Guild Wars 2

kyubi.3620:

mortar?

Ill be honest seriously a 10 0 30 30 0 turret engy can actualy maintain permanent vigor as well as easily 6+ might stack retaliation protection regeneration and even fury not to mention they grant it to everyone in the direct area. While at first they may not look like hell in a 1 v 1 they have near complete field control along with ultimate like party buffing and they got the CC to finish you off. While they could have been considered a joke back in the day im not so sure we can actualy laugh at them anymore guys. If they put out the crate as well your in for 12 might stack a permanent regen effect as well as a full party running on permanent vigor and that aint no joke.

That’s not OP however because the moment anyone with a decent aoe build jump into the frey poor guy is likely to have all his turret destroyed despite metal plating and self regening turrets upgrades (staff elementalist is an exemple of it) and as such it has about 5 or 7 possible counters including bomb enginers meteor storm elementalist 2h sword guard 2h sword warrior and even to some level bow thieves. That build is far from OP yet it just perform quite well in a Spvp match.
Of course if your team have no AOE user and you have a turret enginer as your foe its very likely unless you swarm him (and god know they are tanky) hes gunna be a serious nuisance the whole match by hampering capture effort.

Actually you forget the other counter to a turret engi, directly applying conditions to the engi and ignoring the turrets. Heck, A Balth Rune condi Engi or Terror Necro will destroy a Turret Engi any day.

Arachnid.4062:

Turret builds: stack boons and kill your opponents for you? The ultimate passive AI experience

Incendiary powder: So much counter play to the undodgeable 7 second burn from Balth engineers

Crate: The “I win” button

Elixir gun: Permanent weakness on autoattack??? wtf?

Over 1k healing per second… ok

The only thing specific to Engineers in this post is the actual skills themselves. The problems behind the skills however are in no way Engi specific. Mechanics such as these exist across all professions, you have simply decided to attack Engineers.

So no, your topic is not specific to Engineers no matter how much you want it to be, your argument is flawed and illogical as pointed out many times over, and yes you are raging as evident by your strong desire to single out the Engineer and not the mechanics.

None of this matters though, since everything I previously stated is true and will eventually come to pass. You may continue enjoying your rant though.

Sorry, I can’t agree with this method. I used to despise this map being in Soloqueue until I discovered that I can just as easily Teamqueue solo. So now I really don’t take Solo Arena rating seriously. Solo Arenas are nothing more than slightly more organized Hotjoins. Team Arenas, even when joining solo, have provided much better matches and I don’t have to worry about crazy map mechanics affecting my rating.

As mentioned, it goes by the accumulated average rating of the team. And if it so happens that your teams average rating is significantly lower than the enemy team’s average rating, you personal rating will not suffer a significant drop, and vice-versa of course. Also to note, if your team’s average rating is significantly lower than the enemy team’s average rating and you still win, your rating will increase significantly, and vice-versa here as well.

Through this, the system is able to take into account those outlier players that are carrying or being carried by their team.

SPESHAL.9106:

The core problem is the PLAYERS.

People who rage quit cause 80% of the issues in hotjoin.

10% are the cowards who don’t que at the start and wait to join a winning team (hence creating even worse team imbalances).

The other 10% are team-swappers who manipulate a poorly implemented system.

To fix these sorry players….you need serious PENALTIES and debuffs.

These behaviors need to be totally discouraged because it doesn’t matter what type of loophole you close, these type players will always be bad sports and cause trouble in other ways.

Good thing they worried about imbalances in hotjoins so much that they just deleted Raid on Capricorn…It was clearly so imba compared to the current state of hotjoin /facepalm

Did you read this post at all before commenting?

Arachnid.4062:

Where in my original post did I call engineers OP? All I said was your class was a joke with multiple toxic mechanics, and the most ridiculous AI build ever made.

Then here comes the engineer brigade to complain how eles, warriors, necros are more OP.

This thread is not about who is is most OP. It’s about the kitten-poor mechanics that engineer revolves around.

Except that only certain Engi builds revolve around toxic mechanics, same with every other profession. And having played a turret Engi, I find them incredibly easy to beat since I know what I’m doing. Not to mention, once again, cheesy AI builds are not Engineer specific.

So this topic is just one huge attack about how much you hate being pwned by Engineers because you don’t feel they deserve to be able to pwn you.

These mechanics you complain of are in no way Engi specific, which is what everyone is trying to point out. However, your rage against the Engineer as a profession has you turning a deaf ear to anyone who doesn’t sympathize with you.

But I get it, you feel the need to rage, so rage. But do so in knowing that your rants are so ridiculous that it has literally zero impact towards the balance of the game and will eventually be buried and filed away among the many other pointless qq threads, completely disregarded and never to be read again.

Spectating Mode is something I’d like to see more of. As mentioned previously, every now and then I come across an exceptional build or player and am curious to learn more about it. For this, Spectate Mode is a wonderful educational tool. In it’s current state it is being abused though, and I would like to see spectators unable to join the match after the game has started.

As for team selection, I think this needs to stay as well. Hotjoin is great for practice, testing builds, or just getting in some pvp without the need to wait on queues. The ability to do this with friends is great too. However, I feel that upon entering a hotjoin match, the player should see nothing but three options, Join Red, Join Blue, or Spectate. This way, you do not know who will be on your team, yet you can still pre-determine which team to join among friends if you still wish to play together. Also, to see the match/players you’d have to click Spectate, which upon doing so would prevent you from joining the fight during that match.

As for Autobalance, as mentioned previously it needs to take score imbalances into consideration along with player imbalances.

With these changes, Hotjoin could continue to be something quick and enjoyable to play. You can’t completely eliminate exploits, but an effort can at least be made to reduce them.

How many people crying Engi OP here can post a screenshot of their “Champion Genius” title?

I have no idea when Engi became so op, but apparently something went horribly wrong and we are now gods. Nobody, not even Engineers, think IP nor any other trait like it is a good game mechanic. It’s just something we’ve been forced into taking, and would welcome a change (along with changes to other passive traits) with open arms. Hell, we would love for our other two elites to be viable so we aren’t forced into using Supply Crate all the time. Is supply Crate op, not in any way, but it’s all we’ve got.

Turret builds are a joke. I play turret Engi when I’m bored. It wrecks noobs. But soon as a player with any level of skill comes along I am in big trouble. Turret Engi is a hotjoin-level build that is played just for fun.

Outside of this, the real problem is certain runes/sigils/ammy’s ruining pvp. But this has literally nothing to do with the Engineer. This is a problem that exists across all professions.

TL:DR IP is not op but it is poor game mechanic along with many other passive traits in this game. If you are having issues with turret engi’s, that is a simple l2p issue, sorry. Sigils/Runes/Ammy’s are wrecking pvp balance, not the engineer’s fault.

Mrbig.8019:

Not because they’re op, because they’re totally useless and are literally destroying solo q with their uselesness.

I want to see 0 of them again, pls.

It’s incredible that everyone seems to have taken one look at this post and started spewing L2P comments out. Am I the only one that understands that the the op is complaining that that the buff to longbow rangers is saturating his soloqueue matches with bad longbow rangers? The op in no way feels they are op, but rather feels they lack the skill and/or utility to be beneficial to the team, and instead waste a slot on the team that could’ve went to a better player/profession.

The Engi community just became a better place. Sadly, Vee Wee’s forum personality in no way matches how rude she is in game. Good riddance and cheers!

Sounds like the Engi that killed the OP was full turrets using Mortar elite for that one shot kill.

Another one of these. >.<

Please guys, before opening a new thread, just do a google search for existing threads on the subject.

I can never take an Asura character seriously as they all look silly. I love the Charr, but much of the armor in the game clearly wasn’t designed with Charr in mind as it looks ridiculous and back pieces in general look awkward on Charr. Humans and Sylvari always feel so dainty and weak. Although, Sylvari can look pretty amazing on occasion.

Therefore, my choice is Norn for most of my characters. Armor looks great on them, I love their dialogs, and I can see my legendary in it’s full glory. Also, as an added bonus, the Norn Elite [Become the Snow Leopard] is great for escapes in WvW.

My day just got a bit brighter.

There is only one way to fix mortar. Keep it the same except give it only the auto attack. The auto attack insta kills anyone it hits, including your own teammates.

Finally, a way to kill the people I hate on my team.

GOSU.9574:

I support the ability to move the current UI elements around, and gosh!, scale them up or down!

Yeah, how many distance ranged characters do you have that when using top of screen to set down a reticule ends up being blocked by the target UI element and your skill reticule is placed at YOUR location instead?

Yeah 2 years later and this fail still happens.

Ugh, this has happened plenty for me. Very annoying. No into 3rd party addons, but UI customization I’m all for.

I’ve actually found that even as a solo player, going into team arenas results in much more interesting matches and more wins.

take a look at metabattle.com. link is also in my signature down below.

Yeah, what he said. ^^

Not sure what game mode you’re aiming for, but 6/2/0/0/6 is the most common zerk build.

Blood Fiend does not regerate health out of combat since it can be sacrificed. Transfusion can heal him if traited, and Staff 2 gives regeneration to him along with a lucky Focus 4 bounce. If you want a minion to tank for you though, that is what Shadow Fiend is for.

Also, you can heal Blood Fiend out of combat by hitting critters with Staff 2 while roaming in between fights.

S/D Engi is pretty fun. Many different variations to it. Incredible how much a mine field can do if used right. Plenty of cc.

Zerker Necro is great. Dagger auto and Life Blast hits hard. Wells into Death Shroud. Burst with Lich Form is still fun. And most zerker necro builds have decent life force generation so it has a bit more survival than other glass cannons without the need of investing stats into it.

This thread went south so fast! Need some admin to close it!

Might help to post this in the “Looking for Team” thread. Not gonna do much in here man.

Ameno.6813:

ellesee.8297:

Hello frands! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

It’s a thilly thing to call someone a bad Engi for running what they enjoy playing in a game mode where you can literally run the worst build and still succeed! You can run 0 traits and still succeed! The pretentiousness is palpable! Someone actually called Vee Wee an intolerant elitist for disagreeing with “if you run ft u bad engi”! Crazy!

As for PvP, the FT still does pretty terrible damage! It’s also buggy with the camera and terrain and really weak to retaliation! In Vee Wee’s opinion, Juggernaut’s might stacking capability is more useful roaming from place to place and having a few stacks ready for a fight than actually sitting in Flamethrower during a fight! If you were to use Flamethrower, Vee Wee believes the ideal way to use it is to swap to it, maybe blast your fire field, use your knockback and then swap out to something else!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

That’s pretty much what I’ve been doing before the patch. Just checking in to see if the AA buff warrants camping it. It’s not immediately evident how much damage your doing with FF compared to other weapons.

I’ve been running a Celestial FT build in PvP just for fun recently. Rifle/ft/tk/elixir s. It’s not the best, but with Strength runes and sigil of battle and strength, I can maintain around 20 stacks of Might. I do AA with FT, but the build revolves around it’s cc and burst skills. So I cycle through rifle, ft, and tk burst abilities throwing out cc as needed, then aa with ft while nothing else is available.

And if my oponent has retal, I either long range attack with rifle or melee with tk. I also tried this with zerker ammy and it works just as good. Gives you more damage, you just have to be better at postioning yourself and cc’ing your oponent at the right times.

If you’re just doing solo PvE content, you can go condi or power. Carrion will allow you to do a bit of both, but you’re going to need a kit. For carrion gear, either bomb kit, grenade kit, or flamethrower kit, or any combination of the three will work. Then if you still want turrets you still have two slots for those.

All this of course is assuming you are just having fun solo in open world and do not care about being optimal. Otherwise you would need to switch it up to a power build as previously mentioned.

Vee Wee, if your current YouTube/Gmail account is stuck displaying your real name, easiest way is to create a new YouTube/Gmail account specifically for uploading your gw2 videos. Then you could make the name whatever you want it to be.

ShadowPuppet.3746:

Shaogin.2679:

ShadowPuppet.3746:

Adapt and overcome through superior firepower, this is our creed. I get it that people have a favorite setup, but sometimes you just gotta use stuff that you wouldn’t normally use. You will do well in this game if you don’t become one of those players that set’s their kits and then refuses to ever use anything besides them.

I’m pretty sure everyone using the Flamethrower in pve is well aware that it isn’t optimal and is just having fun. No need to start posting advice on how to play in a thread joking about the irony of Flamethrowers and plant monsters.

So then the point of your post is what exactly? You seemed upset that you were struggling with certain mobs because of retal and indicated that you would miss using grenades and flamethrower too much to switch. I offered advice on not becoming too attached to certain kits if you are struggling with aforementioned mobs. When you post on a public forum, expect that you will have people who will respond.

The post was a joke about the retal on plant bosses countering a flamethrower. Everyone else got it and contributed to a fun atmosphere. Went right over your head however and all you saw was someone that needed you teach them how to play a game mastered by 8 year old kids around the world. Thank you captain obvious, but the situation is under control here, now move along.

Ostricheggs.3742:

All you need to know about veewee:

1. She’s has better taste in music than you
2. She’s a better engi than you
3. She’s worlds first rank 80

In comes Ostricheggs, smelling fun conversation that needed to be crashed.

Sebrent.3625:

Sorry, the Dragon is smart and reacted preemptively to what you would do. Now you have to adapt. Get on with it.

Also … who says Bombs aren’t just as good at killing plants?

Let’s go find 2 of the same type of shrub. I’ll plant a bomb on one and you light the other on fire. We’ll see how each one does.

You too. Take your serious posts elsewhere. Just people joking and having fun here.

ShadowPuppet.3746:

Adapt and overcome through superior firepower, this is our creed. I get it that people have a favorite setup, but sometimes you just gotta use stuff that you wouldn’t normally use. You will do well in this game if you don’t become one of those players that set’s their kits and then refuses to ever use anything besides them.

I’m pretty sure everyone using the Flamethrower in pve is well aware that it isn’t optimal and is just having fun. No need to start posting advice on how to play in a thread joking about the irony of Flamethrowers and plant monsters.

Stallerenox.1295:

The irony is that a flamethrower is the worst option to use when trying to kill living plant monsters.

This exactly. And really, Anet buffs FT, then gives generous amounts of retal to this seasons villains. >. <

insanemaniac.2456:

what enemies besides the wolves get retal? i never noticed anything else getting it.

Some of the Inquest Golems have a perma Retal buff as well. And those pesky wolves buff all mordrem within range of the AoE howl with Retal.

gartz.7013:

all i’ve learned from this post is that VeeWee is a pink floyd fan?!

Not surprising, and she says she is also somewhat of a musician and “Vee Wee” is also a guitar style.

JusticarArkiel.1564:

he’s a pain in the kitten that can’t stop reminding everybody of the so-called great accomplishments they’ve gotten and acting like we all should know him (ironically, i’d never heard of him until i went on the forums and looked in the engi subforum……1 year into playing). he is also a very bad speller

Hey hey hey, it’s been established. Vee Wee is a she, not a he.

Hey! Those chests are not worthless! I got Dawn from a chest I got for just playing Hotjoin!

I could settle for a 3min. 2min will never happen since they want to avoid racial skills being favorable over profession skills.

CratZ.6270:

I think the last excuse was that its more of a technical issue than balance issue. As in the server having to keep track of potentially too many separate bleed applications.

Not my words, just what I keep hearing.

This is exactly what it is, as it has been discussed to death several other times in previous threads on this exact same topic over and over and over again.

Most of the time the problem here is that when you do not have a target selected, FT 2 fires in the direction of your camera. Most often, this means it fires into the ground. Once the FT 2 projectile goes into the ground, consider it lost, it’s gone.

To remedy this, position your camera angle so that you are looking above ground level, fire into the length of the Fire Field as mentioned above, then you’ll have no trouble landing this out of combat.

I keep voting for FT 5 to dish out a short duration smoke field. Especially now that FT 2 has a Blast Finisher.

I’m perfectly ok with retal in the sense it counters fast, frequent attacks like the flamethrower and nades. It gives depth to the fight, makes me pay attention and see that I need to strip the boon or use a different method of attacking. When the boon is constant however, it means that my only choice is to not use ft or nades for the majority of fights. makes me sad.

Yamsandjams.3267:

If it gets that bad, you can try using mines to strip the retal (I assume this works, haven’t actually tried it), or switch over to something like bomb kit which is inherently less vulnerable to retaliation.

Mines would work except in the case of Mordrem Wolves, the Retal is either frequently reapplied via AoE howls or it is just a permanent buff.

I could use Bomb or Tool kit, but I’d miss my nades and flames.

Finally, google gave me my answer!

http://ttsgamers.com/forums/topic/tell-us-about-yourself/

Vee Wee be female.

And the reason is because my main is an Engineer.

And all this hate is due to one boon that most the enemies of this story seem to be able to permanently maintain….Retaliation.

Whether I’m using Grenade Kit or Flamethrower Kit, Retal just tears me a new one. And I could just use other attacks while Retal is up, but most of these Mordrem are maintaining near 100% Retal uptime! No fun!

/rant.

I hate when people link gw2skills.net and it takes me to the german site, which google then crappily translates. >.<

Bombsaway.7198:

Vee Wee is our resident Engineer mascot.
Generally, the people who dislike her, wish they had the personality to get their opinions considered as easily as she does.

Is she the best? I doubt it. Is she the most interesting read? Absolutely!
Definitely no stick up the posterior.

And here it is again! I needs confirmation!

Myself and others keep assuming Vee Wee is a guys, but then I see these posts referencing Vee Wee as female!

Which is it!? Male or Female!? My curiosity must be quelled!

Sirius.4510:

I’m guessing that was an across-the-board cut to the effects of charge skills in general? Because going out specifically to nerf a couple of elite skills that were already pretty weak would be kind of hilarious, albeit also sad.

It was a nerf on charge skills across the board. But it is so saddening on my Snow Leopard.

I always use Snow Leopard to escape from Zergs in WvW. So this speed nerf really hurts. And sadly, I doubt they’ll ever reduce the cd.

Tanith.5264:

I bet all the profession forums have a “Vee Wee”. I confess I had no idea he existed until I came here last week, because I want to to WvW with my senior engineer. And yes, I’ve learned stuff.

So thanks from me as well, Vee Wee. Wahoo!!!

No actually, no other profession forum has anything like Vee Wee.

Dirtyrascal.1023:

ellesee.8297:

dancingmonkey.4902:

gartz.7013:

I’ve seen posts from this person under ArrDee and Ellsee? and i just would like the story behindd the number 1 engi NA

He is a solid playing engineer.

He absolutely is dishonest in claiming to be the first engineer in NA to 80.

He is often on the leader boards here, but is also generally ranked below some of the other posters here that he argues with or calls bad players who disagree with him.

He has multiple accounts because he has a bad habit of making personal attacks and insulting players with profanity. I would guess he aquired other account to use when he gets enough infractions to have one on suspension for a week or two.

He states his opinion as fact.

He claims anyone who uses the inventions line is a bad person’

He tries to give the best advice he can, probably with the best intentions to help players. He is so close minded to certain aspects, that his advice is limiting, and he often appears very much against thinking outside the box.

This is my direct answers to the OP. Everything in bold, is provable fact, and everything else is my personal opinion based on my experience.

Hello frand! Vee Wee here, #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!

Thanks frand!

Vee Wee is world first rank 80!

Who cares about leaderboards! Vee Wee plays 5 elixirs and is rank 2! The only person in front of Vee Wee has under 100 games played! That’s how bad leaderboards are! Vee Wee doesn’t call people who disagree with Vee Wee bad! You can disagree with Vee Wee and still be da best player! But if you disagree with simple facts like Inventions tree being da worst, then idk!

Vee Wee gets banned a lot! Luckily many of Vee Wee’s frands quit the game many years ago! Unluckily many of Vee Wee’s frands quit the game many years ago! )*:

Vee Wee doesn’t state Vee Wee’s opinion as fact! Vee Wee states facts as facts! For example, it is a fact that turret builds are bad as evidenced by the ToG yesterday and the day before! Many turret Engis tried! None succeeded! Not even one that was pretty high up on your precious leaderboards! An opinion would be Vee Wee likes Adventurer Runes over Balthazar! Vee Wee doesn’t think that’s fact! Balthazar Runes are really strong!

Vee Wee never stated anyone who uses the Inventions line is a bad person! That’s just crazy! Vee Wee asked in a previous thread where you said that to please quote Vee Wee on when Vee Wee said that thilly statement! No response because it never happened! Bad players or good players trolling maybe! But bad people! No way!

Vee Wee does try to give the best advice to everyone! Especially Engineers! When everybody cried about MM Necromancers being thuper op, Vee Wee was like hah! This build is bad and it was! But Vee Wee never asked any MM Necromancer to change their build like Vee Wee does with turret Engi! That’s because Vee Wee doesn’t care about Necromancer players and more people running MM Necro means less people running Terrormancer, which is impossible for an Engi to beat! Vee Wee cares about each and every one of Vee Wee’s fellow Engineer players! That’s right! Vee Wee loves each and every one of you, even if you decide to run poopy builds like turrets!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

PS: http://twitch.tv/Livskis for Vee Wee’s stream! Wahoo!

Well whatever Vee Wee is or does – he just PWND you my friend…

I have to say… from what I’ve seen Vee Wee is always polite, always helpful, always cheery and ever active…

This post has 1700 views at the time I’m posting – says a lot!

Reckon this post is a good opportunity for anyone who’s ever been helped out by a Vee Wee post or enjoyed his general cheeryness to say thanks…

So yeh, Thanks Vee Wee – keep the tips coming!

Vee Wee is a help to the Engineer community, but at the same time Dancing Monkey is not lying. I’ve seen myself Vee Wee’s rude behavior to other players and foul language. He/she is by no means the top Engineer nor the first rank 80, however his/her posts are fun to read and his/her opinions are often backed by legitimate experience and can be trusted.

Now, Vee Wee, male or female!? O.o

Well now I’m curious. Vee Wee, male or female irl?