Guild Wars 2

OP’s, evidently.

Fractals are the dungeons where engies shine, as they excel at fighting trash mobs with constant blind fields and superior AoE. Their usefulness diminishes somewhat in boss fights, imho.

I think what it needs is a more visible animation so you can time your dodges. At the moment it’s game over if you’re hit by Moa.

The same goes for all other skills, btw.

“Explorer’s” will be changed to “Assassin’s”, and “Traveler’s” will be changed to “Dire”.
Not sure what will happen to “Wayfarer’s”.

Flame Turret also creates a blind lock when you overcharge it, and you can detonate it in its own smoke field to gain stealth for a few seconds.

I wish I could hop out of combat to heal up while mid-combat.

What’s the point in slowing movement speed though, if the current accepted “best strategy” for most bosses is to lure him into a corner and melee him?

That’s neat and all, but I’m talking about bosses. All things you mentioned are impaired by Unshakable:

“Gains defiant when targeted by crowd control skills. Blind is 10% effective. Weakness and vulnerability last 50% less time.”

How did you get those bomb numbers so high? I’m guessing other classes provided you with 25 Might, Fury, and banner bonuses?

The engineer is good at at killing trash with the bomb kit/other AoE, but how do we go about dealing with the health sponges that are bosses? I feel pretty useless when I just stand in a corner of the room chucking grenades… makes me feel like I should have rolled a better ranged DPS class.

Our conditions are pretty much useless. We can’t stack bleeds, movement-impairing conditions are moot since everyone stays in melee range anyway, our CC is impaired by Defiant and blind only works 10% of the time. Confusion is useless as well, since bosses don’t spam skills, instead opting for high damage skills that instantly down players on a 5-second interval.

How can I feel useful as a dungeoneering engineer?

I liked it, though I must admit that by my thirteenth invasion I kinda hoped it would be over quickly.

I’ll add this event to my list of “That was great, but it would be even more awesome if they’d fixed everything from the beginning.”

Stabilized Armor is 10 in Inventions, not 30 in Tools. You’re thinking of Armor Mods, perhaps? (+50% endurance regen)

I have gotten credit for AFK’ing before. I completed about two events before family showed up at me doorstep, so I hid in a house. When I came back I was disconnected for AFK’ing and my Canceler achievement had progressed by one. When I switched maps afterwards, I could even select my rewards.

You need to choose between the Shoulder Scraps and the Secret Stash.

Have you talked to Emissary Vorrp in Divinity’s Reach?

Shagaz.6209:

Well, she isn’t the most original villain ever but there is one reedeming quality…

She actually succeded in something. So compared to other villains who have 0 or next to 0 successes she doesn’t seem that bad.

Still if she would appear in any serious AAA (or even lower) RPG she would be considered a bad joke.

So far she hasn’t succeeded in anything she attempted. Kidnap the queen? Nope, she was Anise’s illusion and instead she got someone with more panache and aplomb. Oh, and HOBO-TRON.

I don’t like how she graduated from all three colleges. For an asura, it is an incredibly important decision in his/her life which college to join, since it decides your entire future. And here we have Scarlet, without previous mention whatsoever, being possibly the first and only person to attend and GRADUATE from all three colleges. In record time, even.

If that isn’t Villain Sue, I don’t even

Invasions are sticking? That is incredible!

You need to participate in 5 invasions, not close 5 portals. Apparently.

Each hour an invasion event will begin, and also in each overflow of the invaded map created within 10 minutes.

Same thing happened to me on Far Shiverpeaks.

Thanks for the responses, all. Will try to step up my game!

I use a pretty standard 30/10/0/20/10 Rabid build with Bomb Kit, Tool Kit and Rocket Boots to roam in wvw. Melee opponents I can handle with ease, or I can at least keep up with the skilled ones.

Ranged opponents, however, completely roflstomp me. Shortbow Rangers and Staff/GS mesmers for instance just stay comfortably at long range while they pelt me with arrows/illusions/what have you.

How should I deal with opponents that don’t want to engange in close-range combat? My only ranged option is the pistol, and it’s laughably weak without kit support.

I res people even when I’m farming. I just don’t res them the short moment between them dying and me getting ported into the arena.

Result: They think I’m a kitten who won’t res and I get an arena to myself. In the rare chance someone doesn’t port as I fight Dunwell I just find another arena.

Besides, Dunwell was mechanically broken before it was first patched. It’s as it should have been now.

I’m glad Dunwell is working as intended now!

Glue Shot, Bomb and Chill Grenade worked for me, as did the Tool Kit’s Magnet and Box of Nails.

I got the 8 orbs achievement with less than a second left and I can tell you I hardly did it the optimal way.

If you don’t want to play the Gauntlet, throw them away.

Indeed, thieves hardly have a cooldown on their skills. It’s not failsafe though, as Aimed Shot hurts quite a lot if you can’t hide behind your summoned thief because it stepped on a mine.

I still die sometimes when fighting him, and I’m not using reflects since I’m a thief. Still, I make a fine profit.

No, don’t nerf it. It’s the first achievement that actually feels like an accomplishment! Personally, I want more of those in the game, not only in temporary content.

I want to feel a sense of achievement when getting those difficult ones, not relief it’s over.

Most definitely, Mortifer. Your turrets and elite skill completely trivialize this fight, and those don’t scale with your stats.

Standard bad guy syndrome. They’re the mooks we kill, ergo, they’re inept.

Now take allied NPC’s. If they were able to complete events without a player’s help this game wouldn’t be very challenging. Ergo, a whole battalion of Seraph is unable to deal with two bandits stealing apples from a Shaemoor farm.

I am all for Necros using Torches now. It’s rather fitting, especially with the new skin. I imagine it would be used in rituals and such. Perhaps skills with long channeling times that have an effect at the start and when it ends, like Mesmer’s The Prestige.

I tried it, Feedback doesn’t block Kill Shot, even if it blinds.

There’s the Gauntlet.

Things I would like to see changed:

-Remove the root from throwing orbs at Liadri
-Make the arena floors solid as to show red circles more clearly
-Be revived at the ringmaster if you lose a fight
-Make using Gambits more profitable. Right now you get 1 extra box per gambit, so the return of tickets to boxes is always 1 to 1.

I am very impressed with the everything else! Keep it up.

You can turn off post-processing to deal with the flash.

What bothers me personally is that throwing the orb roots you.

Is this a bug? Why implement a condition like that when the only time it could be useful in PvE it’s disabled?

Sword-Shield and Hammer Guardian with Sanctuary and Shield of the Avenger reporting. It’s pretty difficult since almost all our attacks cleave.

The Gauntlet is cool, yeah! I haven’t even gotten to the other content yet.

I found it to be the easiest on my guardian, but then again he’s the only one I have decked out in ascended.

Use Shield of the Avenger and Sanctuary. Wall of Reflection too, but use it sparingly as to not kill the ooze spawns. Use Banish and Shield5 to keep him away from his oozes.

Plot twist: It was blown up by Aetherblades.

There was a pirate near the baskets that sold tickets for outrageous prices. Tadaa.

Here’s me!

Silver, Midnight Blue and Midnight Sky.

Show us the colours, Stracker! I’m using that rifle as well with a combiunation of Midnight Blue and Silver, but this just blows it out of the water.

Yep. Double-press 6 to make it happen.

What do Kiel, Trahearne, and Rabsovich have in common? They’re all bland and offer less epic battles than they should.

I always thought the second heal came from Monk’s Focus. Does it heal twice without the trait?