Guild Wars 2

Engineer
1) Valkyrie Equipment
And die from conditions for 6-7 seconds. What kind of garbage you write?
True glass cannons, however, can hit for a whole lot more than 6K.
No. Condition bunkers mitigate a lot of damage. But condition burst does same damage + aoe.
2) 700 – burning tick
14000 hp – thief
Burning damage 5% hp in sec. Just 1 condition. Not op. Are you kidding?
3)Half of poison dart volley misses.
So what? So do not permapoison. I’m tired of answering your crowing.
4) Engineer have best confusion access in the game. Another pointless bla bla bla.
5) Hard to use bomb. Seriously? You though believe what you write?

I like this post because it shows how little people actually know.

Valkyrie’s Amulet
Crit +15% Damage
Healing +284
Power +798
Toughness +569

So with that amulet you will being doing condition damage? The only way to keep up burning would be through crits…which is precision again this amulet is short of it…even with fury its very unlikely you will keep it up for 10 seconds.

700 per tick with a non condition amulet…no chance.

Valkyrie amulet is a very poor choice for a condition based build.

Velron.3729:

dovrak.4376:

Why aren’t engineers consider as op? They have similar access to burning plus confusion.. and they are as tanky as necros, less aoe but better mobility.. they should be tonned down imo.

Could be just because Engineer actually takes a little bit to master and really pull off that effectively…literally anyone can just make a Necro or Spirit Ranger and go faceroll.

I know, I’ve done it.

This…few engineers can actually pull off what a necro can.
Spirit Ranger does need nerfed but i really hope they leave the rest of the ranger builds alone.

Would benefit some classes more than others and forced certain setups people may not want to use.

Game needs more pets. Warrior has none…engineer’s turrets cant move. We NEED more pets!

How can % matter that much…play 1 game and you have a 100% record?

They aint syncing… well maybe but highly doubtful because I seen euratien with couple nobodies as well… just once. I see cruuk leading a bunch of nobodies all the time though.
Like I said, hotjoins is all about luck, some of those celebrity players are getting it while others aren’t. Also if your going against celeb player it pretty much means game over because a lot of people feel defeated at the start of the game, unless you have a celeb player on your team as well then you know its good game.
At least you didn’t have to 3v5 this.
Solo que is fine, but matchmaking they need improvement on, like I said a million times before.

Aww man people are such dullards….if it was me i would be wanting to beat the celeb player! I watched a few of Ostrich Eggs videos when i was struggling on my engineer…would love to kick his butt to say thanks!

If you played wow…once seen Vurtne in AV and killed him…although very nearly lost even though he had no mana lol.

saying the truth is attacking? if u mean… and if he means has some egoproblems.
its how i said. i wouldnt say anything if there wherent the problem with the ban or if he had before said something in that direction. not a single time.. even in the stog he doesnt mentioned the problems that are prob. the source of some "balance"issues. so yeah it all sounds like “mommy took my toy.. now im mad and say daddy what mommey did or not”

Ah so disregard everything he says because you dislike him. Lets not be objective and take the points in a logical manner. This just shows your too hung up on hating you can’t even see the points…regardless who makes them.

Lian Olsam.9541:

I should be the best player all over the world but how can i just hope to win a match if ppl cap a free point in 3 like hot join? There is no fun queue up and lets hope to find someone that know the difference between tournament and hj… i d also write him before match start some easy rule but they ignore it… and there is no fun play like that i can hope to found better ppl to play with, but i should go in a casino if i m lf luck

That’s the wrong attitude.

I was doing a tourney with 2 of my guild mates a week or so ago….we came up against a full premade and from the start they proved to be decent players….so when we went 100-300 down one guy quit out of the game. We weren’t thrilled about that…but my friends and i just held the middle point in a constant 3v3 against the other team.

A random engineer held off two of the enemy the whole match. If i am honest he was one of the best engineers i have seen. He won us that match…no way we could have won that with an average engineer.

Necro is OP
Mesmer is OP
Thief is OP
Ranger is OP
Engineer is OP
Warrior is OP
Elementalist is OP

Fury of Balthazar.2694:

I confirm. The loading screen for Legacy of the Foefire is about 10 seconds longer than normal.

Seconded.

I forgot women never get harassed on the internets. Oh wait, this thread.

The fact that it has nothing to do with SPVP and its sexist…now if i made a post like that your trying to tell me i wouldn’t be flamed. That’s total nonsense.

“No flirting” with OTHER GIRLS?! Really? that’s a bit of a quantum leap…its like assuming every girl gamer is gay.

Anyone who wants an edge plays an Asura. Its harder to see their animations and although they have a hit box the same as the tallest Norn this is invisible, meaning players wont take shots that would hit you because they look like they will be obstructed or miss. Even just clicking on an Asura in the middle of a zerg can be difficult and with tab targeting next to useless…you have a real edge.

Notice in the SPVP tourney that 70% of players played Asura and the others were human female…now they don’t have the racial’s in SPVP but it just shows the edge has been noticed by other players.

Turbo Whale.1738:

I’m curious about this also. It seems the only power based wvw spec you can do is a static discharge build.

No just most people have no imagination, there are good flamer builds. Tool kit is also much better as power.
I personally use a flamer toolkit build that stacks might…its very good 1 on 1.

I can’t believe people are comparing Engineer 3 with Warrior…which can be traited to 100% chance to rally if you kill someone in vengeance. If you have a close fight and you both go down…engineer loses.

Also: How are kits not our class mechanic? No other class has them, and they’re easily the most recognizable aspect of the Engineer compared to other classes.

So lets say i go a full turret build. 4 turrets…healing, net, rocket and flame. I have no kits but i still have a tool belt.
Turrets are as unique to the class as any of the kits but they are not our mechanic either.

Mammoth.1975:

Lotta guys in here seem mad about the flirting thing.

Well you know we always flirt with members of the same gender we expect the women to do the same. I always say “no flirting” when i first meet a guy….

Most players are necro’s at the moment because you can roll your face on the keyboard and win. Engineers…i don’t see that many to be honest.

Reikou.7068:

worst Engi NA.

Build does nothing.

Survives..
Heals team
Removes conditions from team.

Although i think it lacks bombs…hardly worthy of such a comment.

PsyOnic.3108:

Lighter.5631:

PsyOnic.3108:

Welcome to GW2. No one wants to defend the nodes, not even that bunker guardian on your team. Why bring a guard in the first place then? It’s a mess sometimes. They need to reward people actually doing the right things to win the game.

Reward = win, if they are doing the right things to win the game..

The win is still not enough of a reward apparently. People should be encouraged to play conquest how it’s supposed to be played, like defending your nodes. It’s still conquest after all. Some new game-modes would really be nice though.

Your not rewarded for defence is nobody attacks…lets say your a bunker…if you stand at a node and nobody wants to attack you…then you gain nothing.

If you anticipate something happening its not a true measure of reaction time. True reaction time has to be to something unexpected.

Lets say you see a thief coming towards you and go into stealth…how fast do you react?
Lets say you don’t see anyone and a thief opens on you..how fast do you react?

I am guessing the latter is considerably slower. Reflex isn’t the same as reaction, you have have fast reflexes but be slow to react to the unexpected.

Necromancers are complaining? really? wow.

Too few classes can get stability so they can’t break it.

TheOneNOnlyGeneralBama.9586:

Well its safe to say from the responses that the Engineer is overall weakest class in the game , hopefully it stays this way

It is the weakest class in the game…and one of the strongest.

I think engineer has the toughest learning curve of all classes. Nothing they have is straight forward such as Healing Turret vs Healing Spring. Healing spring you use and forget about it basically…so long as you stay in the zone….a healing turret is completely different, you have to manage it and try to avoid it being killed. This is a distraction that can get many players killed.

The actual engineer weapons are pretty useless on their own you have to couple them up with something like static discharge/bombs/nades/flamer.

You basically have to use kits and usually more than one. This means learning more abilities which in itself isn’t hard but the switching is easier to make mistakes with…getting out grenades instead of bombs for example.

Many of the skills are ground targeted…i only found out yesterday clicking on toss elixir automatically throws it at your feet…to be honest i would be happy if it always did that (except Rez elixir)…but higher skilled players would probably disagree. Grenades are stupidly hard to kit anything at range…but it can be done. Its easy when you have plenty of time but when your in the thick of battle its just a pain.

Static “Pets” – Turrets basically seems to be like our pets…except you can line of sight them and destroy them in a matter of seconds. They can do decent damage but i don’t think its worth it because they die too easily. Only really seem decent in defensive situations where you can have them setup before the fight starts. Even then no clue what they will target which will likely be a pet seeing most classes can summon at least 2.

I actually enjoy my engineer but it also annoys the hell out of me at times.

I have the same problem…the condition damage is pretty low…it would take all week to kill anyone….even with 1400 condition damage i see little benefit for it.

Alkaholic.3875:

Isn’t that what “asura’s have an advantage” means? That’s like saying:

The NFL should ban white quarterbacks cause they have an unfair advantage and “all” pro teams use them.

…but RGIII…

…u kitten, he’s an exception.

That’s like saying a Norn should have 50% more power than an Asura, his advantage is hes bigger and stronger.

uberkingkong.8041:

stability is pretty noticeable boon.

Please explain how its any more noticeable than any other boon.

OP just seems like a bad warrior, he doesn’t believe Bulls Rush stuns? he takes mobile strikes any movement skill breaks immobilize. Sounds like he doesn’t know his class too well.
Warriors are very hard to beat when played well…and they do still have some of the highest damage in the game.

Good condition removal oddly makes conditioners weak…

Engineer is second choice…much prefer my ranger for pvp.

No you will wear a jacket and bandit mask and like it!

At least you can choose between trenchcoat and chest piece with a funny dress it at the back.

I would say yes just because i think Medium armor is 90% horrific looking. Its all trench coats…i do like the new set though.

Terrahero.9358:

imaginary.6241:

A little bit OT but so that Posion Dart Volley isn’t just me? I though it happened especially with Coated Bullets but didn’t look into it any further yet.

No, its a built in failure of the ability sold as a feature.

What he means is, that just like you can sidestep and arrow you can move out of the way of poison darts.

I can’t believe they haven’t done this yet.

man, you are perfectly right… but is this a so big problem? i think there are more important things to do… and remember that devs are doing that for free… give them time and everything will be done

You having a laugh? You mean like they will balance the game in time? Don’t count on it.

Little quality of life changes make a huge difference.

Instant kill would be silly and very overpowered….a powerful shot would be great. Warriors have one for rifle…i think it looks cool.

You mean like minion masters only have one way to deal damage through their minions? Or how eles only have like one build option for damage period? Or how warriors only had (maybe have) one viable damage build?

And we have PLENTY of build variety, we have condi builds, we have pet builds (both tanky and DPS) we’ve for power builds, support builds etc. quit your kittening and stop following cookie cutters, there’s more builds that work than the ones people share.

No class has 1 working build. You sound like one of those people “Only Spirit Ranger is viable”.

The kill steals are fine.
The sharks are a pain because they interfere in PVP.

Have stacks of some items would be good..duel swords looks so much better when they are the same.

Condition damage is not countered by what counters power. Power is countered by toughness, blocks, heals, evades. Condition is supposed to be countered by vitality (good laugh that is), condition removal (application vs removal is hilariously imbalanced), healing (lemme just toss some poison on there), and then evades which weakness/chill/cripple handle.
I am not saying everyone should be able to remove conditions as easily as they are applied but the condition removal/counter/duration reduction NEEDS to be introduced. Now other classes are getting even moar torment.

Condition Damage can be blocked – Engineer, thief or Ranger can apply conditions you can block all of them.
Heal – Last i checked every class in the game had a remove at least 2 conditions on heal in traits as well as the fact heal’s do give back vitality so are a partial counter in themselves.
Evades – Every attack in the game can be evaded.
Removal – Some classes have great condition removal, Engineer with cleansing formula comes to mind.

Necro is not the only condition class….all classes can use conditions and its stupid to say they can’t be blocked or countered because they can. Every class in the game has multiple condition removals and if you use them well you shouldn’t have that much trouble most of the time. Necromancer’s are a story of their own though.

Don’t make a human/norn then? Really you wear starting outfit for like 10 minutes and its replaced.

Its bad that next to every spec NEEDS hard counters to conditions because of only imob and dps condi’s… making other condis mainly into their cover against cleansing, I mean, that isn’t innately an unworkable situation… if cleansing is well made… and until it starts pigeonholing near all conditions onto condi dps specs.

This! Now condition removal seems to be something every class whines about…yet they already have a lot. There will come a time where condition damage just won’t be worth it.

And what is this now about “Oh Ranger is spam 1 with autoattack that doesn’t sound hard.” Do people just complain about this with every single class now?

Can see your bar in the video all you do is spam 1 (in the final boss fight) and no people don’t complain about that on every class. Ever seen a warrior complain about it? thief? Engineer…highly doubtful.

Skill has nothing to do with it. Did you do good damage? yes, then your goal was achieved. You hit one button and managed it, not your fault ranger is simple in pve.

Not a bad idea, let us know how it works in practice

Actually all our offhand’s are good…torch, dagger, horn or axe. Wish main hands were as good.

Sharpened Edges – Bleed on crit
Quick Draw – 20% faster long/short bow cooldowns.
Trappers Expertise
Trap Potency
Pets Prowess

All of those are good…depending on build. Not exactly sure how moment of clarity works..so don’t know about that one.

Nuka Cola.8520:

Newbie.4586:

I just find it funny ANET believes 3 Stacks of Bleed == 3 stacks of Vuln

It increases damage to your whole team!!!!!!!lol i love when people say this as if you had a team with you permanently everywhere you go use dat Maul on…

I think you misunderstood him, or i have. I thought he was agreeing with you.

Ranger is the only class that can use both the Short Bow and Longbow. That is the ranger exclusive (unparralleled) part.
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Your just making stuff up, saying that because we can use two types of bow…who cares…engineers are only class that can use two types of gun. Thief is only class that can use two daggers…and warrior can duel wield swords….means nothing.

Guild wars 1 all Rangers used bows and your going to say its not their signature weapon? why because it doesn’t suit you? Unparalleled doesn’t mean unique.

It means – not paralleled; unequaled or unmatched; peerless.

this argument can also be applied if someone dodged the old hunters shot only then you would get 0 stacks of vuln which most people usually dodge the first shot you fired at them anyways since it is telegraphed much more and a lot of people admitted to opening with hunters shot previously for their rotation

Its better they dodge the hunters shot before. Then they eat at least part of the rapid fire, a fairly low 3k rapid fire is the same as the difference vulnerability would make at 10% if you took 30,000 damage. Now all eggs are in one basket and you can avoid the lot.

Miflett.3472:

The only problem I have is when some accidently assume that if someone doesn’t share my same playstyle then they are either doing it wrong, or are not proficient at the game.

That’s because guild wars system is totally inflexible and we must all spec the same and play the same!

Ranger doesnt mean archer so thinking that the bow is our signature weapon is another mistake.

From guild wars site…under professions.
Rangers rely on a keen eye, a steady hand, and the power of nature itself. Unparalleled archers, rangers are capable of bringing down foes from a distance with their bows. With traps, nature spirits, and a stable of loyal pets at their command, rangers can adapt to any situation.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/professions/ranger/