Guild Wars 2

I feel like engineers are in a spectacular position.

Having read the complaints here, I have to wonder what kind of builds you are running, and how are you using them.

Jayne.9251:

I still think it’s cheap, lol. And thankfully, only about three servers (EU) use it.

I still would like anet to revert back to the old fov. There was something poetic about players smooshing the three-monitor setup guys, over and over.

Disingenuous statements of this nature, do not help the issue. Servers do not do anything of this sort. Players do.

I prefer to keep the current FoV, as it isn’t that big of a provlem to deal with. I am waiting for HoT before worry g much about it.

I think the skills themselves are fine, but the ground targeting functionality, is unnecessary and clunky.

The previous version was easier to deal with, and worked under water. I would much prefer the ability to use this skill underwater as well.

Huck.1405:

azizul.8469:

direct damage has had it’s time. time for condi to shine.

No, direct damage should ALWAYS be the main way to inflict damage. Conditions should just be a little extra.

You appear to have difficulty understanding the difference between subjective opinion and objective fact.

In many cases, skills are designed around condition damage, with direct damage being a small, added bonus.

If you avoid kits, you side stepping the ideology and design of the engineer. I run full celestial, and do not feel squishy at all, and my damage feels solid, to me.

Med kit not working under water is horrible. The extra step with ground targeting it bad. It no longer triggers “on heal” when swapping to it.

I for one, am not happy with it over all.

Skady.5916:

We need a special forum section for blackmails…

Nah, they should just make SAB accessible ONLY as a preorder bonus for players who preordered before June 23rd..

pepper.6179:

coglin.1867:

Sirendor.1394:

Four of my friends have recently transferred from Fissure of Woe to higher tier servers because there weren’t many good fights around. I personally do not have the stomach to grind 300+ gold just for a simple transfer, nor do I feel like paying $20 for a transfer because that feels like a rip-off. I’d rather quit than do that to be honest.

Any suggestions for a desperate WvW player who likes WvW but can’t play it because his server is not populated enough? Free transfers: I am all for that. Only reason to transfer is WvW anyways.

I suggest making new friends, or follow your option of quitting.

If you would rather quit, then spend a few gold, or drop the pocket change, then you have a very odd definition of the term “friend” from most folks I know.

wow $20 is pocket change for you?

Absolutely. $20 is nothing considering the hundreds of hours with my friends.

if your friends are not worth $20, then in my opinion, they are not friends at all.

Sirendor.1394:

Four of my friends have recently transferred from Fissure of Woe to higher tier servers because there weren’t many good fights around. I personally do not have the stomach to grind 300+ gold just for a simple transfer, nor do I feel like paying $20 for a transfer because that feels like a rip-off. I’d rather quit than do that to be honest.

Any suggestions for a desperate WvW player who likes WvW but can’t play it because his server is not populated enough? Free transfers: I am all for that. Only reason to transfer is WvW anyways.

I suggest making new friends, or follow your option of quitting.

If you would rather quit, then spend a few gold, or drop the pocket change, then you have a very odd definition of the term “friend” from most folks I know.

Yeah, I feel it is unessicary effort to have to worry about item placement with med kit. I really hope they decide to allow it to work similarly to its current functionally.

Wait, I must have missed something. Are all the med kit skills, ground targeted skills?

Galandil.9641:

Greatest backpedaling ever.

They suggest a change. Get attacked for it. They revoke the change based on feedback. Get attacked for it.

And people wonder why they seem to avoid the forums

There have been days in which other professions su forums got attention. There were days in which rangers or eles had dev attention in the past about specific balance changes comming up.

We’re you asking them then, what they were doing about hobosacs or nonfunctional engineer traits in those sub forums then?

This sub forum is for discussion about the profession, not threads to complain that your preferences professions, do not have as many recent dev post.

Cobrakon.3108:

Is this a true statement:

In a duel, the closer 2 people’s skills are evenly matched, the more important gear becomes in a duel.

Now I didn’t say how much more important, but that generally speaking it does become more important.

your thoughts plz

The answer is “No”.

Because the trait selection, utilities, healing skill, elite, and weapon set, chosen for us by each is extremely more important then gear.

MethaneGas.8357:

coglin.1867:

Perhaps your attitude is the problematic one? I mean, when 12 posters out of the millions of players who bought this game (which is precisely how many are complaining here, with multiple, repeated post each) assume anyone who can handle what they are incapable of handling, think too highly of themselves, well it says a lot to me, about the few complainers.

Oh bother.
People flock to what’s OP, it’s human nature. When you call it easy to play they get mad because they think you’re saying they’re playing an easy class, which would imply they aren’t skilled… how can someone’s ego ever handle that? Well.. better start arguing.

coglin.1867:

What profession do you play mainly? I run as a large guild and map commander on a T1 server, so I specifically get focus fired by 5 ranger groups. I lead in celestial, ascended gear. So it is not like I am pure tank. I use my shield block and shield reflect, s well kitten calling for reflection walls from my guardians.

Ah.. so as you, and the previous posters have pointed out… we should grab a reflect. Hmm… sounds reasonable. Let me make an anti-ranger build.. then comes along something non-ranger and you get rekt. B-but… reflects!
Sense? None.

So you want them to redesign the game around your build, because your not capable of handling something?

Post any build you like, and I can post a build that will exploit its weakness as much as any ranger will exploit certain builds.

I do not really get your point. All you keep saying is, “change the game to suit my build and play style”, then you back it up by complaining about how when you build for something else, a separate issue makes you vulnerable. Sorry, but that is how MMOs work when it comes to fighting other players.

The demanding they nerf other professions, based on your limited skill and willingness to adapt angle, really doesn’t work.

Linnael.1069:

The problem is that it feels unfair to play against, to a far worse degree than thief burst, which lets face it is pretty unfair already. Note that I’m not talking about “omy 1v2 so unfair.” I mean that there is pretty much no opportunity for you to even interact with the ranger. When a thief comes in they generally blow their mobility to reach you quickly, making it much easier to then run away from them immediately compared to the ranger who usually has mobility options on swap and doesn’t even need to close the distance.

Unfair to whom? You keep making statements. Yet they are only your opinion. You appear to confuse subjective opinion with objective fact.

Linnael.1069:

Against thieves defensive options feel useful. Not so much with the ranger.
As the thief blows initiative against your blocks/evades they lose damage options. As you run away from the ranger you’re furiously blowing big cooldowns just to deal with their autoattacks, and running away only makes the auto stronger.

“Feel” that way for who?
I am sorry, but pulling a ranger to me and downing him, or watching my reflect, eat his health, feels extremely useful.

Linnael.1069:

Basically, playing longbow ranger means that you could literally never ever have played ranger even once before, and still walk into a fight and totally leave somebody with 0 options. No other class does that as cheaply, and cheap is absolutely the right term here..

every profession does that as easily. You spam each of your post with generic buzzwords that every other forums complainer does, such as “cheap” and “cheesy”, that alone makes it feel as if you are regurgitating generic complaints. Unless you can literate precisely what actions rangers take to fit your random buzzwords, your really just spinning your wheels.

TakeCare.3182:

coglin.1867:

Watson.6492:

I don’t think rangers are problematic but to be fair it is really weird that this is a game where a ranger can just press 2 and instantly kill someone with zero setup.

That only works with very bad player. Rangers are fine. All this thread is, is a lot of complaints about how bad players are bad. Why should a profession be changed to compensate such bad players. Anyone to bad to handle a measly long bow, really deserves to die.

This attitude is problematic, tbh. There isn’t much any player can do, regardless of skill, when a ranger +1s a fight. There isn’t much any player can do, regardless of skill, when some ranger is sitting behind a huge frontline doing 3k damage per auto. You must think really highly of yourself. lol.

Perhaps your attitude is the problematic one? I mean, when 12 posters out of the millions of players who bought this game (which is precisely how many are complaining here, with multiple, repeated post each) assume anyone who can handle what they are incapable of handling, think too highly of themselves, well it says a lot to me, about the few complainers.

What profession do you play mainly? I run as a large guild and map commander on a T1 server, so I specifically get focus fired by 5 ranger groups. I lead in celestial, ascended gear. So it is not like I am pure tank. I use my shield block and shield reflect, s well kitten calling for reflection walls from my guardians.

I am not debating with you, what intelligent play may or may not provide in this case. I am explaining how it is proven fact, that it does.

You literally stated, that being auto attacked to death is your argument. If you do not have the situational awareness to take one step back, out for range, call for a reflect, use a reflect of your own, dodge out, or use a movement skill to get away, then you, are indeed, your own worst enemy, not a ranger.

Use a build editor to link your build, perhaps we can offer you some advice in how to adjust the build, or use the build you have, to deal with ranged damage.

Watson.6492:

I don’t think rangers are problematic but to be fair it is really weird that this is a game where a ranger can just press 2 and instantly kill someone with zero setup.

That only works with very bad player. Rangers are fine. All this thread is, is a lot of complaints about how bad players are bad. Why should a profession be changed to compensate such bad players. Anyone to bad to handle a measly long bow, really deserves to die.

Some of the "forced disagvantage " claims in this thread are comical. Everyone has equal opportunity to aquire the same ascended armor.

LucasCorso.3651:

I will lose 80% enjifun on www without Speedy Kits. And i think that this game will die for me after 23 june.

You can now have perma swiftness without a trait investment, and anyone who thinks a game loses players with an expansion coming in, apparently doesn’t understand how MMOs work. The 23 changes will bring tons of players back, and the expansion will bring tons of old and new players alike in, with the next two months.

Ardid.7203:

Mesmers & Thiefs abuse Stealth. Stealth stops being fun.
Engies abuse Lock On. Stealth AND Lock On stop being fun.
Stealth stop being used.
Lock on stop being used.
Repeat.

Cycle stablished: abuse->no use->abuse->no use->Ad infinitum.
Fun: lost forever.

Countering an abusive mechanic with another abusive, specific mechanic is simply stupid.

I am an engineer who learned to abuse stealth long ago. So I guess I get the best on both worlds.

I like most of the changes, at least most of them. I am waiting to try it out for myself before making claims about what will or won’t work.

(I love when people make the claim “I know I am right”, it always lets me know that they aren’t)

PistolWhip.2697:

Okay seriously who are these Engineers using med kit?

Healing turret is the go to heal, please, lets not be silly.

A fair amount of engies use med kit now.

Silly? Silly is claiming to know what heal players will use after an expansion, when we all know you don’t have a clue what anyone will use. You don’t even know what weapons skills and specialty trait line has to offer. So perhaps you should stick to speaking for yourself, instead of claiming you can tell the rest of us, what we will or won’t do.

CnaeusDane.2938:

Group play doesn’t mean you have to zerg. And running a group of 10 or 100 it’s still group play. And just because you’re allowed to play that way doesn’t mean it should be encouraged. It takes away from the WvW experience if you can only muster 10 people on your server and there’s 20 people who will wipe you every time. (Extremely simplified)

Why shouldn’t it be?

What statement from Anet are you using to support your argument? I came into this game, with the distinct impression, that it was specifically designed for large battles that me and my 40 guilds who are logged in, can all participate in, simultaneously.

This idea that large forces need to be artificially broken up, has no merit to support it, in my opinion.

I agree. I have seen some MMOs that had multiple ways to report cheaters. Separating hacker reports and exploiting reports, such as when players attack while standing in areas where they are invulnerable.

Again, you show your bias by promoting just how terribly your system harms the playtime of those with different free playtime then yourself. The selfish motives in themselves are harmful as it is. The fact that you flaunt your motives as justification to harm the game as a whole is even worse.

This idea is very bad. Nothing you claim, justifies artificially locking out players, simply because others have a different schedule.

I don’t get this entire mentally of allowing the score to dictate if you will play WvW and have fun, or not. In my opinion, the score is irrelevant as to whether or not I want to play with my guild and friends.

Fade.1743:

And…according to…the wiki, and the game, kits are listed under utility, not weapons. And none of those kits listed have cleave. AE? Yes. Cleave? No.

Kits are weapon sets, that take up a utility slot. You appear to think they have to be one or the other, yet they are both.

Smack and Whack, both have cleave, and are attacks from a kit.

It is possivle, thay for balancing reasons, epidemic will only share a limited stack of each condition.

The issue I see here, is that posters point t out the glaring flaws to the suggestion, and instead of aknowleding them, and adjusting your idea or perspective, you continue arguing for your idea.

Doesn’t it seem wiser to try to adjust your concept to eliminate the glaring issues, rather the arguing to justify them?

Lord of Rings.5371:

Random matchup does not have to be institute at the introduction of the Matched Entry System for all servers.

Matches can still be arranged like today with the same opponents JQ vs TC vs BG, FA vs YB vs SOS, etc.

But with the infrastructure build, WvW could have fair matches to shake things up.

Of course Top vs Bottom was used an extreme example.

A more likely case can be tried out with

JQ vs FA vs BG

or

BG vs YB vs FA

using the Matched Entry System which would give more balanced fights and fresh opponents that have not met for a long time.

And it could also help to balance out the lower servers amount their matches.

You have a very “strange” opinion of what a fair match up is, in my opinion.

In no way would I call it a fair mathup, if i am locked out of the WvW simply because opposing servers do not have players logging in, when I am logged in.

This bad suggestion could literally lock me out of WvW for a player like me who may only have 3 hours to play on a particular day. If the opposing servers have less players, I would be in queue the entire duration of my play time. This suggestion, is a terrible idea for many reasons. This is just one of them.

I have to agree with aspirine.

Stick to what you feel are more productive parts of the game then. I am not entirely sure why you are telling us though. At least that is one more slot for one of my guildies to get on the map.

I mean you asked if there are reasons to play WvW that you haven’t discovered yet, and the answer is yes and no. I cannot PvP with my entire guild anywhere outside of WvW. It is fun. I have made a very large amount of money by having 2 different precursors drop of bags from players.

You on the other hand, didn’t post here, looking to find more reasons to play WvW. You posted an angry post, looking for others to validate your gripe. That is evident when you claim that players are “bad” simply because they outnumbered you. My experience proves to me that being outnumbered, truly means nothing, when it is against bad players.

What is the complaint? Someone gave you sound advice to put it the the forum subsection that is most commonly seen by Anet employees, who make sure the proper devs see it.

PPT abuses, claims the OP? Someone is committing abuse, simply because they have a different schedule then you? That seems like a selfish accusation in my opinion.

Perhaps you should adjust your personal play time to combat those who play at times you take issues with. Wouldn’t that be an equally selfish expectation?

Nike.2631:

DresdenAllblack.1249:

It will either be August 28th (three years from launch), or after Halloween.

They are well past the time they would need to send out solicitations to stores to secure shelf space in August for the HoT boxes. We might see the change over to specializations in time for the anniversary, but HoT has missed that window.

That is an absolute false statement.

They are actually in fairly close stride this year, as they were with release year, as far as testing and betas go. Go back and look at the official release notification for retailers and compare it to how far out they are from the same date this your and it will disprove your claim.

kokiman.2364:

Malediktus.3740:

kokiman.2364:

It’s a legit tactic and people will come up with countertactics.

Will they? I have been waiting for a decent anti commander sniping tactic for months now. The only thing I see happening is that people contact the enemy commander and make a “contract” to not snipe each others commander.

I am pretty sure “they” will

Change your look.

There is nothing wrong with this tactic. It is a reasonable tactic, that breaks no rules.

As far as I am concerned, it says a lot about a player, that they demand game changes around what inconveniences them, rather then learn to deal with or adapt to the situation.

I believe it was changed last september 9th in that big patch.

I second that site. I was going to link it myself, but you beat me to it.

Taxidriver.2043:

Might as well just make 3 factions and let ppl join faction to fight eachother like Aika Online.

It doesn’t positively benefit your argument to site bad games, with really bad game mechanics, as your examples.

aspirine.6852:

Arkitech.9158:

problems tend to happen when programming. you have NO IDEA how many issues we would face without EXTENSIVE QA testing they do internally. Trust me you don’t know the half of it.

Extensive QA? Really? I have never seen so many bugs in any top game ever. This is embarresing to say the least. It’s almost amateur like.

You either chose to remember selectively, or have played very very few games then.

aspirine.6852:

Pretor.5193:

I love read that Baruch has a lot of “mexicans” as Piken, as FSP as jade and augury has canadian people…

This “mexicans” as you tell are normal ppl as you and me, so please get some respect.

Who says they are not? I call the canadians nightcapping canadians and I disaprove of them also.

So your bashing them and disapprove of them because they have a different time zone as you? That doesn’t seem very thought out to me. You are night likely night capping on them from their perspective.

It really is a shame, that some players are self centered enough, to declare it a negative thing to play different hours then them. Such a shameful perspective, in my opinion.

Jana.6831:

choovanski.5462:

one of my alts is a 44600 signet ranger with LB GS. i play its super in your face and aggressive, basically treating it like a static discharge engineer. perhaps I’m not a ‘ranger’ but I definitely dodge and have back up plans, as do all of the ranger mains i know. i have not noticed rangers being worse than players of any other class.

sure you get a lot of bad rangers, but most players of every class are bad because most players are bad. it’s not exclusive to ranger.

Good for you, but that wasn’t my point – my point is that the class is broken and doesn’t really fit into this game, unless you go all melee ranger which is “stupid” given that LB is that strong – again my point.

I do not think broken means what you think it means. Nor is playing a melee ranger “stupid”. It appears you are confusing your confuse your subjective opinion, with that of objective fact.

Jana.6831:

You seem to refuse to get my point, so I’m not so sure it makes sense to answer you any further.

You appear to have difficulty distinguishing the difference between someone getting your point and someone disagreeing with it.

Jana.6831:

A good ranger is “ridiculously OP” as they have a lot of useful skills but the regular ranger doesn’t know them as he doesn’t need them as his #2 burst is good enough.
Finally get my point?

I am not entirely certain OP means what you think it means. As well, I feel you associate LB ranger with “skilled player”, which is definitely inaccurate.

Jana.6831:

I never said ranger was easy to play just that the class itself promotes bad gameplay which leads to people calling ranger underpowered which leads to buffs which leads to good rangers being completely overpowered as they know how to play, unlike the usual ranger. And that is wrong. Make rangers use two or more skills to get their rapidfire, maybe that is a start.

Yeah, well you say a lot. yet you offer no reasoning or logic to support it. When you just toss out your opinion, pretend it is fact, yet avoid supporting it or even offering any reason to it, you are just spinning your wheels.

Your sure it would be because of a defiance bar? I will be hopeful for one, but it seems more likely to me that they refered to all the new support it appears we will have.

I seriously think intelligent players who care to know what is going on in their game certainly would.

Svarty.8019:

I think it’s highly likely;

• the sides aren’t even, and
• they aren’t telling us because we would take advantage of it

Likely?

Your claiming it is “likely” that something you have no evidence for, “likely” is the case? I do not believe you know what “Likely” actually means.

What is more “likely” is that you do not know what your talking about.

Sure I did.

1. What’s the point of going to the forums if you do not use the “dev tracker” to se what Anet post have to say?

2. It was on the Blog.

3. It was on reddit.

4. It was on dulfy

But sure, lets post some irrational claim of transparency, and blame Anet because you, personally do not know something.

Xillllix.3485:

When they designed GW2 some brilliant designer decided that immobilize would not stack…. Then about 1 year down the road, another designer, certainly not as brilliant as the initial designer, decided that people not able to move for 20 seconds was “no problem at all” and that immobilize could stack.

Thus the current perma-immobilize stacking was introduced in the game, against strong opposition on the forum, including my warnings, that were ignored by the developers as usual.

At least have a clue about the subject matter before you post about it. I dunno if you just lying, or simply posting about something you know nothing about, but these were not some random dev choices. The way immobilize functions now was demanded over and over, repeatedly by the population of forums posters, such as yourself. Thread upon thread was made until it was changed to its current form, by popular demand.

The thing is, no one likes being CCed, slowed, crippled, or immobilized. The thing is, no body will be happy with it, no matter how it works. If you want to be happy about an effect, talk about boons. Do not cry that negative status effects are negative. that is the point. Stack cleanses.

What always amuses me about these threads, is that people are complaining about them in the context of their own build at the time. You need to learn to adjust your build to the game, and not cry to the devs, insult them, and attack them, in bad effort to get them to conform the game to your build.

This guy gets it.

MithranArkanere.8957:

Immobilize has several bugs that need to be fixed, but other than that the condition is fine.

atheria.2837:

Michael Henninger.7451:

Match manipulation is a no-no.

So isn’t siege trolling manipulation?

Seems to many of us that spying in WvW in any manner hasn’t been addressed since it is manipulating both sides…

Not certain what your complain is, since he has an entire thread where he discuses how he is banning siege trolls, when he did ti, and what server they were on.

aspirine.6852:

coglin.1867:

aspirine.6852:

I almost wish it was back at the beginning when the thief was the rangers worst enemy. Now they have none?

With an engineer using reflect, 2 solid blocks, and magnet pull, and rocket boots to close a gap. I feel I am a natural predictor of the LB user. I have little difficulty dispatching rang e s with my warrior at all, and even less trouble when on my mesmer.

In my opinion if your having difficulty with a ranger, that is the fault of your own build and how you are playing it.

I’m not talking soloing, when was the last time you saw a roaming LB ranger. But in backline zerging they can snipe prety easy, No matter how good you say you are. I’ts the easiest job in the world, and very effective.

That is not a rational justification in my opinion. I can drop grenades all over a large group from 1500 range. for that matter I can use thief unload on you at 900 range. If your going to cry about one specific profession, using single target damage against you, when you are in a large scope battle, any damage from any profession focusing you in just as bad.

Crying about ranger damage when you die in a zerg clash doesn’t make any sense to me. I am very often PINed up, and I do not feel this is an issue for me to deal with. If I am playing a back line engi and use a 1200 range magnet to pull you back there to watch you get pounces on, are you going to cry that every profession with a pull is OP.

What is your main profession? I can gladly offer you suggest for your profession that you may not be aware of to deal with this issue. Then again, I can make an argument for how your chosen main is as or more OP then any ranger. It will be equally as rational as your argument.

How many hours do you have playing your ranger, in WvW anyway?

Then I would personally recommend sinister gear, since you like the condition damage, or rabid if you need a little more survivability.

Personally I do not care for condition gear when I am running static discharge.

Secondly, unless you specify Pve, PvP, or WvW, it is hard to offer an opinion, because answers will vary, depending on which one defines the context of the discussion.