Guild Wars 2

Well if you like the engie better than other classes then main it.

Its hard to define best but in guild wars you should not be looking to play the strongest class because buffs and nerfs come monthly; what was viable in march may not be in april and class tiers are constantly changing

You know what would help? If the engie’s favorite game designer and awesome all around engie * wink wink Tyler Bearce ;D * was able to define what they mean by versatility. Does it mean choosing skills before battle, during battle or some other time?

Its questions like those that keep me up at night. Apparently it does for Tyler too, this guy always posts here around midnight pst lol

Engineers make good jokes:

An optimist sees the glass half full. A pessimist sees the glass half empty. An engineer sees a glass twice as big as it needs to be.

What is the difference between Mechanical Engineers and Civil Engineers? Mechanical Engineers build weapons; Civil Engineers build targets.

How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? No one knows, they never figured it out.

Normal people believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.

How many Software Engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
None, thats a hardware issue.

An electrical engineer, mechanical engineer and software engineer are on their way to a trade show when their car stalls and they are forced to pull over to the side of the road. The mechnical engineer says, “it’s probably a mechanical problem. I’ll get my tool box out of the trunk and I can fix it.” The electrical engineer says, “no, I’ll bet it’s an electrical problem. I have my multimeter with me and I’ll go check it out.” Finally, the software engineer says, “Let’s close all the windows, then open them back up again, and everything will work.”

Time to nerf engineers? Sir, you obviously have not been keeping up with monthly patches for engineers.

ShaunZ.1098:

Penguin.5197:

I would just like to point out…

I was an engie before it was cool

I can verify that

*bro fist *

Baldric.6781:

Don’t worry, when they nerf the HGH build, you won’t see engis anymore .

I play some weird semi-tanky version of the engie so at least I’ll be around lol

Zorgog.3908:

Hey all. Long time reader, first time poster. Just wanted to post my WvW and tPvP turret builds and see what the OP thought of them. They’re pretty similar but no condition damage – uses Rifle. I wish I had some gameplay videos to post since a lot of fights are just hilarious. I’m having a ton of fun with turrets. Haven’t lost a 1v1 yet (honestly who care though?), won most 2v1’s.

(copy/paste)
WvW version http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fcQQFAUlIq6ZntSXF1bJx4DdO8hCDSxetroC6/TB5C;ToAA1CtoMyYkwIrROjkGNG4MA
tPvP version http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fcQQFAUlIq6ZntSXF1LJR4DFGki9aXRF0/XGyluA;ToAA1CtoMyYkwIrROjkGNG4MA

bad link on both

Yes gadgets need more love too. Not only are most mediocre/bad, they only have one trait. That reduces cd by 20%.

Its not wonder people rarely, if ever, use them.

I would just like to point out…

I was an engie before it was cool

Kimbald.2697:

The timer by itself isn’t the worst part: it is the fact that you get the FULL turret cooldown when they disappear.
Let them disappear but give them a 5 sec cooldown to put them up again at most.
This way you can’t go afk, but you’re not suddenly left without your turrets either mid-fight.

Definitely, It wouldn’t be so bad if I could redeploy my turret a few seconds after they committed suicide.

Yes they did, sadly, turrets now only lasts five minutes before they explode and go on full cd. Oh and it was also just implemented in last monthly patch.

Orissa.1872:

Healing mist is shiny, air blast is just psycho-kinetic strike. Also all the smoke, so vampire can vanish in darkness

Its a sad day when being shiny makes you a vampire .-.

Forestnator.6298:

This Thread is about turrets, isn’t it? Why we discuss about KR? Intersting point btw to use it instead of stun breaker…

This thread got hijacked once a wild game designer appeared :P

Yes rangers are indeed a pain to fight Also,

Tyler Bearce.3427:

Ultimately Kit Refinement was too powerful as a tier 1 trait, and so far we’ve been avoiding swapping the tier a trait is in. Other considerations were improving the weak kit refinement skills on Bomb Kit and Med Kit, reworking the really strong skills of Grenade Kit and Elixir Gun, and also any kit refinement proc that gives a skill that’s already on that kit, like the Caltrops on Tool Kit.

I remember someone had said they did not want tier 1 traits to be build defining, that is what tier 3 traits are for. I find it funny though that t1 traits such as static discharge and kit refinement were the build defining traits for engineers, mostly cause many of our t3 traits are underwhelming. So here is some quick feedback: Make our t3 traits stronger, Autodefense bomb dispenser has too long of a cd for a grandmaster trait. Piercing shots only has piercing – Other classes get that as a major trait (plus an extra effect with warriors). Adrenal Implant – I’m still confused as to why ours is grandmaster when rangers have it as adept.

Thanks for stopping by the engie forums btw

p.s. please don’t leave out mortars out in the cold

Tyler Bearce.3427:

Go turrets! Someone asked me to post my turret build, so this seemed like a good place for it:
http://www.gw2build.com/builds/simulator.php#1.4.8.0.0.0.33.0.0.0.80.94.85.86.102.8.8.12.228.234.0.0.0.0.256.0.0.276.271.0.289.291.0.20.0.10.20.20

How do you do against rangers with that build? For some reason I feel like ranged builds would have the upper hand against you

Chaba.5410:

Penguin.5197:

My amazing junk show

Bahahahahahahahahaha! Personal battering ram! Amazing!

I remember reading a long time ago a thread titled what class annoys you the most? And one of the responses from a thief was “engineers who wont let themselves be kited away from their traveling junkshow” or something along those lines, I thought it was pretty funny and I still like that name for turrets in general :P

Ughh I love rifle but it has proven to be consistently bad, getting stuck when using blunderbuss kills me. Literally.

And yeah the ft needs just a little more tweaking.

Ahhh I thought you were askin for guild names. I dont think eps will fit though, char limit and all that

Steam powered or Enginenuity? Or My amazing junk show

jkctmc.8754:

I have over 20k health on my Thief, and my damage is fine. Sure I won’t one shot anyone, but I don’t care about that. I love the ebb and flow of the fight, so a longer fight doesn’t bother me.

Don’t Guardians share the same HP pool the Thief does?

Yes guardians, thief and ele all share the base hp

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Health

Aveneo.2068:

Alright, let’s give Warriors and Thieves ‘Boon Hate’. Then give Engineers and Rangers ‘Stealth Hate’ (the ability to see stealthed opponents).

There, now there’s a hard counter for everything.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

Aye, it hurts flamethrower and grenades like hell. :/

Its hard to say since you would eventually unlock all but what I can say is that as you level for 1pt skill dont get utility goggles and throw mine. For t2 skip rockets boots and personal battering ram. For t3, they all can have their uses. As for elites, just take supply crate. Elixir X is decent for pve as well.

It slows down a lot when it isn’t patch week, there probably isn’t anything left to discuss that hasn’t been talked about already

I would love something like this but like others have mentioned, there are some turrets that might end up a little too good if we were allowed to use the same turret in multiple slots. However, I think a good alternative could be to have a rifle turret kit: Five cheap turrets unable to be ovecharged for the low low price of one utility slot!

PWNcakesAndROFLs.8263:

Boon-hate is coming, but for now Throw Mine is your best friend in combating retaliation. Remember that the tool-belt skill also removes boons, as well.

I’m pretty sure they removed the effect from tool belt skill mines

Auto defense bomb effect is decent but problem is its cd is waaaaay to high for a grandmaster trait. At 60 seconds I would take it, if it was an adept trait.

Fishbait.6723:

They became Op when every single one of them got sick of being 1-2 shot in 1-2 seconds by everyone & their granny, so were forced into going tanky so they could tolerate the “balance” in this game ;p

I find it funny this happened to engies too
But anyways yes, once eles figured out you could play tanky in their classes it was like if the eles gave themselves their own super patch

Gelltor.3015:

The only pets that can hit that hard need to be traited for(resulting in a weaker ranger) or are squishy themselves…..so just wipe the pet out first?
You should never ignore a bird or a cat.

If with a tanky build killing the pet first might help lessen damage in the long run (depends on their second pet) but if playing with a squishy you have to ignore them or by the time you kill them you have already taken a large portion of damage from the rangers

I think they are fine as they are right now though

Yup and they use The Dreamer to target bronies, Necros for all the emo people out there, engies for steampunk lovers, rangers for animal lovers, and the Kraitkin for anime lovers.

My gawd, they got all their bases covered O.o

Josh Foreman.8250:

I also heard you like treasure chests…

I think it’s a funny commentary on 1st/3rd world dynamics, that at the same time you have a tragic event in a virtual world like Flame and Frost, complete with sick and dying fugitives, half the population of heroes is distracted by virtual entertainment, ignoring their plight.

No rush, Rox and Braham are still on their way to part 4, nothing we can do about that but wait~

Josh Foreman.8250:

Oh, and I also also heard you like secret shops, so I…

No wai I have to go look for it now!

Its already answered
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/sab/No-pistol-or-rifle-skins/first#post1744971

I have tried a pure turret build, and the only weakness I found is that I can’t move for the life of me if I get hit by that rangers 20 sec immobilize skill if I am using pistols with it. I started using a rifle instead for its cc breaker and it also has worked quite well.

Katz.5143:

However, the centaurs took over much of Queensdale in our absence. o.O

Yeah we go off to play in our virtual world for a bit and our real world gets screwed by centaurs :/

Crise.9401:

Although… that rises a question of what kind of bullets would a 8-bit themed gun fire. I don’t even know if they have the tech to change weapon projectiles based on skin, presumably yes since unicorn bow is a thing.

I imagine it would be some sort of retro gun shots like this

Thats really sad to hear for us engies, but understandable :/
Though maybe next time you can work on pistols or rifles first instead of say..shields?

Well if you just want an engie guild you can join us, everyone who is anyone is in it
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/guilds/guilds/Fort-Engineer-NERF-is-looking-for-engineers/first#post1473453

but if you really wanna lead your own guild, well good luck!~

Edit: woops I think we already asked you some time before lol

Its april fools for all the grumpy people! The rest of us just get to enjoy new content~ :P

Stevens.2791:

I agree, I would like to be able to barter a rifle & pistol skin. I don’t like the idea of the shield “covering” engineers.

Ditto, I would rather like to see the rifle or pistol cover engineers.

I think laurels are good for pvp. Yes many dont know how to play, you see a whole bunch of noobs, etc. but the thing is it attracts people. When they do it for for enough months to get the laurels even if its only that, they will start to learn to play so its a win win in the end, more spvp players and the pve players get their laurels.
You just have to bare with it for the first few months though

That is the best trailer I have seen in a very long time!
Without spoiling much but I never imagined Rytlock doing what I just saw, it definitely made my day
Thanks for putting the effort into it, even though its not directly part of the game I really appreciate how awesome that trailer is!

Wait is this about warriors? What this doing on the engie forums? O.o

Edit: nvm, darn it google! your supposed to be an engie!

Roo.2037:

I made a thread about the 5-minute life of turrets and was quite disappointed nobody except me seems to care

Ha, I care! I was pretty disappointed when we finally got turrets buffs, we also got some lame time limit. I mean you don’t see ranger pets exploding after 5 minutes so why would ours?

Although I got to say its not game breaking and I can live with it, as long as it doesn’t get in the way of me being able to kill. If it does then I’ll definitely complain more.

So how did ranger become tier a/t2 all of a sudden? Is it that because of quickness change people cannot burst them down anymore?

And it will always be bugged until engies learn to stop shooting from the hips!~

gimmethegepgun.1284:

Penguin.5197:

Plus nothing can ever be as bad as mortar. Nothing.

Don’t tempt them, they might take up your challenge.

Its the ultimate non elite elite. I would be amazed if they made another skill that could even come close to competing with it

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/Mortar-Pros-vs-Cons/first

gimmethegepgun.1284:

It would either be absurdly overpowered to account for it being stationary, in which case it would get nerfed to hell and be useless like Mortar, or it would just plain not be worth it due to stationary in the first place.

Also, lol5signet

Dont hate I just wanna hit 80 on my warr as fast as possible to continue playing my engie :P

Plus nothing can ever be as bad as mortar. Nothing.

They are already in game, why not make them into something we can all enjoy? I would take it over that other not-elite elite any day of the week

Support here and show devs how much you want it!

Ghostpilot.6237:

Scope works, it just doesn’t display on the character sheet (same with Sigil of Accuracy and the Target the Weak minor trait).

I think a while back people were trying it out while having 4% crit chance on dummies to see if trait worked, they were getting results close to 4%

Hsinimod.5784:

Too little too late. Had I thought of this, I’d have maximized my Skill Point/Karma gains.

Ah yes, fun times.

Edit: I mean for people who had though of this before, definitely not me, no sir.