Guild Wars 2

ukuni.8745:

in 11 days this topic will have literally been on the front page of the engineer forums for a year, a whole year engineers have kept this post going just so we can have the ability to change the look of something we are nearly forced to use so we can have a viable build.

anet can you please give us some information about what is planned and please not your usual “this is on our radar”.

then lets take sure it stays where it is and celebrate the first birthday of a thread that shouldnt even exist in the first place in a game that builds more on visuals then stats…ugh…

maciora.9542:

Basaltface.2786:

heh.. thats not a “big” issue to them.. even if it should be. The engineer class is dumbed down beyond belief atm. Turrets suck, you only got ranged weapons, the kits are too weak raw damage wise (in my opinion but thats for a different thread) and then they also look just ugly. Some dye would already do a lot or an option to hide it.. man that CANT be that hard to do, or a hide button for those who dont want it. Come on a net show some love for the engineers. Its especially sad if you bought the game to play engineer (like i did)

Bravo! Finally someone told true. If the skills are having change so huge like heal scaling by 50% or transmutation 100% (cooldown tooo long as usual), it is a proof that class is dumbed down, broken etc.
And of course hobo – sacks, they look like shieet. Its like a beta or something , bump all the way the top !

well i sorta stopped using the turrets cause those racial skill sylvary turrets (of the mesmer in my usual group i play with) outmatched mine…humiliating if practially a quarter of what an engineer should be good for gets outmatched by a mesmer -_-. Those things even can be “thrown” into place while i gotta carry mine where i need em and then babysit em like expensive vases. Even the supply crate doesnt do justice at all. In fact if it would be after my wishes turrets would stay as weak as they are.. BUT you spawn 3 of each with the skill, that way it would justify the weakness. I mean the basic one shoots cotton balls with the reload speed of the history of mankind…and you only need to glare at it from the side and it explodes. The flame turret´s range is shorter then a toothpick, the net tower does have its uses if it got a very good day and hits for once. The thumper is only good in narrow spots.. whats practically its use anyways, the rocket turret…man go home you drunk, never hits and if it does its almost funny to see the damage. You gotta “overcharge” it to have a knockdown…i mean come on man XD.
Well.. that out of my system.. back to the kittening about the hobosacks…

heh.. thats not a “big” issue to them.. even if it should be. The engineer class is dumbed down beyond belief atm. Turrets suck, you only got ranged weapons, the kits are too weak raw damage wise (in my opinion but thats for a different thread) and then they also look just ugly. Some dye would already do a lot or an option to hide it.. man that CANT be that hard to do, or a hide button for those who dont want it. Come on a net show some love for the engineers. Its especially sad if you bought the game to play engineer (like i did)

Yea.. seems they really dont care, what i personally just find sad. Isnt like engineers already got the shaft with the vortex of coats that are really not all that different from eachother AND then to add a bit more salt to the wound the races that use a lot of technology in their overall design (charr, azura) get those coats stretched to fit their shapes. Hard enough to find armor that fits\dont clips but then you cant even stray far from the hobosack colours (if you hate clashing colours like i do). The concept arts for engineers (and pretty much all charr concept arts) brought me to the game. Seriosly.. why cant we have stuff like this? Or just look at this guy :

http://www.romelunwrapped.com/images/Large/WarlockEngineer_DIFF_001.jpg

Yea a warhammer scaven warlock engineer.. i know…wrong universe jada jada… but a good example for fantasy engineer nonetheless. Imagine his wonderfull backpack as a flamer fuel tank or screw some vials on it and call it a potion cannon backpack. MUCH more appealing. Then a bucket of dye to fit to the armor you got on and BAM done.

I highly doubt this thread will get seen and\or cared about by Anet… but it wont stop me from keeping it alive, dont care if this is a fruitless task but hey.. better then doing nothing at all. I love the engineer class but id love to also feel\look like a proud (and awe inspiring) master of gadgets if i charge at the enemie with my belching flamer or turn the enemie to a bleeding pin cushion with the darts from my elixir cannon before beating the life out of them with a prybar and wrench and finishing up with my assortment of explosives…not looking like a hobo that somehow tinkered together a flamerthrower.

Junkpile.7439:

At least some heavy armors are frigging cool. My PTSD warrior is just too awesome.

and i agree.. THIS looks just amazing, specially the helmet does it for me man, good job

thefantasticg.3984:

Apathy.6430:

There’s plenty of fancy looking armors in the game.

Every single piece of male medium armor is pitifully ugly. None of it (unless you really like long coats or dresses) is appealing to my eyes. None. Zero. 0. Female medium armor is almost as bad but there are a few pieces I like.

Heh.. ask me as charr engineer. I had loved to see more along the lines of what the concept arts show like the awesome charr with the flamer and his amazing cool velding goggle mask, yet all i get are long coat tents with horrible stretching. There are not many (medium) armors at all that can be even considered fitting for a charr engineer (in my humble opinion and preferences) …cept maybe the magitech if you really wanna stretch it…can also be taken literally sadly. You would belive that for medium armors you would get ranger, thief AND engineer orientated armory. I mean sure.. coats, masks, pirate hats and stuff like this are actually really nice to see arround, but where things like for example smith aprons, thight leather stealth suits with lots of straps and buckles with knives and pouches, shrouds or even ponchos, welding googles or just some more variation in bottoms? I for example would LOVE to see a leather armor like this here for a change (ignore the dwarf who wears it)

http://digital-art-gallery.com/oid/82/640x704_14427_Leader_Engineer_2d_fantasy_dwarf_steampunk_picture_image_digital_art.jpg

Or something along those lines (same for the goblin)

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/118/b/7/goblin_engineer_phineas_by_mwatsuki-d3f4i6x.jpg

or my god stuff like this here (what would be more then epic for all medium classes) :

http://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic1462104.jpg

or something like this:

http://gamersnewz.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ACR_MP_Render_04_The_Renegade.jpg.jpg

or hell stuff like this:

http://www.medievalcollectibles.com/images/Product/large/MCI-2700.png

Even the embrace of sorrow dungeon medium armor that SHOULD be (in my humble opinion designed arround the engineer style) is a coat.. and to add salt to the wound also the one with the least “science” on it. I mean yea.. i get it. The armors are designed to be universal for the classes that can equip them.. but come on, make atleast SOME parts unique for the style of the classes or atleast different styles or allow people to transmute parts from other armor ratings alltogether and just puzzle their styles together like they want. Like for example a hood together with a heavy cuirrass, a skirt, leather shoulders and medium gloves or a light armor mage coat with heavy armor bottoms , gloves , boots and shoulders. Like i said before the " armor should look like its class specific style wise" should be invalid by now.. look at the “any armor rating” facepaint on the gem store (what looks amazing btw, good job Anet ), nuff said.

What WOULD be a cool (and probably easy to implement) way to solve much of that issue is that the use of those transmutation gems ignores the armor rating fully…man just think about the mixes you could make alone through that and i FINALLY could get something else but a darn trench coat, boring pants, pirate hats and puny excuses for shoulders. There are skins in game that fully ignore whatever armor rating your piece got…like the new facepaint mask they added recently. Want a heavy rating? Sure go on mate. Medium? Np right at you. Light? Of course bro. So yea.. do that to ALL armor pieces and it would make a LOT of people happy. And dont give me that “heavy should look like heavy and light like light” stuff. If facepaint can be heavy and medium a pirate hat can be light and heavy. Im sure some heavy and light guys and girls would love to get their hands on some leather pants or a leather mask.. or just a good old trenchcoat for a change while some medium guy\girl would drop a tear to finally get a chainmail chestpiece and a cloth skirting or armored bottoms. Specially in gw2 where you get a lot of awesome pieces to work with its always a mood killer to look at the merchants and go like “oh wow those shoulders would fit perfectly on my avatar, and deam look at this helmet” and then you see the armor rating and yea… too good to be true. Imagine alone the amount of transmutation crystals that would get sold Anet.

Depths.4051:

Honestly, I don’t mind the fact we need a pack of some kind to store the tools, but couldn’t it at least be a satchel or something? I agree with the idea to toggle the huge monstrosity off if we can’t get it changed. Make it a gem store item, w.e needs to be done to change this Dx

I think too that a tool pack or general a kit backpack is actually nice to have. I mean all those elixiers, fuel, poison, caldrops, tools, bombs, turrets, ammo, gadgets and grenades need to be kept SOMEWHERE. Well wo dont likes it should just have the option to dont show it at all and be happy aswell. The ONLY thing thats truly wrong on this is the fact that you cant change the design in any way. Brown with red\brown flap for each race regardless of how the rest of the armor looks. Clashes with way too much colours and needless to say many races too, ESPECIALLY azura and sylvari. I mean as a charr player i can swallow the design easily since thats pretty much charr like it is, as human or norn i prolly wouldnt see much of an issue either, well maybe with the size on a human, but thats also only a matter of taste. If they really would start to fix something id say they should start with the ability to hide the kit packs and the ability to dye them (obviosly including the starter pack) and maybe right away also fix the bug that if you wear a backpack already and draw a kit they sometimes clip together like mad and sometimes the backpack vanishes and gets replaced if you draw the kit. More designs should be of course added too…but baby steps rather then no steps at all. I might not be arround as long as many others, but if it kittenes me off already big time i can only imagine that many are already at the boiling point or just too frustrated to even fully care anymore. I would give an arm and a leg if the packs would go perfectly with my pretty red\back\brass coloured mix of cultural, magitech and kryta clusterf**k armor >_<

i actually would like to have something along the lines of a heavy cannon or a rocket launcher.. sorta like the charzooka elite skill, just obviosly slower shooting. Basically a long range heavy hitter kit. Another idea what would be cool would be a total buff kit. Basically sorta like the healing kit..just 100% focused on buffs. Might be only me but i do enjoy to support my team with my buff potion throws at dungeon runs or revive them with a well placed throw. Why dont make a “potion grenade kit” that does just that and does it well. How about a “blocker kit” with lots of shielding and reflect ablities paired up with a basic shield bash that obviosly is just for emergency? Imagine this paired up with a heavy hitter as tag team, taking cover behind the engineer or in his\her shield bubble and attacking from behind him\her. And as final kit idea i would have a “jet gear”. Totally focused on movement with leap attacks and far jumps paired up with the basic wrench 3 hit combo. Sure we got ways to get arround like this.. but imagine a whole kit like this, id say it would be awesome to have. Another idea would be not quite a kit.. more an elite skill. A sniper version of the mortar. Those would be amazing for support and are technically already in the game. Placing yourself with your sniper tripod far away from the enemie and using your slow reloading but powerfull rifle to give ranged support to your team. Maybe add a knockback or knock down bullet to the rifle and here we go. Timing would be the key here.. like interrupting a charging enemie or a heavy attack. Wouldnt be mobile, wouldnt take much physical abuse and would have the same long reload like the mortar.

Well in my humble opinion (as charr engineer player) those hobosacks are just…hideous. In fact SPECIALLY those things should be customisable alteast in colour cause they stare at you most of the time…if you use kits obviosly and/or just dont like the look . And maybe its only me.. but i never really managed to get the brown tone of this things to atleast paint my armor like them to sorta go with it, is the same with the guild backpacks while we are at this theme. And yea.. then the issue with the legendary weapons that dont show if you got a kit out. Man Anet.. love you guys, love guild wars2 and watcha do… but for christs sake PLEASE fix those kits, add a hide button for those who dont wanna have it, let it show the main weapons sheathed while in use atleast, let us dye them (maybe also a good chance to make guild versions by using the red\brown cloth flap on them) and maybe add an overall bigger collection of back items designed for the classes but available to all while we are at it. (like scroll packs for the mage types, maybe a back mounted war banner for the warrior guys, maybe a back mask or a few masks for mesmers or just a few capes.. or a pole with skulls on it, man.. so easy to find guff to carry arround and pimp out the char. Could think of a big list on the fly.). Wouldnt that look good? Wouldnt that sell some gems? Wouldnt people have a hell of a lot fun just adding stuff like this to their awesome armors to give it a final detail? Maybe its just me.. but id pay for that anytime.