i noticed enemies seem to have new profssions… I think. In AC there are Ascalonian ghosts as an enchanter and monk. Perhaps these are insights of new professions to come?
there are ways to have only 10% of the whole fight to actually be revealed from stealth with duration per each invis able to be manipulated regardless of length of a fight. I am sure the people complaining are complaining about these. Instead of the many .. MANY new thiefs that roam pvp / wvwvw. The people who claim stealth is fine are people who would make stories of how the theifs they fight are truely amazing and talk of their proofless experience against killing many clueless theives.
I’d swear my rifle has been doing significantly less damage since the patch, but maybe I’ve just been fighting things with higher defense. I’m still leveling, and moving through Dredgehaunt. Still, everything feels more difficult now, from last week.
I feel the same way. I thought I was imagining it.
I love the feel of my engineer. I really do. But the kits I love using, grenades, bombs, and FT just FEEL so awkward to use. With grenades and bombs its the 11111111 spam, (yes, i do use the other ones too) and with the FT its the missmissmissmiss bugs. Give me a sniper rifle dps kit or something, take away the mortar and make it the new 30 pt elite =P.
I rolled a necro, and yes I am a glutton for punishment >_< stupid pets.
I did the exact opposite. I complain about necros in wvw and moved in to engineers. I think lyfe sux more as an engi is true.
I’m not so clear between the elementalist and engineer philosophies in the “leveled playing field”
Is engineer better or elementalist better at versatility?
why at the bottom of the engineer philosphy said with such great versatility comes with great dmg cost. When elementalists said king of versatility, but we want some great aoe dmg / dmg aswell.
OP is technically correct. The ones that disagree have similar builds, talking from a wide variety of builds they don;t work unless specific things are tended forcing you in a certain build you may not like. Overall Engis isn;t good unless you want to run similar builds.
Pistol 1 deals very, VERY, poor damage. It has been mathed out that the basedamage is very poor, and the scaling even worst.
By design Engineers deal less damage then other professions, because of something commonly known as the Hybrid Tax.
In otherwords. You will deal less damage then any other profession, and if by some reason you do not, expect a n.erf.
hybrid tax.. I hear no such thing with my elementalist
I was under the impression that gw2 can have any builds viable, but a rifle specced dps build has no dps. Not to mention all the bugs.
Elixer U needs to be mentioned as it is highly unreliable and not warrant the benefits especailly the toolbelt skill sometimes doesn;t activate after thrown
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sometimes my riflecharged shot,and blunderbuss shots are just not coming out.
I think the best way to view the rifle is as a compliment to your choice of kit slots, not as a focus to a build.
I will say this is purely from a WvW perspective, I don’t PvE.
Rifle is just one set of abilities which have their uses, there are potentially 15 other (weapon toolbar) abilities that could be used in conjunction with rifle + toolbelt skills.
Surely the comprehensive view would be which kits compliment the rifle set up? i.e power, precision. and how that build as a whole(including kits and toolbelt skills) compares to a rifle warrior than just the 5 skill choices while rifle is equipped?
Just seems that people are dumbing down engi skills to the warrior’s level.
the backpack is a turn off for me; it would seem like from your response your the superior with absolutely no complex kinda guy aren’t ya?
Especially when they don;t play like you; the standards of all thing engineer.
Yup only decent elite is supply drop and if play asura attack golem with med kit boost. (i can hear another nerf inc. ) Golem do double dps compared to engi (sad, ridiculous but true) Too bad it inst insta cast. For me its been the last ace in sleeve when ppl ignore it. (especually guardians and then boom boom.) Golem is what engi kits should be.
hey, that is what I do too xD; except i use elixer S before casting golem and it completely covers the delay of casting that golem. So in my Oh crap moment, will become their okitten moments.
Greetings ANet & everyone,
I’m sorry, But I LIKE DPS & i’m very likely enjoy shooting from range
So don’t feel offended anyone
ENGINEER RIFLE ATTACKS needs to be redesigned, PLEASE!
Yes I have a warrior & I enjoy Kill Shot .. but Warrior is meant to be Melee & I quite enjoy professions weapons role playing in teams.
Engineer rifle is only “AUTO ATTACK” It is ridiculously designed & their attacks are really poor compared to other classes
I DO NOT want to play grenades/flamethrower
Please, Re-design the Rifle attacks for engineer
It’s really SAD only playing with auto attack (1) in groups & just drinking elixirs
EXACTLY, I completely agree. I really disliked kits with maybe the exception of med kit so i run a pure rifle build. damage is very very bad, and survivability has a lot to do with running in circles with medkits .
Lightsbane, if engis and warrior skills swap, warrior would be way too op with that much cc; since they ARE able to switch weps.
it is so bugged no one knows lol, exlixer U toolkit sometimes doesn;t even activate. Sometimes the utility slot skill quickness timer is random which isn’t suppose to be. etc etc etc etc/
I am not so sure what I am doing wrong but it seems I am lacking everything for this build. I want to be a pure glass cannon but the damage is kind of subpar. Is there anything I can do to improve this considerably?
I am not so sure what I am doing wrong but it seems I am lacking everything for this build. I want to be a pure glass cannon but the damage is kind of subpar. Is there anything I can do to improve this considerably?
Anet should seriously put those princess dolls in the halloween doors instead, as soon as you open a present they hit you with a confusion that tics 1000! in queensdale, and I am a lvl 62 with appropriate armor and still died in 1 hit. Also, that screech ~….. Just way too creepy for christmas. Hope it IS working as intended.
My main is a Necro to lvl80, move to Engineer just got to lvl 80 and its in the same state as necro lol. BTW my necro and his draining wells are still much better than ( atleast for me) the engineer build i went for. Glass cannon build.. takes 16 shots to kill stuff. ( I don’t use kits )
that is why I said 3s and instead of the negative effect being random we just lose 33% walking speed which cripples us to a crawl so we still have use it depending on situation.
I agree that we pay enough for versatility but I also agree on the 30% grenade reduction. I rather engineers to be a lot more reliable and useable for having to pay the price of 30% dmg reduction to grenades ( one of our main skills to use ).
calm down people, what if the sigil effects apply to each grenade being thrown? then 30% is perfectly reasonable..
Sigils with proc effects have internal cooldowns so they can’t fire more than once every two seconds or so meaning multi-hit grenades gain no benefit other than ease of application, similar to how they eat up all three incendiary ammo charges but only cause a single burn.
Sigils with passive effects like force’s +5% damage are unaffected, but then… that’s just +5% damage.
On the other hand, since weapon stats still have no bearing whatsoever on your kits you can feel free to use a pistol/shield or pistol/pistol to maybe stack up to two sigils. That could be a little nicer, assuming the offhand weapon’s still apply. Would kind of suck for rifle users, though. If both weapon sigils apply, then every kit engineer out there will probably want to dual-wield for now.
Also did you notice most weapons get a holiday skin in the notes, but not rifle? At least there will be Christmas pistols. :-x
increasing chances of activation would really help since you have 3x’s the chance to activate it.
Is a build with a greatsword and dual wield sword make any sense to anyone? Cause that is what I am planning and a friend of mine said it is completely weird. something about GS = power S/s= condition.
I am sure it is the side effects that is being underestimated atm + the unreliability that is the concern instead of the awesome benefit quickness give. In this case 5s quickness is just not enough to even out the problems it gives.
Yea, this is the only skill where you need to adjust to the skill rather than using the skill to adjust to my needs. I don’t think it working out, so far everyone I talked to in game agrees that it is one of the skills that is more gimmicky than usefulness.. Which shouldn’t be the case especially for an engineer. =/
Somestimes our characters want to wear it in a different way, like some duffle bag. I actually liked how it somestimes changes.. just not when it went down smacking the legs.
Am I using this wrong? this skill decreases my survivability atleast 50% as a pure rifle crit/ all out offensive build. 5 secs of quickness doesn’t warrant the loss of all endurance( = instant death for me) / instant death (1 hit killed) / no heal is fine for 5 sec.
Perhaps Im using this skill wrong? anyone want to enlighten me? =s
tool belt skill always give me the wrong spell too, horrible luck here.
my major qualms with jagged horror is that it seems like a very specific trait to be there so early on. as well as I don’t want a little ugly thing that follows me being completely useless. This trait is only useful and liked by minion masters. as a dagger power/ vampire build I find it annoying to have a critter like that spend his lifespan at my shoes starring at the ground. for a few sec.
I really dislike the jagged horror, could we have some other buff of any sort? or perhaps something that can also be useful to people that aren;t neccessary specialized in minions.
Again I support making turrets racial specific and have better designs. ATM it looks like Diddy from Donkey Kong made them xD. I think this is the 5th thread on this I’ve supported not counting the one I made few months ago.
i am kind of relying on med kits condition removal potion for conition removal.. However i do notice whenever i am immobolized poisoned and flaming and i dropped the potion in front of me.. i can;t reach it…..
I use Elixer B, Goggles, and Elixer U atm. Goggles and B for fury/vuln/might- and U so I can drink them both fast and spam as much as i can FAST. through the wall elixer U create for extra dmg.. However I die in 1 hit from anything.
They really should change elixer U so it has stable sideeffects.. losing all endurance is instant death since my only source of survival is constant speed and circling them.
what is preferred for general survivability If I have to pick 1.
I am currently trying to replace elixer U, since it is horribly unreliable and the sideeffects kills me really fast as a pure offensive char with no regards to survival.
I disagree making extra modes. However having another way of obtaining the item of Hard JP in another Hardway would be understandable. ppl can get rewards and experience the jump puzzle.
Im not planning to make a legendary, and I haven’t play runescape since classic. My point is just a change of pace would be good and have something we can do without fighting too much. I love the fighting parts but I think it is better to balance the two to have elements n the game that is chilled and not always have to fight an army for hours in order to proceed.
I just overall like crafting for what it is, and I just want to see views on a different paced way of incorporating crafting while fixing small issues such as deserted maps, etc.
(sad, ridiculous but true) Too bad it inst insta cast. For me its been the last ace in sleeve when ppl ignore it. (especually guardians and then boom boom.) Golem is what engi kits should be.