Guild Wars 2

One of the barriers that will always keep this from truly ever becoming the best pvp game it ever can IN MY OPINION, is artificial intelligence and passive damage. I believe a game like this suffers from having conditions like confusion and retaliation. Mesmers are the worst offenders and don’t even belong in this game in my opinion, it just holds your hand and the game plays for you. It’s one thing if it truly was a game of deception, and finding the real one was the true task. As it stands though you spend 90% of the time fighting off clones and phantasms just to get to the Mesmer. It’s one thing if all classes functioned like this, but I use 3 kits on my engineer ill never accept that.

So we can no longer pop elixir s and go into a kit and heal up or prepare with a smoke bomb or whatever?

This is by far the most annoying thing on the engineer for me. Absolutely terrible and I cannot imagine how many times it has gotten me killed,or left me unable to save someone. It’s almost like they changed the cast to a channel and if you press any other button too fast it interrupts the cast, what it’s been seeming like to me

GeForce GTX TITAN GeForce GTX 780 GeForce GTX 770 GeForce GTX 760 Ti
GPU GK110 GK110 GK104-425 GK104-225
CUDA Cores 2688 2496 1536 1344
TMUs 224 208 128 112
ROPs 48 40 32 32
Memory 6GB GDDR5 5GB GDDR5 4GB GDDR5 2GB GDDR5
Interface 384-bit 320-bit 256-bit 256-bit
MSRP $999 $499 to $599 $399 $299

Then the rumored titan ultra supposed to be coming out is rumored to have 256 tmus and 2880 cudas

Stormcrow.7513:

Unless your running high rez, multiple screens or your coding I really don’t see my reason to have the titan. There aren’t too many games out that need that much power, but they are still super cool lol.
I was interested in the Titan lite. Looks like I might have to sell my 680 :O

Yea I love surround gaming so they are perfect. And titan lite = 780 so get ready they come out in may

There is supposedly the titan “ultra” coming out so the titan might actually see a price drop. I wouldn’t mind the 780s but I wanna upgrade my 3 screens this year to 3 of those overlord 1440p, 100+hz, ips monitors I think titans serve best for that. Also the 760 ti should be a good card since its the 670 refresh.

Nvidia is releasing their 7xx series next month. Look into it tge new 780 is the titan lite and the 770 is the old 680 refresh. Waiting to see how the prices adjust over the next 2 months then ill go for 2 titans or 3-4 titans lites (780s)

Ezeriel.9574:

This class is so horribly broken, the only thing left to do is find a mechanic to exploit.

They would need six months to fix everything that is broken with this class.

..and at this point, the only way to play the engineer is to find something “not working as intended” and exploit the hell out of it, because playing the engineer “as intended” is simply not viable.

QFT. The last paragraph is sig worthy, mind if I use it?

I NEVER have this issue on my Asura engi. Even months ago I’ve never had it. I think it has to due with the height of your character many people make their Asura as small as they can possibly be.. I made mine as tall as an Asura can be, and its actually a decent size taller then the smallest Asura.

The supply crate elite daze bug is seriously kitten me off. Has gotten me killed easily over 5 times and screwed me over even more trying to save teammates. I have now gotten into the habit of pressing the button for big old bomb, supply crate, and bandage heals at least 5 times in a row before moving on.

Zeebok.1460:

Maskaganda.2043:

MrForz.1953:

Face it, the last patch forced the Engineer players into HGH in order to remain efficient, the new KR is a joke and is nearly impossible to manage when having more than one kit, plus it’s not worth the pathetic, unhelpful and unwelcome effects it has. It is anything but a step foward.

Of course we drew lines. Not alot of people actually looked to play the Engi just to drink and shoot without anything else in between. Anet designs Engies (and over-nerf them) in order to remain versatile, but wait… I can’t be versatile if I decide to not spend 30 points in alchemy? What the…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuxQwXZSdxI

10 points in alchemy. no hgh. no 409. several kits. destroys stuff.

I saw a lot of people destroying themselves. Confusion stacks ftw.

I can only imagine what I could do if my conditions hit that hard in tpvp, no wonder people are complaining with conditions hitting that hard.

I miss all those number crunchers who uses to post on this forum

IMO, its only overpowered in wvw where conditions hit for redundant numbers. I find it to be highly lackluster in spvp/tpvp. One thing is for sure though, any beliefs that it will be nerfed is perfectly warranted. The engineer has received a major nerf every single patch, never small ones, always build removing nerfs (or removing complete abilities).

The main issue is simply that some classes have a #2 skill that may interrupt a single stomp (if no stability is used), some classes have a #2 that may interrupt an entire group from stomping and then there are classes that have a #2 that will interrupt an entire group from stomping no matter what they do.
You can’t balance on the #3, because the classes that can’t reliably interrupt multiple stomps with #2 will rarely get to use it. Engineer is perfect example, the opportunity to use #3 skill rarely even arises.
And that’s just the main glaring issue. There’s other issues like some classes doing insane damage in down states, my engineer #1 completely pales in comparison to many others

Also OP you don’t seem to know what a blink/teleport stomp is. The only way (that I know) to stomp a thief guaranteed everytime on the first try is a teleport stomp

Razer Nostromo to me is the most important with a controlfreek on the analog. That and something like combat mode but I still use the ground targeting but mainly just so you don’t always have to hold rmb.

Yea the way they answer makes them seem pretty clueless no wonder the games like this

Mesmers are in a weird spot, I feel like they are overpowered. For one the game does almost all the work for you. A Mesmer can assault a point by standing in the background sending in clones and stuff from afar you fight the computer more then the player. And it’s like if you don’t kill tge phantasm and stuff they sit there and burst you down, if you do kill them they explode and give you conditions and stuff. Maybe I feel like this because how much extra work for half the results as a 3 kit engineer.

Of course we still have options, but lets not sugar coat this here. The engineer has been nerfed into the ground plenty enough times to warrant no return. Worst part is we’re not talking slight nerfs, we are talking complete builds removed or nerfed into oblivion like no other class. That combined with bugs and how they are ignored….

Sound like your screwed. People say find a team like that is the easiest thing you can do in this game.

Lordrosicky.5813:

Nobody knows who the best is. There is no way to prove it and if anyone thinks someone is the best thief that’s purely an opinion which is inevitably based on incomplete information. Fine to have an opinion but stating at as fact is ignorant tbh.

Means you know howto hang ten and surf that zerg

Imo Pure cheese. I probably feel like that because I have to work twice as hard for half the results as an ENGINEER. I look at this as something like reflect/passive damage which is terrible. The two main things I hate in my pvp are passive damage and artificial intelligence.

Oxstar.7643:

Ezeriel.9574:

I can do much more damage when attuned to fire.

Jumpshot, blunderbuss, prybar, throw wrench, static discharges. What’cha got? Oh and mega stacks of confusion.

Ezeriel.9574:

When I attune to earth, I give my group protection, weaken, roots, bleeds, reflection. When I attune to air, I can give group swiftness (twice), and a lightning combo field (who else can do that?)

I could give my team and me those buffs and more with elixirs actually… As for the combo field, can you deploy a field that heals removes 3 conditions aoe and acts as a condition remove and retaliation combo field in one?

Ezeriel.9574:

…and get this. Instead of a measly super elixir when switching to elixir gun, when I switch to water, I heal myself, give myself regeneration, give myself regenerate health (it’s like a second regeneration) and I cure a condition!!! All from pressing one button!

Measly eh? I think we’ve established already that EG works great to remove coniditons. And with backpack regenerator it’s the same regen effect.

Ezeriel.9574:

…and check this out, if I dodge roll I heal myself again, and cure another condition!!!

Yeah, and I can drop three healing units one condition remove unit and one fury+swiftness unit from one skill without any traits.

Ezeriel.9574:

And when I cast my #1 water skill, I heal the melee guys for like 3-4 times more than I could do with those healing bombs.. gawd. how lame was that? I can do this from range!

Yes but your damage will suck pretty dang hardcore until the 25 or so seconds that you need to attune back are up.

Ezeriel.9574:

…and I have these things called signets. Every time I cast a spell, one of them heals me! And I don’t even have to deploy it, or worry about range, this thing just goes with me where ever I go. …and I have another one, and every ten seconds, it cures a condition!

Pretty small healing I have to say, with ONE kit I can set up a fire combo field, knockback a horde of foes, blind the same horde, do some great aoe damage, and set more people on fire faster than you can.

Ezeriel.9574:

Ha-hahah… things are just so much better now. I’m like a new man!!!

Yes, a new man who couldn’t do it. Congratulations on trying, congratulations on not being a successful engineer, it’s a hard class to master indeed, and those of us who do kick a lot of butt.

This guy has clearly never played a d/d ele lol

Guess it doesn’t happen to everyone.

If its a challenge your looking for then engineer is the one for you. They are beastly, and 1v1 a good engi would beat a good ele everytime. IMO there isn’t much hard about ele mentalist once you learn what each ability does and the normal rotations.

Elementalist

/15char

I find it very ironic the skill difference between the wvw people and spvp/tpvp people

I run a minimum of 3 kits always, 2 back when I used elixir h. Right now using medkit, toolkit, and bomb kit.

Kalan.9705:

It’s a clear indication the devs want us to tax engineer on all fronts, no access to weapon swap, and not have multi-kitting as any sort of offset, the loss of crucial utility slots, the weaker nature of most kits, and weaker by design weapons with extremely poor selection and the clunky nature of our F mechanic which basically requires 2 skill casts to do what other get with one cast time.

I know you got more keep it going…..

Sorry, but no, this game was designed with carebears at heart

When did eles become unkillable? I know that dagger dagger build well and it falls to my engineer every time.

From what I reason that reddit it’s a bug that allows pvers who already completed the monthly laurel reward can get an extra10 from pvp.

There was a bug last where you couldn’t revive after death, people loved it to say the least while it lasted

kaplis.7195:

you leave him alone and pray to ANet that they will stop infesting PvP with so many dumb PvE things.

This. Artificial intelligence has no place in pvp imo

Good stuff need more peeps to fill out

Yes

/15Chars

Engineers always get a small amount of bug fixes/buffs that basically amount to nothing, then a huge nerf that completely overshadows it. Until this pattern is broken I doubt ill ever be impressed with any of these patches

Where were you for the other SOTG? They never do any of that stuff talked about in the SOTG

Well I’m gonna give it a try to after this bullkitten

titaniumm.2983:

it’s simply ridicolous, me (and many other ppl) bought this game for the pvp, and they don’t do atleast nothing for us..also i play another game born in december 2012 made by an indipendent team, and that team keeps its promises much better than a a bigget company like anet..

they do a list and give us a ETa for all the feature, and in the date estabilished we get that feature..i don’t talk about some ridicolus class balance like “-15% damage on that skill” , i mean new map, new class, a mechanics changes, and so on, also they often play with us, so they really know how is the state of the game (it’s a only pvp game, so no pve balance)..

and it’s a indie company..learn to them anet, and shame yourself..

they really want the ppl play their game, so give to ppl what they ask..ask for duel? they implemented duels, ask for arena? they put the arena in, ask for deathmatch?
they implemented deathmatch, ask for rent a server? they implement that feature, ask for balance or cry “qq assassin is op!” they TEST IT!

if this game instead calling gw2, had been called “random name” you would have sold maybe 100.000 copies…

ppl want duels? give duel to them
ppl want gvg ? (oh my god, this is GUILD WARS) give gvg to them

i have no word..you are ruining this game..

(i play only ele since beta, and i admit, we are op when we talk about defensive abilities, and we suck when we talk about our traits fire/air, you didn’d notice that?)

The path of exile?

fishybill.6908:

The stun breaker on Elixir U made me laugh the most and realise they have really lost the plot, because you would only be able to take this as a secondary stun breaker.

As was said above you use your primary stun breaker as you are about to take a kitten ton of damage, why the hell would you make their life easily by taking double damage or limiting your dodge – Useless!

If they had to pick an Elixir for a stun breaker why not B or C at least it would have been useful!

Making elixir c into a stun breaker alone would open up many builds than they managed to create in 4+ months by covering conditions healing and stun break in 1 shot. This change alone would be all I ever need.

Kontrolle.3514:

Halcyon.7352:

Kontrolle.3514:

They finally killed my engineer, i survived 13543 nerfs, resskilled/regeared after every patch, now you got me anet. Im done here.

Very very, very tempted to throw in the towel along side ya. Only reason I’m not is that the conditions/HGH build still somewhat interests me; least til they nerf that into the ground too, to give gadgets a cooldown reductiom or something equally ludicrous.

This build sucks, it always sucked and will ever suck its designed for baddies who suck at playing engineer. Its totally BS in 1vX and HGH is the most useless and wasted trait ever. Jes its the last build left because there is no other way to remove conditions, but that doesnt mean its a good build.

If you dont agree you were a baddie anyway. The only dangerous/decent engineers had a minimum of 2 kits, everything else was just free badges.

I just rage now until maybe next week and maybe i continue playing my mesmer/ele or im done once and for all. Engineer is dead for me and it was the thing that drawed me to this game.

I personally have no clue what so special about that p/p hgh build I think it’s bad as well….is it a wvw thing because conditions hit harder? I don’t get it I used to use a build just like it back in August called “the skirmishing alchemist” that Vudani created it seems the same.

Yamsandjams.3267:

Haralin.1473:

elixier U is now a stunbreaker

Although by breaking a stun you will either take double damage for 5 seconds or not be able to dodge for awhile… much better to focus on using it for burst damage, only capitalizing on the stun break it you’ve expended all other options.

Aka 0 synergy.

/signed

These devs are clueless

It’s now pretty apparent they don’t have a clue what they’re doing

McDili.1549:

Shanks R Us.2489:

The 20 second CD on the kits would be manageable if we could still jump and save our refinement.

What? Do you have some impulse to jump every time you switch kits or something?

By the way he said it I’m guessing its been fixed, but before if you switched while jumping the kit refinement didn’t go off.

Spoken like a true pver

Y u no let me watch on ipad??

I only played pvp in this game since release. I loved engineer so much that the conquest mode was kind of overlooked on my part. Now every update engineer gets a significant nerf of some sort, and the November 15th patch nerf was it for me. I played here and there throughout the end of November and December, then gave it up. I still keep track on updates and seems nothing has changed. Last patch was crap, no new anything, and engineer still manages to get nerfed significantly every patch still. See you guys in 2014

I really feel they are better off not even doing these SOTG interviews. They end up saying they will do a bunch of stuff, and promising even more and never deliver. It only adds fuel to this forest fire if you ask me

I use surround its completely supported . Though cutscenes are messes up and ui can’t be scaled higher or lower. Ther than that it works just fine and I managed to force 74hz in game settings

Jazhara Knightmage.4389:

the problem is GOF, DE’s and LA and WvWvW really are a different game perf wise, try it yourself……its the main complaint most of us have.

as to you Raijinn i dont care if you are, and i dont care if somebody has 4k to spend on videocards…..i find the idea of spending a grand, let alone 4 grand on videocards insane…same with spending a grand or more on a cpu….if you got the money to blow have at it.

Don’t get so offended lmfao