Guild Wars 2

If they truly wanted to buff the conjours they should just turn them into a 60 second attunement…flicking through 8
attunements would be awesome and make for some interesting play.

Staff is very strong if you can keep in rotation, even does well on 1v1… Same as any ele build! d/d with commanders is still my fave though… Perma fury/swift/ 25 (might during 2nd rotation) and even since launch its still the most enjoyable weapon set to play.

Your missing the biggest impact off wvw and that’s players mindset off how they play the game.

Yes there are imbalances in the game without a doubt, but the biggest downfall off wvw is zergs and we have nothing but the majority off wvw population to blame… Change the mindset off players and I can garentee wvw would be much more enjoyable.

So the update went live and everyone else jumped into wvw… First thing I did was look on the wvw lfg and guess what it was empty (I was a little surprised but not to much)

What I was hoping is that this patch would incurage more small scale skirmishs but instead all I saw was 6 commander tags all in the same zergs still k training.

If anet ever wanted wvw to be about fights all around the map they need to make squads more viable, what I was thinking myself is disabled all visable commander tags and only have the squads tag showing.

I know people only have to ask in map chat where the zerg is but surely it’s a start, the main problem is a small/unfunded wvw team with very terrible ideas working on but not fixing wvw.
Let’s just hope they get it right I gw3 if it ever comes out

Jski.6180:

You realty should aim to play wvw for wvw not for rewards.

I’d say the most important part off leveling up is for the wvw skill line, the rewards are minimal at best… This may be his aim.

Skirmish sounds like a step In the right direction, now just take away all those pointless doors and just have a capture point and if there are more than ten attackers in the keep poison is applied to the attackers giving them a slow death and useless heal.
Risk VS reward

Jski.6180:

I like to see OS become like eotm.

This is what I’d also love to see, it would bring life back cos it just seems to be a ghost time now… I miss the days where it had a healthy population all throughout the day and night.

Lfg could be the best thing going for wvw as long as they do away with commanders tags, with any luck it would decrease zergs… I know ow it won’t, but I can always dream.

Sly.9518:

No Thief Condi build oneshots any actual WvW build……. sounds like you are fighting a Mesmer no Condi thief builds stealths before engage…..

Simply not true… I run full condi with p/d d/p and before I engage a fight I always stealth up with venoms, right off the bat I can get bleeds and torments stacked right up.

I think they should just decrease the gem prices… Most populated server full gem price decreasing to free to the least populated server and stagger the the gem prices quite considerably between top and bottom.

Then add two reward systems (gold only)
first reward would be where you finish In the league most gold goes to top place and again the rewards decreasing all the way to the bottom tier.

The second reward should be for transferring… the less populated server you go to the more gold you get.
What could make it work is if you migrate to the bottom server and win your match up, then you would earn as much gold as the server that come top off tier one… Whist this has no server pride it may tempt guilds to move about.

That scrapper build does look awesome… Definitely suits my playstyle… Cheers for the builds.

Hi all… So it been over 3 years since I last played this game and have dearly missed it.
Next week I shall be getting a new pc (finally) and this game shall be the first game installed.

Anyway I was just wondering what the current state off the 3kit engi is in for solo roaming and duels In wvw? is it still viable or has the meta completely shifted… From what I remember I used to run p/s eg/bk/tk, full condi with sigil of torment and at the time it rocked. This was my playstyle
https://youtu.be/0q6iB-iyZDY

https://youtu.be/NoDnRerkj7w

As I was wondering what is the new meta… Cheers all from an excited engineer getting back into the game!

Not played this game in about 6 month but I played a 3 kit condi pretty well, this vid shows a style to a pretty decent lvl!

GW2-Engineer wvw: http://youtu.be/NoDnRerkj7w

After going through a lot off rune sets on my power engi ive found that noble are the best for max damage, this is the pve build i play and it hits like a truck! http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqel0p6ZHxy2F17IyoCdGoHAGfNife8WPIEC-jgCBYfBEbBhoAh8GkEBIzsIasVhFRjVXDT5iIq2erIa1SBAzwK-e and if it isn’t max dps it’s very close!

Tbh they really need to increase the damage of the lords, at the moment they are to easy to flip solo, but we might as well take advantage of it!

The build i tend to favour to is this one http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqelIqic3zyuF1LJxoCdGki6qXRFy/nHyNtsF-jgCB4iBEbBhoAh8GkEBIHqIas1gFRjVJjIqWpEzcrIa1SBAzcA-e as i can swap between a condi or power build without retraiting, but i was playing 30/0/0/30/10 in the vid which also does ok!

edit: had put a link to the wrong build, it is now updated to the current one i use!

Cheers, yeah that is what makes me love my engi so much more over the other classes, just the ability to do so many combos, and everyone had their own little way off doing things!

And this room is in the obsidian sanctum, you can find it inside the eb jp, they tend to have a great little community in there, one off the reason that keep me going back there!

Hopefully this is my first video of many, the quality of the video keeps putting me off, though!
This is just some duels in the sanctum the other day, sorry about the lack off class diversity i play against, but it is really quiet in there atm!

Why not try a hybrid build, they work wonders in both dungeons and pvp and this build can hit like a truck, this link is more off a dungeon set up though!

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqel0p6ZHxyuF17IyoCdGoHAGfNife8WPIEC-jwCBYjBEbBhoAh8GkEBIRtIasVhFRjVVjIqWlEzeTQ2kTZVKAYGWB-e

I would like to see things ive never really done or seen on an engi before, outnumbered vid on a lvl 20 engi and well just generally owning people with the most obscure builds you can think off, you know something fresh and exciting, we’ve see and done all those outnumbered vids, so i would love for a streamer try something new and refreshing!

yeah the bleeds were awesome in the betas, i remember one off my first builds, it was a p/p hgh elixir build, you auto attack people to death! it did need toning down, but they took it a little to far and the problem with nurfing something that early into the games life, people didn’t really understand the manics of the game, it was a hard hit to us, a small buff would be more than welcome!

it’s new content so it will die down soon and just like before not many people will go there, give it a few weeks when things are more quite then we’ll see if it’s possible for gvg.

This arena has great potential from gvg to 1v1 and i have to say i really like it, they just really do need a trait and repair merchant to make it complete.

yeah, looking like this might be a good pace for 1v1’s!
Only think i’m still annoyed about is the lack of a repair vendor, it’s needed one since it became it’s own instance, hotfix would be great, if not at least give us one next patch.

Not sure why it was empty on your match up, im on gunners hold and the pace was rammed" so many easy kills!

All they need to do with the auto attack on the pistol is swap it with the eg auto attack, i would be much more than happy then! As for the rifle, well yeah it’s just plain pants.

Perma swiftness is prema swiftness regardless off the cd, so in that light it’s a massive nurf when it come to boom stripping, that’s a potential loss of 9 sec of swiftness compared to our current 4 secs.

As it has already been said before, there is no “strongest” class (as every class has their own strong roaming builds) but it’s the person that plays the class well that makes them shine, even with my condition engi ive burst down so many classes in under 10 sec from thieves to necros. You would be surprised how many bad roamers there are out there, meta builds doesn’t give you a i win button!

If you fully maximize with your stats you should be sitting at 1.7k+ condition damage and with buffs and might you should be able to get to around 3.1 to 3.2k, maybe more i havn’t maxed it out myself, you do some serious damage when you do hit the 3k mark as it is though!

https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/110221/gw025.jpg

Engies are just as easy to play as a worrier even 3kit engies, all it comes down to is muscle memory and general knowledge of the other classes! If you posses those 2 things and a half decent build you will do well, but that goes for all classes!

Just do a quick search on the engineer forum, there have been so many builds posted recently. But tbh i would just go spvp and create builds for yourself till you find one you like.

just go for the ht/eg/bk/x you can easily get over 20 stacks of might if you chose to. obviously the more might and boon runes the easier, but it pretty easy even with just just 20% extra might (holbeck being my fave atm!)

As for traits, pick what you wont as it make no odds.

lol, kitten …… cheers for that!

Does Anet have any plans to fix those then? Or is might building forbidden in the water! O_o
It’s been bugging me for a while now!

Only if Anet had done wvw in the same format as spvp, this would of made it alt friendly, balanced and just more fun in general! But i’m fine with ascended as long as that’s where it stops.

I hope people will use this opportunity to group up into small party’s and not look for the blue dots, with no points at stake there is no reason to zerg! Wvw could be so much more if it just wasn’t 80% pvd, 15% fights of 50 vs 70 whilst crating skill lag on the rest off the map then 5% roamers.

Infarct this could be a great map for anet to test things out themselves, take away all npc or don’t have any keeps ect to capture and best of yet no downed state. it wouldn’t affect the leagues and it would keep things fresh, but i suppose i can always dream.

This is the best pve build i’ve come up with, it tags like a boss and does lots off sustained damage as you will have very high might all off the time.

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-V;4cPVg0c-gTFx0;9;4T9-J929A0;308-5;0Sc1;3l5Qgl5QgI-ki-M;4VfVj0nXt2-455AwW6s4e0c

it works very well in both dungeons and open world pve.

I really like the thumper turret and i would love to fit it into my build, but the eg is just way superior, with a healing stun breaker that’s on a shorter cd, an aoe condition removal every 16 sec, and my favourite bast finisher on the engi,, i just couldn’t pick the thumper over it! The only reliable stealth i can see on your build is “toss elixir s” and i would probably just use that for a stealth stomp, but then i usally use bob or the ht for that.
Smoke bomb and one blast is pretty good for an opener, but when your in a fight chances are your blasts will fail to stealth you when fighting on a point.

This build does have some diversity within it, but when compared to a ht/tk/bk/eg set up, it’s just not on par! Defiantly give it a go though.

hgh is useless, traps you into your traits to much and those little changes on elixirs aint gonna make it that much better. I have to say i was a little disappointed with this patch, i love the increase in size off the bombs, it really is so good, but that’s it. im sticking to my ht/tk/bombs and eg.

Just wish they would sort the turrets out as i’ve always wanted to use them without feeling underpowered! One day they will have their day! O_o

I would love to see other people story’s or videos of having the perfect fight.
Being jumped on by a 2 thieves for them to take you down to your last 5% hp and you turning it around and kicking their kitten all the way home, a roaming group that goes head first into numbers twice their size and coming out top trumps, or just a simple 1v1.

I Will get the ball rolling with ashort and simple 1v1,

Practice, practice, practice. But I would have to agree with practising in spvp, yes the stats are different but the core mechanics are the same and you will have the benefit off trying out loads off builds, pvp’ing non stop and the ability to spectate, i would argue that the last reason is the best if you only plan on playing one class, cos at least that way you will know how their big hits and combos play out. Also stick to rooms that only have 2/4 people, chances are that are dualing. whatever class you do pick i’m sure you will become a fine roamer in time.

The best, no, the best at losing i’m defiantly a good contender!

But that how wvw goes you win some you lose some!

Terrahero.9358:

Dajas.4715:

First off this is a condition build so no a thief does not do more condition damage without might! bleeds shy off 200 and burns that tick at 1050, you show me a thief that can obtain that without might.

25 stacks of might is an extra 875 condition damage.

Translated into condition scaling your Bleed ticks for 43 damage more and burn for 218more. Thats the difference between 0 stacks and 25 stacks.

Your bleeds would without all that might still tick for more then 150 and your burn for well over 800.
You have dedicated runes, traits and skills to this build, and it requires the premature use of your heal, your reflect/knockback and your BoB to squeeze out those extra stacks.

Since 9 stacks is pretty easy for anyone, regardless of profession or build, aslong as they have those runes/sigils. You gained 16 extra might over this baseline, assuming you got upto the 25. Or, 160extra burn and 28 extra bleed damage.

250-300dps sounds great, but considering you dont have a heal for the first 20seconds of the fight and your 2 solid CCs are on a cooldown. And thats assuming your fighting an opponent that doesnt have a way of dealing with boons. Because that stack of might is corrupted, removed or stolen, you lost a lot of cooldowns and potentially just empowered your enemy.

I’d say you payed a rather meaty price for a gimmick that can either catch an opponent offguard or backfire. Dont see anything unbalanced about it.

like i said earlier, you have to play smart in this game, of course this might bust is situational, if they can rip your boons off you don’t use it. And as for the cd the only time my hp goes down so quick is when there is a group that jumps you, so ht is never a problem being on cd. as for shield blast, yeah i might save that when facing a s/b ranger or pistol engineer, and as for bob, yeah its ok, but i can quite happily wait 27 sec for it, being a 3 kit engi you are left with so many other options that its not to much of a problem if you have things on cd, and yes the extra damage is well worth the blasts, trust me this build is not a gimmick cos it works so well.

Anyway, the original point was sould we be able to get might that quickly (20 to 30 secs) then sustain it if we choose to.

Tolmos.8395:

And what’s hilarious is that engineer with 25 stacks of might still does less damage than a thief with no stacks of might.

It’s obvious to any engineer that this player didn’t achieve the 25 on his own. It’s possible with certain HGH builds, but this player isn’t running one of those. Those stacks came from external sources.

First off this is a condition build so no a thief does not do more condition damage without might! bleeds shy off 200 and burns that tick at 1050, you show me a thief that can obtain that without might.

And as for it is obvious that i didn’t achieve the might on my own, did you not watch the vid? you obviously know very little about the engineer class.

i defiantly agree that might it can be ripped from you very easily, but i suppose that’s where knowing other classes is vital and would defiantly not recommend doing a massive might burst when facing a necro or a thief with a sword, it’s just about playing smart i suppose!

Soon.5240:

If you are using level 80 Pizza and have 20 points in explosives, why is you Condition Duration not at 60%?

cos the build i play with is the one i posted, in that screen shot i just wonted to see how much damage i could put out, so it was 10/30/0/20/10 just cant wait for the bomb buff so i can put more points into condition damage!

Ameno.6813:

The screenshot doesn’t make any sense, no Elixir’s so you’re obliviously not using HGH, and all your blast finishers are on cool down. Is there some trait that I missed that gives you insta-25 stacks of might? I have to work my kitten off just to get 20 if I’m lucky with full might duration runes and not gimping my build with kittenty HGH/elixirs.

Edit: Or did you just sit there spamming all your blast finishers to 25 stacks for 5 minutes to get it at a crazy duration?

No this is all done solo and is very obtainable, in fact it’s stupidly easy to get which is why i was wondering if we should be able to get this much might so quickly.
This is how i do it anyway. Blast into your fire bomb with acid bomb every time they are off cd this should keep your might between 6 and 9 stacks then before you enter a fight do 4 blasts into the fire bomb with ht/bob/mag shield and acid bomb then enter fight, with the sigil off battle this gives you between 18 and 21 stacks of might, then just blast into your fire bomb again through out the match with the acid bomb and every so often bob ect, then include the hidden flask trait you can stay at around 21 and 25 stacks for most off the match. yes you use your heal ect at the start, but its only a 20 sec cd and well worth the sacrifice. and you can do this in less than a minute, infact once you have gone into combat you can do it in about 20 secs!

edit; better yet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJwX6zNtPJY&feature=youtu.be sorry for the poor quality, my pc is crap!
The wvw build i use

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-V;4cPFw0c-gTFx0;9;4J9-T924-0;304B5;0S73;3l5vgnudbr-ki-M;4VfVjWoXt2-45a010JF2m;5VW-1c-5B;9;9;9;9;7V6s5J

Its hard to say as the only people you get to judge are the ones who release videos, i’ve come across many unheard of skilled engineers, those names you mentioned are good but i’m sure there are much better out there!

when you can get 25 stack in about 30 seconds.
I replied to another thread with this screen shot and after looking at it i just though how kittened it was how quickly it melts other players.

Every time a see the title off this post it reminds me of Keith lemon! “Shatterer”

Hgh is ok, but it traps you into using just one kit, with those runes i would run with nades, bombs and eg, when out of combat blast into your fire bomb every time your you acid bomb is available, you will keep might between 6 and 9 stack permanently!
Then once in combat just rotate all your blast into the fire bomb, this will easily give you between 15 and 25 stacks off might and remember this is all aoe so your whole group benefits, this also gives you much more utility as you also have all the other weapon skill at your disposal and not just nades, win win in my eyes.

I wouldn’t remove it myself as i really like the map design, but the are 3 things i would change. First of i would remove skyhammer, then i would put a wall around the whole map to prevent people being knocked off, and finally i would do away with the force fields on the floor, or at least replace them with traps that cripple/blind ect, cos at the moment they are so god kitten annoying.

I’m loving the new map design, of course it isn’t going to please every one, but as a roamer this is a wet dream come true!

with the original layout i could go half an hour without having a fight (i try not to play prime time, it’s to zergy) but tonight it was non stop 1v1, 2v1, 3v1, 5v5 and so on, it looks like a haven for all us roamers, this is the most fun ive had in a long time in wvw, just a shame about the buff really!