topic)

Perhaps they should change their support reply to tell people to pose to Reddit instead. I think it would actually work better than posting to the forums at this point don’t you?

This isn’t surprising that this is still going on, next week I’ll check back and yep, still won’t be fixed yet, how long has it been? Where are the folks who code the toggle checkbox in the settings ui?

I ask myself more who the people are who code the broken script that removes your existing backpiece and replaces it with the hobosack till you do the first attack…

Witaminka.4650:

we definitely need chicken gun kit

if i dont get a rubber chicken rifle and pistol skins with that then i dont want that kit

Wolf.5816:

Can’t argue with a cannon kit.

A sniper kit would be pretty interesting, although I’m not one to sit back and fire into the action.

Personally, I’d like to see the ever popular Chainsaw Kit!

Or perhaps a Demolition Kit, that employs sticky bombs, TNT and Dynamite!

The tool belt ability could be a themed Hard Hat that could give you protection for X seconds unless you are hit with a Crowd Control effect, then it should absorb the Crowd Control effect but cancel the protection boon Knocking the Hard Hat off of you.

But anything new would be welcomed really!

well.. sniper kit wouldnt be really good in my opinion. It just doesnt fit with the engi thing… BUT how about a sniper turret that works like the mortar? They are already in the game…look arround the far east of ascalon by the ogre camp. The ash legion got them deployed arround to use against ogres. These things got an insane range, a slow reload and do rather kitten damage, issue would be that ppl would exploit it.. but then again the sniper rifle turrets in game shoot slow enough to be dodgeable by just walking left to right, their reload time is long too. Im sure that could be worked into a sort of elite skill in my opinion or just a normal skill that can be deployed like a turret with the toolbelt skill to pick it up again if in close range or nuke it if you are away from it. Afterall you are not mobile with it and an easy target if you wanna use it in range of the enemie

As for the chainsaw kit? Yea.. i could see whatcha mean but then again why we dont simply get hammers as weapons and give em some cleave attacks? Should do the trick id say.

As for demolition kit… just bring the mine kit back, remove the knockback from the mines cept maybe #5 and done.

what i rather want to see is a “cannon kit”. Think about horrik from the fractals.

https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/126473/horrik.jpg

1- Ranged auto attack with 1s cooldown, heavy impact damage with some aoe radius ( sorta like pistol 1 just way more powerfull, actually on par with the bomb kit´s 1) and a range of 1000

2- A straight path following slow moving projectile that hurts everything in its path (think asura megablasters from the crucible of eternity dungeon just not homing) per tick and can be detonated like flamer 2 but keeps on following its path slowly till it hits a wall or its 1200 range limit

3- A frontal knockback cleave or conic aoe with the cannon to get up to 3 annoying pests off your kitten .

4- a backwards cannon jump with some low to mediocre aoe damage from the jump itself (think acid bomb just no ticks) that leaves a 2-3 s combo field behind, blind would be pretty perfect for that

5- High damage ground targeted rather big aoe with fire field

toolbelt skill- adds confuse to the next 3 attacks with it

I think that would be more fitting and usefull. That way you got a ranged kit that can do some serios abuse.. but yea.. just my opinion

eXpire.7249:

Sent this issue into GW2 support, got told I should post it on the forums -.-
(I even included a link to this topic)

lolwat? Seriosly now?

yea bring it back.. and while you are at it fix it for charr so that it doesnt float a meter behind them alright?

ArchonWing.9480:

Heh, I couldn’t but notice in the most recent Living Story

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The bad engineer guy was wearing a hobosack. Perhaps that’s why he went crazy?

can you blame him? Saw how that thing clashed with his leaf armor? Id be kittened too if i would be him

ukuni.8745:

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a topic stay on the front page anywhere as long as this one has

And even if its the last thing i do it stays on the frontpage till the darn issue is fixed…

Im all for buying stuff with gems and if something is on sale that fits my taste i gladly invest some of my money in gems and buy it…but since a while there seems to be a weird trend. Full armor look replacements. A-net.. do you plan on keeping this up and making it impossible to mix the new parts with your “old” parts or are these recent additions to the gem store just pure coincidence? Dont get me wrong, the ninja set you just put up looks epic and is very well made but since you cant mix it or even colour individual parts how are people suposed to make unique looks with it? Maybe somebody doesnt like the gloves or boots and wants to add some other ones.. or maybe somebody justs wants 1 part alltogether of the outfit and buys the armor to get that part. And whats the point of the wardrobe system if you dont keep adding new parts to it? Just askin.. really seems to be a weird choice of design to me thats all.

Orangensaft.7139:

im 99% sure that this isnt the tail of modremoth

how would that work if every glowing vine is a part of modremoth

before you even enter Dry Top there is an ultra bright glowing vine… that would have to be part of him too according to your logic… modremoth would have some strange body then…

lemme refer you to the bodyshape of zhaitan… that thing is\was a mass of tails, heads and wings twisted together to a chutulu esque nightmare aswell so it wouldnt be too far fetched.. and we are talking about a dragon that prolly is made of plants so yea.. it wouldnt be impossible. Though.. if that would be actually a part of him i would really REALLY worry about the size of that beast.

Malcastus.6240:

Through months of research I finally got a hold of evidence, showing us that Anet has decided upon the new elder dragon appearance and are currently working on its grand design.

http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs47/f/2009/175/2/c/violet_redisign___ugly_O_o_by_AlatDragon.jpg

what i would hope for that they fix atleast the hobosack issue…

mikeew.8607:

Some pretty interesting ideas here. I was actually spit-balling some ideas on how to address this today. This has always been something that has bothered me, too.
For example:
Have kits respect the existing back item flag. If you have a back item and you want to show it, hide the kit. If you don’t have a back item or choose to hide it, always show the kit. Obviously this makes it a little harder than usual to tell what kit you are using, so:
A nameplate icon similar to Elemental Attunements would be a good addition (I may add this regardless if we can get the art )
Move the kit somewhere else on your body. I know, crazy right? For example, who doesn’t like a sweet fanny-pack?
Hopefully this finally gets resolved soon, and I’ll do what I can to see that happen. Keep in mind, as Colin mentioned before, that there are some pretty beefy projects going on that are consuming our engineering time. But that doesn’t exactly mean we can’t sneak stuff in here and there .
-Bill

was posted 11 months ago has there been any resolve?

That this threat is still front page should tell you otherwise. Nope man, nothing of that sort was made

what could get down a huge ship? Uhh..in the gw universe? Lemme get out my list…

- Asura mega lasers (whats my bet cause of the inquest in the trailer)
-Charr cannons
-Anything other siege weapon related
-Dragons
-Beeing too close to the Tengu walls
-A bomb on board
-Other Airships
-Maybe something in maguuna that doesnt really like airships
-A zerg who mistook it for a champion and wanted loot

Never.8571:

kokiman.2364:

What’s so interessting about her?

She’s a NecroMesmer?

with a whip….10/10

Oxstar.7643:

AsmallChicken.9634:

Rifle #1 spam outdamages FT 1 spam to tell you how bad off FT dmg is.

depends on if you specc around FT or not.

as a guy who used flamer for a long time as main kit and traited arround it.. i gotta say nope. Rifle still outmatches it..sadly