Guild Wars 2

Like Forty Seven Ninjas.6982:

Haha, yeah, not gonna lie, I definitely targeted you. I see an engineer that has their kitten together (you killed me before that near garrison with a larger group) and I wanted to try and match skills .

I didn’t know the rest of them were behind me, I’ll try to make it a more personal encounter next time .

ahahah we shall try!

But I rarely go out without my elem bodyguard! Bring some friends we shall dance togheter :P

Like Forty Seven Ninjas.6982:

Kardiamond.6952:

To the [PD] guild,

Why all the hate? Go for my Elem friend from time to time

I don’t like being the target of 3-4 pull in and then mass stun/supply drop. :P

Are you by any chance the tall female norn engi in [SOLO]?

Gotta be me, I’m the only member of my guild

I think I remember you, I don’t fight other engineer often in WvW.

I tried to fight you, but kitten your friend keep coming and coming

My Elem friend was just laughing at me on TS.

“Run boy! ruuuun!”

Then I would receive a supply drop on the head, and 4-5 enemy jump on me.

We had a hard time getting you guys to over extend, you guys did a good job

@Ostricheggs.

You are right about the cancel grenade thing.

But about the rest, I don’t feel I have any issue with fast cast grenade. After a while, you get used to it, and you don’t need the target anymore. You’ll know where they land, even if you are aiming at weird place.

And I feel much more faster since I switched to fast cast. You lose what? .2 or .3 sec a cast without it? I’m pretty sure it can make a huge difference.

To the [PD] guild,

Why all the hate? Go for my Elem friend from time to time

I don’t like being the target of 3-4 pull in and then mass stun/supply drop. :P

@Zaqq

What? Mesmer the hardest?

Engineer say Hi.

And balance shouldn’t revolve around skill cap. I play my engineer because it’s a high cap class and a multikit have a lot to micro manage/time. I never get bored during a fight. But I don’t play my class to be more powerful.

If you balance the game around that, any competitive team will only play the most complicated class to have a higher skill cap. That wouldn’t be a good thing.

By the way, I was pretty bored and was looking at the survey. Am I the only one that saw that?

Man if Tyler is really, really maining an Engineer, he got to have a talk with the balance team.

Not because we are bad, we are actually really good.

But what about the kit refinement nerf? What was that?

@Hydeaut & Oxstar

They were too strong for Anet.

So you have the choice of :

10 points traits
20 second global cooldown + individual cooldown
SE and Grenade Barrage remove for something weaker.
Still lackluster 30 point tools trait.

or

30 points traits
individual cooldown
All KR effect stay the same.
Having a good GM trait for once.

I choice the second choice anytime. Sure you can keep it at 10 point and nerf it, but will your “options” still be viable?

Chaba.5410:

That recent state of the game video has a “Tyler” and reference was made to him playing engineer.

Like someone said previously, I’m sure they all played engineer in sPvP. Like they played every class.

But I highly doubt he is maining one, or playing it often.

When they talked about Engineer, Tyler didn’t say too much ether. He only spoke during the turret spart saying some engineer prefer that style of play.

And if he was maining one, he should have never let Karl say that thing about 24k 100nade and he would not have let them broke our kit refinement

@Wolf

I don’t see anymore hostility in this forum then others classes.

Just check the necromancer or ranger forum. Ranger have been making fun of Jon Peters for 2 month because he said a big patch were coming for them, and finaly they received underwater buff.

And yet they have a developper working closely with the communty.

Anet guys are used to have hostile people on the forum, we are on internet after all.

Since january, it feels like Anet stopped to communicate with the players. Well they rarely do it. I feel like it’s a mistake.

And wolf, I was poiting to the fact that it would be cool to have an Anet dev playing Engineer. I personnaly don’t think they have one, because of the things I named before.

Well Kark McClain took this as an example. And they read a lot the sPvP forum.

So yeah I’m pretty sure they took this as an example for the nerf. This is the only time I saw a 24k damage 100nade. And it wasn’t real.

Well I don’t know if it’s a must. They usually do that with there free time. But it would be a really good thing.

Just like when the balance guys of Anet said we could hit for 24k with 100nade combo from a random photoshopped screen shot on the pvp forum. Any engineer knew the screenshot was fake, yet they didn’t.

I’m a bit bored this afternoon, and I was wondering : Do we have someone from Anet staff playing Engineer?

Jon Peters seems to play mesmer,
1-2 other dev are playing thief and warriors,
Robert Hrouda plays Ranger,
ect..

I was wondering, does anyone remember if we have some dev playing our classe? The only thing I remember, is they stated they once played a 5 man engineer team in sPvP “as a joke team”. Wasn’t cool.

I’m also wondering because of how they nerfed kit refinement in the worse way, saying it was too strong for an adept trait yet we don’t have any good master/GM trait. Also how a dev took 10 minutes to debug our medkit trait and didn’t seem to know about it, while it was bugged since release and well known.

On the other side, I also think it quit cool to have a dev following the class and reacting to bug/demands. When mesmer had trouble with clone, Jon Peter would communicate with them all day long and day to day debug. Also Robert Hrouda have a really good communication with the ranger forum, and share tweaks and resolve bugs with them. I love that guy

Do we have a silent dev roaming with an engineer and cursing turrets?

What do you think guys?

P.S : I’m bored this post doesn’t have any real points. And I know most class doesn’t have a dedicated Dev.

P.S 2 : Maybe we can send a cake to Robert Hronda like necromancer to convince him to play an engineer.

PearlGore.7419:

Shatter does not hit that hard to begin with so whatever.

What?

Yeah, I don’t understand Anet.

They say our kit refinement is too strong for a 10 points traits, yet we have garbage as GM traits.

I think it’s only logical to put this kit refinement in a GM spot and not nerf it.

It’s the only trait in tools that deserve to be a GM traits.

Everything else deserve to be a 10 points traits, except maybe the lower cooldown on toolkit + cripple and the static discharge.

@eldain stenlund

You took engineer, used the simplest build around, and think we are more efficient then a well played Elem?

I think you missed the point.

If you want to play engineer at 100% efficiency, you will be swaping kit each 2-4 second. That’s like playing an Elementalist without swapping attunement.

The different between Elem and Engineer is engineer have some low skill cap floor build. But both class have a really high skill celling.

You should prolly play a guardian or a warrior.

Elem and Engineer are for people that want to works hard during fights. I don’t think I auto attacked more then once during a fight. And I love it.

Coaking devise should work, I use it in WvW and it works. Maybe you attack when you are immob, so it reveal you?

And the cooldown is really low.

Automated response → like google said. That’s why this trait is pretty much unused. Especially since it’s in the since trait line as Formula 409.

Man It must be a challenge to play on a laptop without mouse hehe. :P

Kit refinement is the worse engineer nerf since release.

Not because it’s make us bad, it doesn’t. But because within all the option they had to balance kit refinement, they chose the worse and nerfed multikit engineer, who didn’t deserve that.

Zaragoz→

I’m roaming a lot with a group of 2 Elem (both tanky and hard to kill) and a thief. I’m always, always focus fired. Elem and thief are annoying to kill, so they focus the little engineer in the back.

I use a modified version of my demented build for that. I would say overall, mask build might be a bit better, since it does more damage and have more condition removal, but I mostly use it to disengage when under pressure, and AoE in group fight.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqal0pic38ynF1LJyIFdmoFqA+JqQl95hclWRIA;ToAgyCpo0yolQLrWOtkaN8YuA

Give it a try. You play it a bit like Mask build.

Few tips :

If your ally got blast finisher, use smoke bomb just before a fight to stack a good amount of stealth and abuse culling. If you can find a thief that spam blast finisher, it’s perfect.

During team fight, you can open up with slick shoe if they are grouped up, and stun the entire group for 2-4 second. Really nice to stack some damage.

When pressured in a fight, use slick shoe, glue, or super speed to have some space and heal. Don’t worry about using your super speed before retreating, it will reset if you are in trouble.

To escape, use your glue bomb, glue shop, nail, big ol bomb, super speed. All those abilities should make you escape nearly any average zerg.

I don’t know if you will have enought damage with your guardian, but 12 stack of confusion can hit really hard. And you should survive mostly anything.

@Evilzara

Since we lost BP and NSP, our thread is so boring. It lack any kind of emotion or actions.

So I think half the ART poster transfered to your thread or NSP thread.

Broliss Rock for ever <3

DR, If you fall to T6, bring your coffee. This match up is boring as hell ahaha.

P.S : Please stop making points, or we are going to be stuck in T6 snooze fest for another week.

Don’t be defensive about it, I only wanted to get more informations, to knwo if I missed something.

If you like it so be it! It’s just not my style!

Wolf explained it well, it leave like a small AoE of stun behind you got 1 sec. Really useful when people are chasing you. Especially thief that try to HS you around. And it’s incredible in team fight. Just run around the enemy and stun them all. You can combo it with double speed for more efficiency.

@Oozo

I didn’t mean it wasn’t effective. It’s a good build in WvW.

Maybe I’m used to be an engineer, but seeing the video and the guardian just running around, waiting to be in range, and use mostly the same skills all fight long.

Doesn’t seem really dynamic no? Especially since there no weapon swap.

But I see them in every roaming group now, so it must be worth it.

At Least SoS is there to troll a bit, maybe this thread will wake up a bit.

I don’t remember when was the last time our match up thread was soooo boring.

DH IoJ, don’t you have any troll? Any emotional guy? Any Crazy players?

testpig.5018:

[VIDEO] Ascension [WAR] does melee train!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs-clYZQ--4&feature=youtu.be

featuring ebays [ECHO]

Man is it me or playing a hammer guardian looks really boring?

No weapon switch, only about 5-7 skills you use in a fight. How is it? I played a bit in spvp to learn them, but nothing serious. But by the look of the video, I’m not sure I would like to play it any longer.

Luiz Swordbreaker.6547:

I don’t understand why all the hate against T1… you see, it’s not our fault that the lack of updates drove 90% of the WvW players away.

Most players that moved to T1, did so they could actually have some fights and competition , instead of risking playing on empty maps and PvDoring. Even so, playing on JQ NA, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen a queue on more than 2 maps, except for reset night, and we are usually outmanned on at least one of the BLs.

I’m not in tier 1 and I always have people to fights and I never PvDoor.

I don’t think anyone hate Tier 1, but if you stack in this tier, don’t post a thread crying about the higher queue.

With more population come more queues.

vinceftw.5086:

This is not entirely on topic but wth I’ve tried engineer several times, always deleted it because I didn’t find it fun. I recently made another one and now it is a lot more fun than it used to be! This is because I got better. Engineer is a hard class to play but very fun

Now what I wanted to ask, could you give me an idea of your FT build? I like the wepaon but haven’t found a great build for spvp yet outside of 100nades/ I’d really like to use the FT in pvp though.

Personally, I’m not a big fan of FT in pvp/WvW.

Especially roaming with FT is really hard.

The issue is, when you build and focus around FT, I feel more like Support DPS then anything else.

I’m pretty good to do crazy damage if I have no pressure. I can Net + Fire blast people for around 10k damage if I don’t detonate it.

But If I get pressured, It gets ugly. Especially Good warrior/guardian/Thief. Thief are really hard to hit with FT, and you are mostly better with just using rifle.

It’s my personal opinion, and that was with a glassy FT build. I’m sure there are better build around. But I think most player use FT only for the Air blast.

P.S : Sorry I went out of subject a bit!

Well Vuln doesn’t increase condition damage, so it mostly direct damage increase.

Not sure what your question is

They come from PvE when we are winning.

I heard DR have an issue with around the clock coverage. So I hope next week Ar goes up a tier, and DR come dance with you. DH and DR might have a good match up!

@Merkenary

Aaa didn’t know you were from BP.

Well if they have less people then us, they should have fun in t6. DH have a pretty good population on prime time.

Fraeg.9837:

Kardiamond.6952:

Not sure Anvil Rock will have a better population then DR. And they prolly have more WvW guild then us.

But we have our alliance with BP. We will 2on1 so everything should be good.

Plan and phase.

Plans and phases
Plans and phases

Years of experience in many other games

Plans and phases
Plans and phases

Kill death ratio

More Plans and more Phases is needed.

@Merkenary

Where does your informations come from? And do you mean WvW population? We are mostly a tPvP server.

@Wizardauz

Don’t worry about outnumbering, we are pretty used to that. I die often, and I don’t mind if we can have a good fight. Tho I’m pretty good to run away, had a lot of training with Zergy My team is between 2-4 players, rarely 5.

For setting up duel, I’m personally not a fan. My friends might be up to it. But I really like the open world pvp for the unexpected part. I get bored of set up fight.

See you on the field, maybe this week!

Ahahah really good idea.

The only issue is : You can prolly do the same damage with a single grenade barrage.

Still love the combo, but I’m not sure it’s really useful.

Not sure Anvil Rock will have a better population then DR. And they prolly have more WvW guild then us.

But we have our alliance with BP. We will 2on1 so everything should be good.

Plan and phase.

Well it’s pretty close. We are 3 points apart.

please DR go PvE a bit

@Punkins

Sadly I don’t think you can balance class over the skill needed to use it.

I mean, You can’t make Engineer or Elem superior because they have a higher skill caps then others. If they would do that, all the competitive players would roll those 2 classes.

I don’t mind being as efficient as a thief when I have to use 25 skills and he uses 4-5 skills.

I mean, I play engineer for this : It’s never boring. You always have something different to use.

But Some buff to our unused traits/skills would be great, like every class.

Thiefz.3695:

I’m doing this for a potential wvw roaming. I’m about to make my exotic shield and pistol so I’m trying to work out the best build. I run a condition primary with prec/tough/vitality/power sub. I find that the pistol’s rate of fire keeps the stacks from vuln and bleed when using a sigil of frailty and I paired that with a sigil of strength for might stacks. Since you crit fast, I can build 4 stacks of might. I just am not seeing anything great from the rifle AT ALL. I’m also not seeing too much from burn, I get a 733 tick of kitten seems.

EDIT: Sigils of fire and air run fairly expensive on TP.

Frailty and Strenght share the same cooldown, so I wouldn’t recommend pairing the 2.

And choice between rifle and pistol come back to : Do you want to be condition or direct damage?

What utility are you going to use? Because stacking vulneribility when you are mostly using condition isn’t really a thing I would push.

With those gears, you are better with pistol. Rifle is a power/crit gun.

I’m so looking for this Match up.

Not because we will be competitive, we will prolly finish last since BP is usually superior to us.

But I’m sure all the roaming group in AR (DUNK, EVIL, STAR, FOOL) will be happy to have some action.

Ebay will be new blood for us, so it will be a good time to test ourselves. I hope you have more roamers then DH and IoJ!

And BP, even tho they don’t have many roamers, are still always there to bring the action. Broliss Rock right?

Sekz, I remember you from NSP, but I didn’t really fight you guys since most of the times you were wayy too many for us. And for Echo, I hope you don’t always bring 10 players. It counts for a zerg for us.

P.S : I’m sad that we won’t be able to fight DR. Judging from the forum, that had a good amount of roamer!

Can’t wait!

Well if you add sigil of frailty, for sure you will have more stack. But is it worth it?

Are you going for team damage? or Solo damage.

Because the DPS add of Sigil of Air or Fire is usually a better option.

If pet cast time is too long is a good question, but about the argument given by OP.

It doesn’t make any sense. What kind of argument is that? “Others class F are instant, not our, it’s unbalanced”?

They are completly different mecanics. I don’t know how you can compare them.

And just for the fun, many aren’t instant. You are just making up facts.

At least 50% of toolbelt abilities of engineer have a delay.

Warrior have a delay on their burst.

Maybe the Death shroud cast is instant, but 50% of DS skills have delay.

Stop making up facts. And please don’t compare apple and orange. Some pets delay need works, but don’t bring useless arguments.

The vuln stack traits is not the best, except maybe with a 30 point explodion and grenade, or a flamethrower.

With a rifle, the attack speed won’t stack much. Without any condition duration, Vuln stay on the target for 3 sec. That’s hard to stack a lot of them. 3% damage increase.

Swiftness is also pretty useless if you use speedy kit, like 50% of engineer.

I would be curious to see this build

Never liked the blindness of rifle, tried it many time, but it would just not help me really much.

I heard ET and FC needed players.

I like the hammer idea,

but having a set of weapon with around 10 abilities, many combo field and combo finisher, a condition removal, stun breaker, knockback and mobility seeems a bit too much for me.

Hey guys from T1-T2,

Go back to your thread for server bashing.

This is not the subject of the thread, stop trying!

melodey.4652:

Kardiamond.6952:

Also a good fight in DH BL, we were trying to hit and run DH from behind when they were trying to siege the only IoJ tower south west. Really good fight happened after.

That was fun, I enjoyed that hot mess of a IOJ/DH/AR party at redbriar. I was the upscale mesmer turning you guys into moas. ^__^ I had to smile when I strayed too far from my fellow DH and an AR necro yoinked me onto the bridge and I subsequently got my kitten kicked, and then was simultaneously finished by [SOLO] and some [STAR]. Ganked with ~style

Yeah I think I remember you. I hate mesmers, even upleveled mesmer.

But you still got the tower, we were not proud of us :P

I really wonder why LordByron is playing an elementalist.

Should we go on to explain every downside of every class just to justify having something?

The question is : Should vapor form be able to use gate?

I personaly think not. And I know you won’t agree with me, because in your opinion, you think Elem are in a bad spot and need better downed state.

Even the last poll on the pvp forum, 60% of the vote are saying Elem are still #1 class.

I think removing acces to gate from vapor form wouldn’t make your class any less strong.

It would only remove the gimmick abilities of fighting without any risk when close to your tower.

“gimme leather armor and mid hp and its a deal.
Or maybe an elixir that instantly revives me when i m downed….”

Why not downed state for downed state? Is there an issue with losing yours? You said it, Elem have the worse number 1 and the worse number 3. Why don’t you trade it with us.

And if you want Elixir R over vapor form in downed state, it’s anytime for me.

Hi there,

Just wanted to point out there a discution about DS fall damage in the WvW forum.

Come my minions, come defend one of the only Necromancer escape ability!!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/wuvwuv/Avoiding-fall-damage/first

So necromancer have one nearly unique ability with their class mecanism, and it should be removed because other don’t have it?

What’s the meaning of it?

One of the only way a necromancer can run from a fight, is with this ability.

@Intigo

Would you trade your RTL for the ability to DS/fall ??

I’m sure necromancer would be happy to trade it.

It’s one of their only escape ability.

Give them a break.