Guild Wars 2

As an Engineer I can say it is our best weapon against a necro. Have have already a really hard time against condi necros. If you nerfed this skill we lose 10 of 10 fights against a necro.

I think Glue Shot is generelly too weak.

I agree with your idea. Maybe it should also fly faster.

I play at low skill level soloQ and had yesterday someone with a SD build gadget build as far as I could see. He used the AED / goggles/ram and tool kit.

He died in seconds because he had no condition removal but it was fun to see how the AED worked. I had a lot of 1vs1 against him. I play your build @ chaith and was at close and he pushed to me every time. I guess he was testing this build. He died every time and because of AED it looked like he died every time twice.

Based on this I guess AED makes no sense because of no condtion removal for gadgets. Generelly gadgets are too weak , like turrets.

I love the streams (teldo, ostricheggs, five gauge). If a tournament is going on I love for Blu for presenting top games on a top entertaining level.

Play the five guage build. It is ok vs warrior. Most of them are stopable in 1vs1 with that build.

Teldos build is not so squishy. Yesterday he was playing with rocket boots. Still no stunbreaker but he played well in a 1vs2 against two warriors.

I would like the skill if it gives you protection every time. With the random stuff, high CD I have to take 2 trait it to make it useful or 3 to get HGH.

Do not get me wrong. I do not think we (engineers) are really in trouble. I play also every day Engineer but not on a high skill level (I was top 400 but lost several games and now I am out of the list. Played ~400 games in soloQ and ~200 in teamQ).

I play the Five Gauge build and I am fine even with hambows or thiefs. I am only in trouble with necros. But for me a 1on1 is always a close fight. Its not that I rule the world if I face someone in 1on1.

Maybe it is because English is not my first language. I do not think that the Engineer is soo bad and QQ all day. I think we are ok. I only say that we are not the strongest class in my point of view. I think warrior, spirit ranger, guardian and necro are in a better situation. I guess we are with thiefs on one level at the moment. You are happy to have 1 thief in your team. But if you have 2 or 3 you are in trouble. Same for engi.

+1 really weakest heal skill by far. Random boons. Bad cooldown. Long casttime. Weak toss.

Based on a similar thead in engineer forum I like to know the top 3 enemies for your class.

For me:

Class: Engineer

Worst enemy:
1: MM Necro
2: Condtion Necro
3: Spirit Ranger

kekuso.5837:

When I’m frozen in a block of ice.

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tattoohead.3217:

I’ll be honest, I skimmed the post but I think I got the point. And no… Just no, engi is one of the strongest classes pvp right now and they are just fine in pve. Sure the CoF war, guard, mes combo still reigns on high but realistic engi does very well in dungeons.

if you play tPvP and you are on a point. I guess you never scream in your voice tool: I need help badly because an Engi is coming to my point and I will die.

There is a thread like “worst enemy for engis”. I guess no other profession has an engineer in this worst enemy list.

Simply because the engi is at the moment not the strongest class. We are able to decap points, to be medium good bunker or to do good AOE damage to support team fights. But our damage is nerfed badly and we need some defensive abilities because of the meta so the damage of an engineer is not that high.

Engi is simply not one of the strongest classes in PvP right now. We are not as bad as ele is. But we see the bottom of the list.

AI Pets belong to this game. Pets are in every game and that is ok. But what is not ok is that it takes longer to kill a pet as a player. And some classes have 3+ pets and a short recast timer.

I hope for an adjust meta patch soon. I do not want a complete new meta. But they could look at the changes for some classes and judge them. I mean 5% less here and 5% more somewhere else would help a lot.

Is a build for Engineer existing to beat a MM necro and a condition necro in sPVP?

Very good news. /clap

The problem is if we go for condition build we die to necro/spirit ranger/warrior but we are ok in teamfights and can hold a point for a long time.

If we go for a power build we die to mesmer/thief/warrior (and ele if played) and are in a teamfight less more useful (lower damage over time to guardian, we die more often)

If we go for a bunker/decap build we do not die but we are not useful in team fights and we never kill something.

@ Chaith could you update your builds in your twitch channel? The power build on your asura is not the one you posted in the comments in twitch.
And please please steam more often

And people would hit “I am ready” more often. +1

really strong in 1vs1.

My Enemy list:
-Condi Necros
-MM Necros
-Spirit Ranger
….
-Good Thiefs. Phantasm mesmer are not the big problem. Also warrior are ok for me

Against a good necro we have at the moment a real hard time. They wait until we have 75% and get our Elixir B. Then corrupt boon, fear and apply all condis on us and gg. They also are able to send the conditions back to us.

409 is nice but they nerfed the HGH builds to hard

Hello ANet,

you nerfed us many times. This is ok we get used to this. You more or less removed the HGH builds this is also ok.

But could you please give us a conti removal without elixirs ?

Thank you
An Engineer

I use it for my condition build and I like the toolkit. Great defense, nice damage and a lot of utility

bunker build without bombs/nades is pretty solid. toolkit/EG/Elixir R works pretty well

From the Engineer point of view the changes would remove grenades from our game. Biggest nerf in the history of engineers

I am not looking for a new build. I just wrote that SD builds are pretty bad in sPvP.
I don’t know if you even play sPvP but I still haven’t seen a solid gameplay video from a SD build engineer nor did I faced someone playing it and is useful.

no offense but you write very basic information about SD build. Based on your information your build has low or non condtion removal and you die in focus fire instantly. I still think a thief or ele >> SD engi by far.

Could you post your build please?

My problem is that everyone is telling in the forums how good SD builds are. If you play against someone or try it by yourself it sucks. If you search for a twitch or youtube video you never found someone playing this in sPvP or he is playing hot joins and showing just his kills where he find stupid people

We are not so bad. But at the moment we are not the favorite of the month class.

We still ok with conditions but we have to go for defensive builds. Many engineers are playing with shield and/or toolkit and are able to 1on1 any class but I guess nobody kitten in his pants if he sees an engineer is coming to his spot.

Unfortunately they removed HGH builds from our list.

had in every game yesterday at least 2 mesmers. Some of them were shatter. So it is played

Post a video please. I would like to see that.

All I see is if a SD build engi enters the arena he dies in seconds and the damage is avoidable. Is not that you can 3shot warrior or something. I bet your ele makes more damage in less time and survives longer.

SD build in sPvP means you are a bad thief on range. No defense and less damage as mesmer/thief or ele. Played last week against a SD Build Engi. In sPvP rifle builds are too weak at the moment.

Condition + toughness sPvP builds work well against thiefs. Stunbreaker, vigor are also your friends.

Burst damage is insane at the moment. As an Enigneer you have to go for rabit amulet or you are a 3 hit.

yes I agree. But if you do not know that they share timer. You swap, fire some shots. You see bleeding….

But now I learned something new

ahh ok . thats hard to test. THX

I tested it. This two sigils work fine.

http://imageshack.com/a/img19/7518/g3oz.png

you see I have 0 points in Traits and I am playing my build. I use toolkit and I manage to apply bleeding and I get 3 stacks of might

And they should replaced all the random stuff.

Skyhammer is great. If you do not like it, doesn’t mean nobody likes it.

I had in 1 game a spirit ranger. He stood without moving on 1 place and auto attacked people. He did not move and he killed people.

He trolled people and wrote in chat that he does not move and have success. I killed him in 1on1 but some other classes died on him. The passive effects are pain in the kitten

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqalIqicHxSfF17ICoC1noH5nl5Yfe8WsFEC-ToAAzCuImRNjbGzMyZszMqYKC

I run this build now. I have automated response to make it harder for necros/ranger/warrior or mesmer to kill me. The damage is ok and I have perma vigor during fight.

With the healing turret I have only 0.5sec swiftness gap if I roam around.

Is this thread still on topic?

But it is very important in sPvP. In WvW are many things useless.

Enigneers and condition removal beside elixirs should be discussed.

I want just the protection.

yes, all engis, all necros and all ranger are always bunker. Yes Sir.

I like the map. Most games are fun on the map

pistol skills are general too weak. Glue shot for example. 1sec immobilize on impact then only cripple on 30sec cooldown. It is so slow and has so little effect. It is more or less useless and maybe the weakest #5 skill of all weapons.

1/2 sec activation time to cripple someone for 1 sec is a joke.

Compare Blowtorch with Throw Torch from ranger. …

Yes I know our skills hit more then 1 target. But if I could I would replace glue shot with every other #5 skill from every other weapon.

Randomness from Elixir H should also be removed.

Teldoo we miss you.

Watched http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhHYvP1admw the tny from 2013-12-16. In the finals there is one engineer playing FT+bombs to decap.

OlrunTheBlade.1486:

First of all, I was responding to your hyperbole of having everyone roll warrior. Second, I did say that warrior’s were too strong right now, so I have no idea where you got the idea that I was saying they weren’t. Third, I don’t know where you’re getting your information about the meta (solo queue?) but, especially after the hambow nerfs, I haven’t seen very many double warrior teams.

Watch
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/events/GW2match-net-EU-OFFICIAL-TOURNIE-15th-Dec/first#post3380820

all teams played with warrior and some with 2 warriors. But at finals was in every team only 1

yes, and a warrior or a spirit ranger can not?

I am a fan of engineer, do not get me wrong. But as a spirit ranger you kill the people much faster, bunker your spot with less skill and bring something on the table in team fights.

As an engineer you can bunker against more people as the spirit ranger can do. But you can not kill some classes, you bring little help in team fights.