Guild Wars 2

I’m a terrible altaholic and realized early on that I can’t afford two crafts on one character, so I just abandoned leatherworking on my engineer and stuck to -only- leatherworking on my thief. With one craft per character I can actually level the craft alongside them with virtually no extra grinding for blue mats. Been working fine so far.

FYI, you can also craft high-end runes to get you over that last hump. I didn’t even realize I could craft rare items until after I’d already hit 400.

Mr Zablinx.7239:

It needs things that help engies stay a far distance away.

…Seriously?

The only way it could do that better is if they replaced Blunderbuss with Shadow Strike.

But I like my 25% uptime immobilize.

I would kill small animals for a tesla coil kit.

Almost any skill can be set to autoattack. It’s just that kits don’t have the first skill set to auto by default, you have to CTRL+RMB every time you swap to the kit.

Grenades can’t autoattack because they’re ground-targeted.

punny.9210:

Bleed can be AOE if u take pistol pieces

But the explosion doesn’t cause bleeding like it says. “explodes bleeding nearby targets”

It only explodes for damage.

It’d be cool if there was some kind of “bonus” fight against Fallen Zhaitan. We’re never going to get a real fight when we’re dealing with a half-mile dragon but they could still pull something similar to the zone bosses with his fallen remains or something. Imagine a Shadow Behemoth on steroids, dragging its mangled torso slowly around a huge zone and screaming and summoning undead everywhere and still putting up a hell of a fight because it’s a gatdang elder dragon.

EDIT: I just realized how perfectly ironic it would be to fight “Fallen” Zhaitan after seeing his “Risen” minions forever. Literally falling against his will and getting torn apart by lesser beings seems like a fitting end to the one who forces others to rise against their will and fight for him.

“Also side note – you have to be really really careful with the engineer when it comes to balancing, we can get absurdly powerful really easy because of the flexibility of the class.”

This is the big thing. We have so gatdang many skills and abilities that interact and chain with each other that individual ones can’t be too powerful, lest the whole package become overwhelmingly powerful in the right hands. Unfortunately, that also makes each one seem underwhelming and the simpler builds tend to perform a little under par.

We’re forever going to be the most polarizing class because of that. Difficult to balance at all, and nearly impossible to balance for both sides at once.

I don’t know about you, but I can’t fire bullets from my other gun because it’s built to shoot fire instead.

I’d love to see Poison Dart Volley un-nerfed so it actually hits beyond point-blank range. That one change would make the pistols a totally solid mid-range weapon. Wouldn’t hurt if they also fixed Explosive Shot to splash the bleed like it says it does, maybe tack on another second of bleed or so.

“What are you talking about??? 4/5 abilities on Mesmers long sword abilities are 1200 range.”

That’s exactly my point. Someone new to mesmer is going to slap on a greatsword so they can SPIN TO WIN like everyone else he’s seen with a big ol’ sword, and be surprised and confused as to why they’re shooting laser beams instead. Likewise, a new engineer is going to wonder why his SNIPOR RIFUL has a 1000-range auto and does most of its damage at point-blank range. The weapons are good at what they do, they’re just used very differently from the stereotypical greatsword or rifle.

BTW I’m not saying the rifle’s perfect, 3 and 5 can be crazy laggy and 1 still feels lackluster even with added piercing. I still like the idea of an inverted “longbow” effect, where it deals bonus damage at closer ranges. That would add some much-needed damage to the rifle and also make it VERY CLEAR that this is a “melee” weapon.

If they add a hard mode, it should reward no tokens at all and just give progress on a special title track. Bosses might have new and more tricks, or just plain new bosses.

This would be ONLY for people who are truly in it for the challenge. The gear will continue being relatively difficult but accessible to the majority of players, while adding something for the upper echelon to strive for.

I wish they’d get around to fixing explosive shot so it does what it says. I think it’s a mere 2 seconds because it’s supposed to splash the bleeding, but it doesn’t do that, it only splashes the damage. Better fire rate would be nice too.

Zale.9645:

The flaw in their logic is that how long they think dungeons should take to complete and how long they actually take can be very different. The fact is that some dungeon content does not take an hour to complete or even close.

They’ve said that if legit runs are tripping the DR, they can dial it back on a per-path basis to accommodate players.

Your thoughts on each class lines up with mine pretty well, so I’ll suggest an elementalist. They start off kinda slow because you have so much crap to unlock, but once you hit level 15 or so they really get fun. Pick up Arcane Shield and Armor of Earth as soon as you can so you can double-dagger without imploding, because it’s an absolute blast.

It lasts only a second, maybe not even that. Really gotta mash them keys.

Also you… are using the healing turret toolbelt, right? I hate to ask but it can’t hurt. The elixir gun one doesn’t make a field.

Fix: Kits and their “bundle” issues. If for some awful reason that’s completely intended, then at least let us save our autoattack status per bundle.

Change: Replace or completely overhaul Elixir X. Just… get it out of here. It’s unpredictable and breaks cast too easily and is horrible horrible lazy design. I have no problem with the concept of a reliable source of stability and/or huge all-around buff, but the execution we got is just gross.

Honestly, bosses are probably too easy to last. Once you “get” their trick or two they’re just a giant sack of meat to beat on for 5-10 minutes. Graveyard zerging is just stupid and needs to go. Put a door before each boss and a waypoint just outside that door.

My only real complaint is when the trash comes in giant packs that all have CC, or when a mob has some kind of rapid-fire CC. There’s not much you can do against that sheer volume of roots/fears/knockdowns even if they do have good telegraphing, which they often don’t.

To everyone complaining about mobs being immune to CC, very few are totally immune, usually giants. If everyone in the group fires a stun/daze/knockback at the same time, everything else WILL get disabled, and you can even blow off their Unshakeable stacks ahead of time so you can get by with just the last important one. If anything, pure CC builds are OP in dungeons, while glass cannon and tanky are underperforming.

Brangoire is one of the fun fights. Get someone who can cast AoEs behind them and have them pull all the spiders they can.

5 PM server time.

TheRamosOnline.2670:

Point is, Engineer is meant to be the techy-long range class, but it constantly forces us into a dangerous melee range.

After carefully perusing our weapon skills, I’m pretty confident in saying that we are NOT meant to be a long-range class. If we were, we’d probably have a long-range weapon. If you say “guns should be long-range,” I’m going to point to the mesmer’s greatsword again, and then maybe to the guardian’s staff. At worst we’re short-range, at best we’re whatever the hell range we want because we have some absurd range control.

Rangers and thieves are the only ones that don’t do damage with their impact, and they might pull anyway. I can’t remember if non-damaging CC pulls aggro.

Big ol’ Bomb or Smoke Bomb would make a very nice replacement.

Honestly, if people are rolling their way through the whole dungeon with a static build I think that’s the thing that needs fixing, not the opposite. Countering your opponent is half the battle.

The only one that REALLY bugs me is Elixir U, with the crippling downside you can’t prepare for and the anti-ranged wall that fails 1/3 of the time. All the others are so minor that I can’t bring myself to care, the base elixir is still useful and the toolbelt skill is still a decent buff and Cleaning Formula/HGH delivery system.

Kohler took us four tries, and I’m honestly kind of ashamed it took us that many. First try was gibbing his buddies, second was dying to him, third was trying to spam mass stability, and fourth was simply dodging his GIANT GLARING YELLOW ANIMATION while stacking cripple on him. I could probably solo him if I wanted to spend that long whittling away at his health.

“So 3 of 5 of our attacks are close range attacks, despite engineers using a rifle wanting to be long range.”

I can’t accept this argument after seeing what Mesmers do with greatswords.

Stop asking them to ruin an amazing weapon just so you can play sniper with five skills that all do the exact same thing plus different conditions. If you want that we have grenades.

TheRamosOnline.2670:

Elixirs are TOO situation and too random. Other classes can find a set up of skills that let them tackle most situations, but for an Engineer to be efficient we need to change our elixirs before every fight.
In certain places, this isn’t possible, such as WvW and in Dungeons.
This makes us pretty kitten useless.

It’s hard to explain, but you’ll understand if you try an Engineer to Lv30 at least.

Cool assumptions, bro. I change my whole BUILD multiple times per dungeon and tweak it often in WvW. We’re allowed to do that for a reason.

For the record, I do think that a couple elixirs could use a bit of normalization, particularly the thrown ones. Regen is nowhere near as valuable as vigor or protection. I don’t want a @#$%ing stealth wall, I want a bullet-stopping wall. I don’t care how nice chaos armor is.

Rocket Boots’s flight distance is affected by roots and slows, and it doesn’t remove conditions until -after- it launches the user. This includes cripple, chill, immobilize, and other launches (particularly the Elixir Gun’s leap), all of which affect a skill designed to counter them.

The only thing broken about Rocket Boots is that it removes cripple/chill/immobilize AFTER it launches you, instead of before. That makes it a terrible idea to use on those conditions because you go nowhere, and now your lesser CC is a knockdown.

Fix that and it’ll be borderline OP.

Almost everyone has a trait like this. The extra effect sucks for nearly every class, it’s really only good for taking shortcuts in WvW and other hilly areas.

I don’t think there’s a way to get rid of the kit backpacks, no. It’s the only thing that visually displays the unarmed ones like the grenades or medkit.

Spawn.7014:

The better question is why was this game released with so many freaking problems and exploits.

What can a million dedicated powergamers and idiots do better than the most dedicated internal testing team?

Find bugs.

What are neither of them ever going to do?

Find all of the bugs.

Guess what takes time to fix?

Supply Crate is awesome, but the Mortar needs a range boost and Elixir X badly needs to be straight replaced with something that isn’t unreliable and a complete cop-out.

As for the rest, we do need a LOT of fixes and some tweaking, but overall I’m not too scared for our future. Iron out all the bugged traits andkittenlet weapon stats affect kits and we’ll do fine. A more pedestrian ranged weapon than our grenade bag would be nice, but please god not at the expense of our rifle. That thing has the greatest weapon bar in the game.

Nobody can swap skills in combat, what about elixirs makes them special? I mean, if other classes could swap signets or something in combat and we had no equivalent then sure, but this is just filling my brain with WHY.

Bregah.7365:

If a player runs every single path in every dungeon once, and only once, and exploit/bug-free, but back to back, then DR should absolutely never kick in.

Ever.

Bugs aside, this is the only real problem I have here. The cross-dungeon DR is especially stupid because the other 7 dungeons aren’t getting me any closer to a reward for that first dungeon. If I have time after a few dungeon runs to farm some karma, I can do that without penalty, so why isn’t the same thing true if I choose to instead run a -different- dungeon? They’re totally separate reward tracks, why would they even interact like that? That’s like if I managed to legitimately hit the dungeon DR, but when I go to do events that same DR carries over into my event rewards. It makes no sense.

I feel like this whole problem is just people getting spoiled by the big fat first reward. If they just set dungeons to give 5 tokens per run with no DR whatsoever, people would still farm all day, and they wouldn’t kitten about DR because their reward is ALWAYS small (they’d probably kitten about small rewards instead). But suddenly a much larger portion of the population has little hope of ever seeing dungeon gear. That sucks for way more people than this system does.

That’s not swiftness, it’s the Slick Shoes toolbelt skill Super Speed. It’s 5 seconds of “out of combat with swiftness” speed, even in combat. It says it gives double, but that’s only accurate when in combat. Out of combat it’s equal to swiftness.

Swiftness works in combat for everyone, it increases your speed by 33%. Your base speed is just lower, so the total bonus isn’t as big as it is out of combat.

Veracor.9175:

I would prefer if this boss had a waypoint outside the door, and the door was closed during the fight. This would accomplish:

1). Take out graveyard zerging from certain paths.
2). GW1 style fight where you had to go at it until you wiped, and couldn’t trickle people back in.
3). Remove the 5-minute journeys of empty passageways when people have to waypoint back.

I think this would make the encounter a lot more fun without really changing the difficulty.

I’m a little surprised this isn’t already a thing with every dungeon boss. Removing the downtime after failure is one of the single best things you can do to cut down on frustration, without actually making the fight any easier.

Expecting to learn AND down a raid-level boss in just a couple hours is a delusion. This thing looks like a fun fight to be quite honest, I at least hope I get to see it in its full glory before you all get it nerfed.

Dungeon rewards drop off by 66% after your first run, why isn’t anyone outraged about that? Why should I be punished for running twice by having my tokens cut by over half? Where is the justice in the world and rabble rabble rabble rabble rabble

All this kittening is just sad. Have some friggin’ patience, the armor vendors aren’t going anywhere.

Nothing here is actually messing with the economy at large. Besides, you’re talking about legendaries. That’s the one thing that NEVER needs to be in the same sentence as “normal players.”

Coated Bullets only affects the first two skills.

Clumped targets WILL take exponentially more damage since each one explodes to hit the others, but you’ll only cause one stack of bleeding per target.

It’s going to have “max” stats, but it’s still only one weapon and won’t always have the best stats for your build. Besides, the important part is the totally unique name/skin, not the fact that it’s some kind of end-all weapon.

The only one I know off the top of my head is the Orrian shield that drips water.

Your “home” borderlands has a set of crafting stations in the citadel, I believe it was on the east side.

Have one person dedicated to pulling aggro from as many spiders as possible, and running in a wide circle either leaving mobile-cast aoes behind them, or having allies do it. My first time through we wiped once and then I pulled out my bomb kit and played Singed for five minutes while my team killed the otherwise uneventful boss.

Also bring stunbreakers so the fears don’t let the spiders catch you.

I imagine black lion chests will have a loot table similar to Gifts of the Traveler. The nice stuff will be rare but seen, and the really REALLY good stuff will be practically unheard of.

Because then it will become perfectly predictable and either miss 8000% of the time, or get sped up and nerfed.

It does feel weird having to fire in bursts. But if that happened please god turn down the noise, I’m slowly going insane as is.

Weirwynn.2390:

I can’t speak for flamethrower builds, but vulnerability from grenade builds is absolutely huge. I typically maintain 15-20 stacks at full spam, which is 15-20% more damage—great solo, even better for groups.

That’s a different trait doing that. It’s pretty nuts, yeah.

That trait is actually also where I got the mistaken 5-second figure, thank you for catching that. It’s still a far better boost than it’s being credited simply by having a duration at all, and -especially- because it helps the whole team.

Your math is based in wrong assumptions. You’d be right if it increased the damage of -only- the very next hit by 1%, but it’s a vuln stack. You’re buffing ALL of your hits for the next 5 seconds, PLUS those of anyone else who happens to be hitting it. Any crappy flamethrower spec (aka mine with my crap gear) is spewing stacks like candy, and even one stack equals Sitting Duck over time. More often than not it’s 2-3 stacks. For the whole group. Sitting Duck is for assassin builds or when you aren’t putting out the sheer volume of crits that a flamer does.

I also think Incendiary Powder is better than you give it credit for, but you make a good point on the chunk of stats you can get without it.

It may improve a bit, but you have to remember that boss size and the… dynamicness… of their fights are an inverse relationship, and the difference in scale here is off the charts. You’re -never- going to fight one of the elder dragons head-to-head. They’re at least a mile long, and nothing man-portable is going to do a kitten thing to them until some asura invents us up a big ol’ bag of Dr. D. E. Machina’s All-Purpose Phlebotinum Bombs.

The best you can do at that point is a break-the-shield-generators boss with artillery firing in the background, or pull some Gurren Lagann shiz and look stupid as hell because your game is not Gurren Lagann. Even the dragon lieutenants are too big to be a fair fight, so instead they get to stand directly in front of your ultra-particle-mutilator and yell and summon things until it’s charged up. To Anet’s credit, the fights LOOK amazing, but they kinda shot themselves in the foot as far as mechanics go.