Does hell have to freeze over before fresh faced forumite’s come to the realisation that in refusing to carry cleanse it follows that their build is bad?
always want to try avoid autoattacking on Engineer anyway I feel.
Spec into Elixirs and use FT or EG for times when you need to Auto.
Pistol is great for laying down poison, but more importantly, for the bouncing blind.
Offhand does decent damage too, but Blowtorch can be janky at close range.
Shield offers reflect, which is extremely handy vs Lich, Ranger and P/P thief on the rare occasions you see one. The Shield block is also brilliant vs any Melee.
I prefer pistol builds in PvP for the utility/defense over Rifle, which is more of a berzerker pew pew weapon for burst specs in my opinion.
Built and played well, Engineer is still the best class in the game in my opinion.
(Don’t tell Reddit)
Took a bit of time playing all the other professions again and changing up my play-style a little, but I feel extremely confident that Engineer is still a beast.
That said, all professions have a lot of potential, I’ve been able to perform well with recent builds on everything except Thief, but only because I don’t play Thief.
Just keep working on your skills OP and really try to ensure there is a harmony between your traits/abilities/stats and runes/sigils. There is plenty to think about, but that’s what makes it a fun experience.
The patch is not what put Burn Guard down a peg. It’s the solid existing balance of the game.
Once condi burst became a big deal, players started carrying cleanse, lots of cleanse, which which every profession has access to in one way or another.
This is just a natural shift in meta responding to a common powerful build.
We are also seeing a lot less ’zerker burst builds than right after the specialisations patch release as players are starting to build defence to prevent instant kills.
It remains to be seen how things play out when all the bugs are fixed, but for now I see all classes frequently in matches, played in quite a nice variety of builds.
I also know for sure there are better builds than the current recommendations on metabattle for many classes, at least for my playstyle.
But most of all, played and built well, Engineer is still top tier, and that keeps me happy :P
Just keep changing up your builds, trying new combinations and synergies. Eventually you’ll come across great stuff.
I haven’t had this much fun in GW2 since release.
AMR is bugged with secondary heal skill abilities/traits since the specialisations update
Calling for a buff to this already fantastic trait is, in my opinion, absurd. However, it’s current bugged state makes it worseless for Healing Turret or charged AED.
Possible solution if we are trying to keep Rev feeling quite different would be to have whichever weapon you use in your first weapon slot appear when using your first legend, and second weapon slot for the second legend.
Stats on all abilities are terrible and the skill ceiling is extremely low for this class, meaning you can’t do much with it.
Ventari tablet is the exception gameplay wise, it is a pleasure to play with and beautiful to look at.
I believe Revenant desperately needs additional 1-5 skills. The Engi/Ele one weapon schtick only works for them thanks to kits/toolbelt and Attunement.
I very much agree with the general consensus that this build would benefit more from Rabid than Cele OP.
@mcef:
Cloaking Device is an incredible trait.
I would thoroughly recommend giving it a proper go, if you haven’t already.
I’ve found CD + Power Shoes in Inventions to be notably superior traits to the typical Speedy Kits/Power Wrench set-up in Tools. At least from a defensive perspective.
Somewhere after about ~300ms is when this starts to manifest I find.
Perhaps your connection has degraded recently.
Might be worth running a few basic diagnostics to see if you can find an issue, maybe give your ISP a buzz following that, they can run some tests and offer advice too.
Spirit Watch and Courtyard suggestions are great, exactly what needs to happen for those maps to make Ranked Queue.
I’d like to see private server options to modify spawn times back to normal for Courtyard though, 10v10 clusterkittens on that map are pure joy.
I think adding kiddy rails to Skyhammer just makes it a boring Kyhlo clone. Perhaps it will be a great map forever relegated to hotjoin as a very fun experiment.
Engineer is recognized as having a relatively high skill floor, thusly it could be reasonably concluded that engineer players are, on average, more skilled. Which would obviously skew the results of a report.
Imagine if you ever played any of the builds you whine about OP…
Regardless, how to beat a turret spec:
#1. Get gud. (means play turrets in this instance)
#2. Turrets only wins if you run in and get spammed with CC, so use ranged skills.
#3. Range.
#4. More Range.
#5. ??
#6. Praise Brew Pinch.
If you play Guard, you can wade into the turrets with stability and just CC chain the Engi to death.
P.S. You’re completely wrong with all that balance QQ, OP.
