Guild Wars 2

Engineer technology really developed with the Charr first and foremost. And its one of the specialties developed by the Charr Iron Legion. When we talk about the Engineer he is very much a Combat-Engineer and good in inventing things that are useful in a combat situation. The Iron Legion is the start of all of this, and the Engineer profession has spread to the other races from there. The People of Tyria have seen it in combat over the past few years and have seen the effectiveness of an engineer. And so you are going to see Engineers of all races although it is a little bit more common to see a Charr Engineer than anybody else. So it all started with the Charr and their technological development

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Engineer

Shall I reach one arm out to the sky, kneel on the opposing knee, and state, in a loud shakesperean tone

“Ahh but sir, you are mistaken. It is indeed you, who needs assistance down the clear road to sense”……………………….“Stop trying to cut the path. No longer trudge the trenches with eyes turned back.”……………………..“look forward to that smooth, well lite path. The answer is there, at its short end. You simply refuse to see it, over, and over, and over, …………………again”

I am thinking it would work with more of a “Taming of the Shrew” style of humor and obvious overstatements. Your thoughts?

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

coglin.1867:

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

The point isn’t so much whether it’s OP or not, but rather that it’s a stupid design. You shouldn’t be punished for defending yourself.

I disagree. I feel it is an absolutely brilliant design. You shouldn’t be rewarded for spamming skills while not being aware of your surroundings.

Similarly, you shouldn’t be rewarding for not carrying enough condition removal. Too many people focus to much on offense, then blame the game when they dye due to a lack of defensive capabilities. Such a dreadful shame to see folks unable to accept responsibility for their own mistakes if you ask me.

It’s not spamming though… It’s ANY attack at all.. If you attack someone while you have confusion on you, regardless of whether it’s spam or not, it damages you. If you’re using Perplexity runes, odds are it’s YOU that’s doing the spamming to keep as many confusion stacks on your opponent as possible.

My advice, to be honest, is to stop spamming long bow at 1500 (talk about hypocritically pointing fingers over so called advantages) and drop a healing spring, pop that brown bears skill, trait that empathic bond, and cleanse that one little single condition, right out of your soul…………………..Heck, just do what all them crazy hipsters are doing now a days, and use survival of the fittest and load up on those survival set of utilities and your golden.

style.6173:

1. It is a karma train here. There is no point in defending.
2. Less open field fighting
3. Havoc teams are LESS effective. If we can convince someone to sit in a tower, they can easily see when a havoc team attacks now. It is MUCH better to stay in the blob and just knock down any defenses.

I am from JQ in T1.

1. Not even close. It may have went like that for the first week at most. After that the rest of us learned to run a rotating net of scouts/roamers.

2. I think your absolutely wrong. I am seeing quit the opposite. What time frames are you playing 2 A.M. to sunrise?

3. Yeah right, because white swords were doing havoc teams a favor. All it was before was that white swords did it for you. Now you actually have to do it yourself. Havoc teams can catch a guard slacking, or on the other side of hills or bay and more often then with white swords, get in before their location is discovered.

Tspatula.9086:

coglin.1867:

Personally I feel posters need to stop blaming the devs for avoiding the community, and start blaming the community and the fact that it makes threads like the one I linked.

Really? What a surprise!! by the way, Michael H. isn’t a developer, he is game support. He is doesn’t have ANYTHING to do making changes to WvW. nice try though… Do you even play WvW?

You should do some research before you make claims. He absolutely does participate in what occurs in wvw and the decision s the evil be it. Look it up.

post like the one you just made though are precisely why he may rue being hear at all. Good job at being part of the provlem and not the solution sir.

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

The point isn’t so much whether it’s OP or not, but rather that it’s a stupid design. You shouldn’t be punished for defending yourself.

I disagree. I feel it is an absolutely brilliant design. You shouldn’t be rewarded for spamming skills while not being aware of your surroundings.

Similarly, you shouldn’t be rewarding for not carrying enough condition removal. Too many people focus to much on offense, then blame the game when they dye due to a lack of defensive capabilities. Such a dreadful shame to see folks unable to accept responsibility for their own mistakes if you ask me.

I dunno what the problem is. There have been post on here with in the last 3 days.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Ingame-GMs-do-they-exist/page/3#post4647825

You act as if the sky is falling simply because it isn’t on the front page.

If you want a dev post to stay on the front page, then everyone needs to stop spamming redundant threads, daily, demanding more dev post. It ironically buries the recent dev post.

It is almost comical how poster spam over top of each other remaking the same thread because they feel their voice is too important to go onto on of the many existing threads on the exact same topic. Then when these repeat after repeat after repeat threads bury dev post, everyone acts as if they never existed.

How many pages back did you look? As this moment, the 3 day old dev post was on the 2nd page.

Oh and by the way. Steaming Piles of uninformed mushroom food such as this thread bellow, are a reason I would avoid the forums as a dev.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Cheating-Dev/first

I mean you have a clown trying too look cool by making false claims and spreading misinformation simply because several devs got online to mix with the players and test and train on some new dev features.

Personally I feel posters need to stop blaming the devs for avoiding the community, and start blaming the community and the fact that it makes threads like the one I linked.

I would love to carry on, thanks for asking.

I would like to start by mentioning again, that not only have you made a clear effort to avoid some of my earlier question, you ignored the ones in the post you just quoted. I made a conscience effort to offer detailed and honest answers. Why are you refusing to extend the same courtesy to myself and some others in your own thread? I would settle for a answer to the question(s) in my latest post my friend.

Luna.9640:

I can play the question game too

Yeah, but the difference is, you ignore mine because your answers bring the flaws in your suggestion to light. At least that is what I believe. Hard to say since your not answering them

Luna.9640:

Why do you like to be stuck in queues while your friends play ?

Not a problem I have. There is generally one map without a cue. If they are all cued, it is generally relatively short, but I much prefer a few minutes of queue time to your idea of forcing me to jump through hoops to get on the same server/map as those I have developed comrodery with.

Luna.9640:

Why don’t you add those folks with who you have good history as your friends ?

Do you know what the cap is on friends list? Some I simply had no need to add because I saw them daily. Adding folks to a friends list in the heat of battle and motion of map roving is difficult. A unnecessary step when i see them every day. And both them and myself occasionally take time off.

Luna.9640:

Why do you think people don’t want any tools to help them improve World vs Worlds ?

I never suggested anyone doesn’t want tools to improve WvW. I simply suggested that I do not want you over complicated system that forces players to require toput effort into using tools in order to play with those that they play with now, and requires no tools beyond logging in.

Luna.9640:

Why do you assume PvE Mega-servers don’t work as i’ve claimed ? Can you provide me with any data on that ?

I do not assume. It is common knowledge. Would you like some recent you tube channel links that verbilize it and go into detail explaining it? I have 10 or so of my own from trying to get coordinated parties into triple trouble or Teq. As well as videos displaying how a group can enter EotM at the same time, and even though from the same server, guild, and even in the same party, they do not get in the same map together on the same team.

So yes, I can provide you with tons of evidence if you are actually that far out of the loop. Sorry, I gathered that anyone fighting such a hard fight for their idea, as you are, would be aware of the facts and functions first.

Luna.9640:

Have you ever tried all the things you imply or assume related tho this ideas ?

What are you referring to specifically? How many times have you tried them yourself?

Luna.9640:

What do you do when there is no one on the borderland maps and Eternal Battlegrounds have queue ?

I do not encounter this problem. I general see a fairly even spread. In my experience we tend to use common sense among guild leader and spread the major guilds out between BLs and EB reasonably equivalent. At the very least, we go for one experienced pin per map and one inexperienced pin to shadow them, on each map. Their respective guilds go along with them, and we let the smaller guilds and solo players distribute themselves in the mix. As a general rule, this developed a culture of this early on and it tends to happen organically now.

Luna.9640:

What is your approach towards a new guild which transferred to your server and do not want to be part of your server community ?

Not sure this is ever a problem. 99% flat out want and enjoy the coordination as far as I can tell, and the other 1% paid for the game with their own money, so they are entitled to play as they wish, and we work around what they are doing in a small way.

Luna.9640:

I have a very long list do you have time to answer ?

Well yes. As is evidenced by this post in itself.

If you think that is a long list, you should come to work with me one day. That is nothing compared to the systems trouble shooting list I walk into every day.

Where are the players coming from then, to fill those so called gaps?

Why do you assume servers do not have community guilds? Simply because they know there are players they want to see again who have not joined the guild.

You do realize guilds have caps right?

Have you ever been to PvE? The servers there do not get people in the same map simply because you claim they are “prioritized”. Thus, questioning that is extremely reasonable. players in the same server, guild, and even group, very very often do not even get in the same map without having to finagle the system ans spam “join member” over and over to get in the same map.

Why do you falsely assume players want tools to allow us to play together. As of now all we have to do to play together is log on. Why should I be required to use tools to find folks I have a good history with already?

If it is already common knowledge that the PvE, mega server system, almost never works as you claim, why would we want to move it to WvW?

Have you ever tried to go to EotM while in a group and not be on the same map or team? It happens as often as not. Yet your sitting here suggesting it will work in this case?

Luna.9640:

It’s okay not everyone is capable of having opinion to provide feedback aiming for improvement.

Why are you alienating and attacking anyone who disagrees with you?

Sure seems to me that ………………..

X T D.6458:

this is just a bad idea man, population problem will be worse when nobody is in wvw anymore because its turned into EoTM.

This is both feedback AND having an opinion for improving it it. This displays how not to make it worse. As I see it, preventing your idea from destroying it is an improvement to your ideas.

Luna.9640:

Luna.9640:

-Those problems are eliminated with the raid system I’ve mentioned since you can take to your map anyone you want – no more queues,trolls and large guilds transfering to your server to fill 1 of the maps for themselves.

Your not getting it.

What if we do not always know who we want? How many players on your server who are not in your guild or not on your friends list, do you run into and help or get help from, and go ……………………………………..“oh yeah, I remember that name, I like this guy, he always helps me out”…………………………………Now unless I have this guy in my guild or friends list, I will never see them again, because your system wedges a gap between the players I am in guild with or “friends listed with” and those I play with regularly.

How do I maintain play time as team mates with those guys under your system when they are not on my guild or friend list?

Luna.9640:

It’s my experience and my idea – we can talk about me but this topic is about my idea and what I’ve suggested based on my experience.

You should edit the OP to say that specifically, yet yu do not.

Luna.9640:

If you’re not here to provide any feedback than you can enjoy current state of World vs world and not be part of this discussion.

I have. I specifically stated that on my server queues appear to work differently to me, and to my knowledge everyone does not queue up for EB first as you claim. You ignored that and failed to reply.

As well I asked multiple questions about how you see your ideas effecting specific aspects, and you have avoided answering them. I can only guess it is because the obvious answer damages your argument so you ignored them out of convenience, but that is simply my opinion.

Luna.9640:

I don’t need trolls but creative people who can brainstorm with us here like other people who posted on this topic did – providing feedback or their own ideas.

I see. So instead of answering my questions, and addressing the fact that I simply disagree because my experiences on a different server, vary from yours, you chose to continue ignoring my constructive questions and make personal attacks? How constructive do you feel you are being when doing that?

Since you prefer to make personal attacks rather then scrolling up and answering my questions, I will quote myself in the post I asked them in (that you conveniently ignored)

coglin.1867:

You post that in a manor in which it appear you are implying your opinion has more value because of a community you claim to be a part of. What community would that be?

coglin.1867:

how does your multi map suggestion keep folks organized?

coglin.1867:

I have a very large community outside of my guild (as do others I know) who want to stick together. How does your idea not destroy that?

coglin.1867:

What do you do when one of the 3 (teams?) has enough to populate 5 maps, and the other two teams do not? Do they sit in queue for hours?

Novuake.2691:

Still not acceptable IMO but okay…

I agree. I tend to ignore tween style, text speak post. I have posted a few times from work, on my phone as well, but I type out the actual words. Nothing against the poster, but my feelings are that if a poster doesn’t take what they are saying serious enough to type it like an mature individual, then no one else needs to be take what they post seriously either. Again, not picking on the OP specifically, just how I see it in general, but in this case it is applicable to mention.

oneply.9586:

Zenith.6403:

“why are there no devs on the forum?”

“why is WvW not developed?”

Spend 1 year developing a map that is very different, varied and has some interesting ideas. See responses like this:

Kanebrake.6192:

Undeniably well deserved “rage and hatred” because eotm is garbage.

never again!

have you not paid attention to the pvp forum that has been a non stop insult the devs fest since dec 2nd? yet at least Justin is still there answering.

I love the ridiculousness of this thought process.

Paraphrasing this here: ’ Uh, er, um, well they let one particular dev get verbally abused, by rude people, in an entirely different sub forums, about a different game mode entirely. there fore, they should force WvW devs in here to be verbally abused by those who have already proven they can spam similarly rude comments "

Tspatula.9086:

I love fanbois. Spend a year making a map without any input from the players, bug test it, continue to ignore players, release it, proclaim new WvW content that is just more PvE content in reality, ignore players, see hundreds of negative posts about it, ignore players, do nothing in WvW.

Never again? really? How a bout “not gonna start”. You let me know when the devs START doing something for WvW.

Thats all false. They added more choke points, various mechanics and destructible bridges, all specifically requested on the forums, as well as about 20 other specifically requested aspects.

just because they didn’t add what you agree with doesn’t mean they ignored the players, they simply went with what they felt was most popular ot that appealed to them.

Luna.9640:

I don’t imply anything – I share my experience from past 2 years and what other people have shared with me and provide you all with my idea for improvement.

I can easily say the same for you that you imply stuff but i wont – instead can you provide with better idea or provide feedback on what part of my idea is bad and why ?

Yes you imply a great many things, you post almost nothing about your server and literally encompass WvW in its entirety in your claims. I only claim to speak for myself and my experiences on my server I played on, so no, you cannot say the same for me. For example you literally claim that “everyone” queue’s for EB first. I have never known that to be the case on my server. What happens on your server is not necessarily representative of every other server, yet you post as if it is.

As well, I did point out a massive flaw in your suggestion (other then projecting your personal experience on the entirety of WvW as a whole), but you ignored it and what I said and asked. My direct questions toward you and how it effect server communities went unanswered by you.

Luna.9640:

coglin.1867:

Luna.9640:

The difference is that you cannot see Organized guild raids in EoTM or EB (happens sometimes) – because they cannot get their raid members inside and choose to go to borderlands and try to face other organized guilds.

It is difficult to take you seriously when your making disingenuous claims of this nature. We have 72+ servers across 3 regions and you sit here and claim to suggest you have the slightest idea of who can or cannot get into EB? How many times have you switched servers to claim to know what happens on them all?

I can speak of my own experience and claim what i have go through.

On top of that i’m part of one of the biggest Guild Wars 2 communities and heard many sharing same experience as mine.

This may be different in bronze tier.

You post that in a manor in which it appear you are implying your opinion has more value because of a community you claim to be a part of. What community would that be?

You suggest you base your comments off of your own experiences, yet you claim raid guilds cannot get into EB which is untrue. As a JQ(T1) WvW player since the start, it is easily coordinated. As a general rule, smaller groups will often relocated when asked to make room for organized guild groups. Not all, but generally enough for my 30-40 man guild group to get in.

By the way, how does your multi map suggestion keep folks organized? I have a very large community outside of my guild (as do others I know) who want to stick together. How does your idea not destroy that?

What do you do when one of the 3 (teams?) has enough to populate 5 maps, and the other two teams do not? Do they sit in queue for hours? Everything about your suggestion, as far as I can see it, will fracture and destroy the the community of players that I have now, that can populate 4 maps and have a queue.

Luna.9640:

The difference is that you cannot see Organized guild raids in EoTM or EB (happens sometimes) – because they cannot get their raid members inside and choose to go to borderlands and try to face other organized guilds.

It is difficult to take you seriously when your making disingenuous claims of this nature. We have 72+ servers across 3 regions and you sit here and claim to suggest you have the slightest idea of who can or cannot get into EB? How many times have you switched servers to claim to know what happens on them all?

It gives 3 stacks for 5s every 25s. Unless you allow yourself to be stunned, then it is your fault. That is nothing compared to the condition damage some builds can get out of other runes.

I find it a bit comical that posters “claim” only bad players use runes that said poster simply dislikes. These runes have no where near the damage out put of runes of balthazar, Orr, Krait, and others, to any player with enough sense to dodge interrupts, and intelligently manage conditions on themselves. Aristocracy, Hoelbrak, and Strength are going to be more dangerous to you then 3 stack of confusion with a 20% up time.

Novuake.2691:

Maskaganda.2043:

it was already nerfed. it’s not that strong.

When?
What was done? I don’t recall them touching them since they got introduced.

They nerfed them twice. Originally they didn’t even have an ICD on the interrupt. They added one. Then they upped the cool down on the “on hit” application. And i agree, they are not particularly strong.

What annoys me the most, is that the last time I tried to use it, it wouldn’t even let me drop the healing mortar on myself. Because it also has a minimum range.

OP, how many hours do you have on the engineer?

I feel the kit is good. I use it from time to time, but I favor the bomb kit on a personal level. The discussion varies depending on what game mode aspect we are discussing it in.

It would be ridiculously stronger the Mesmer shatter strip. The cool downs on the tool belt skill are ridiculously lower then the mesmer shatter skills.

I know Sunday and Monday on yaks bend we had a 15+ queue on all 4 maps for several hours.

Tongku.5326:

No matter what if anything at all they do now, it is too little, too late. The ship has left the harbor ….

As a Tier 2 server player who had 20+ queue on all four of the WvW maps in the evening all week, I do not think you know what your talking about.

SilverWF.4789:

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

You’re an engineer and want to deal with Retaliation? Try Throw Mine and healing.

Made my day, thanks!

There is only one who misunderstanding – misunderstanding role and playstyle of the engineer – you.

No I think he gets it.

Personally, I feel that if you have access to boon strips, and do not run them, you have no right to complain about boons others are using.

Nokaru.7831:

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

Retaliation is not up 24/7 like people insist except in the most organized of groups. Otherwise, there are always people without. Find them, target them, kill them. Don’t want to take the time to find those that don’t have Retaliation, but want to spam AoE anyway? Your fault.

Things don’t really work that way in Tier 1.

As a player from JQ who started there and played there for over two years, I say your incorrect. I just recently transferred to YB with my guild (well about 3 months ago) and we are fighting DB and it is little to no different then when JQ was fighting BG or TC. And I am stating that from the position of a long time commander using an engineer.

Novuake.2691:

Personally I think Vitality is completely useless on an Engi

Given the profession having the most limited access to condition removal, I find the ability survive through absorbing them with more vitality is extremely valuable.

Phineas Poe.3018:

The rune is only good if you’re properly interrupting your opponent. How does it not teach you to use your skills right? If anything it does a lot more of that than wearing Nightmare, Balthazar, or whatever else you could put in its place.

There was a time when it was absolutely overpowered. Then they nerfed it, and then nerfed confusion in WvW. There’s nothing imbalanced, cheap, or lame about it now.

I completely agree. As I see it, it was never “cheap” or “lame” any more or less then half the other builds out there. I simply think it was a pathetic attempt at those who dislike it only when it was used against them, to adhere a childish stigma to it.

Thaddeus.4891:

I’m just saying that you can’t argue that this weapon should have less dmg than a melee simply because its a range weapon.

Actually you can. You keep making definitive claims on matters of opinion.

The bad part is that I do not disagree with you. I still feel that bomb Auto attack should have a 10%-20% damage increase do to the risk/reward difference. The difference is that I have more sense then to claim “you can’t argue that this weapon should have less dmg” because to me that is an disjointed as claiming to forbid someone from having a differing opinion.

Similarly I dislike the cool down ratios when compared to functionality between the two. I think smoke bomb should have a native 20s cool down, Concussive bomb should have a native 15s cooldown.

Jerus.4350:

The beauty of editing is you can completely mislead people by omiting information in an attempt to twist the meaning.

What meaning is twisted? He was literally arguing that they were not a ranged weapon simply because you can shot gun them.

Jerus.4350:

And “Play how you want” I always thought referred to the fact that you have options on how to play, not that everything will be equal and accepted by everyone.

I don’t disagree. I was simply verifying that the statements exist in print. Obviously it is intended to be open to interpenetration, that is what marketing folks do.

I am a huge proponent of the bomb kit as well. Unlike Rozbuska, Ido not like FT in zergs at all (personal opinion, I am not suggesting his WvW build is bad by any means). Part of that is because in my experience, in zergs, I get just enough lag to be unable to reliably water field with flame blast. As well, I do not feel like my concern as a player in a large force is to merely “tag” enemies for bags. That aspect falls to the bottom of my list.

Cancer Phineas? Seriously? Regurgitating the latest, brainless buzzwords? I thought you were better then that. Personally, I find it comically shameful that the community thinks it means something to use derogatory terms to describe optimal builds simply because they do not like them. Kind of thought we left that behind in middle school.

Sole purpose? No, they are not the purpose, they are part of the design though.

If you are asking is you can use P/P or P/S can be used reliably as sources of damage without kits, I would say no. Simply because you will be out damaged by basically every build on every profession.

Thaddeus.4891:

Wow people are obsess with that play how I want. I want to play an undead unicorn vomiting lava and giving poison with farts, do I whine about not being able to do that on the forum?

The difference is, they are displaying a level of reason ability by referring to existing professions in the game that actually exist in a game that literally has advertisements that claim things such as “play it your way” or “play how you want”.

Thaddeus.4891:

No I keep that in private with my guildmate geez.

Yeah well you also claimed:

Thaddeus.4891:

Nades are not a range weapon

Thaddeus.4891:

Nades are not a range weapon if you use them in melee and if you use them in range, they won’t have as much dmg as bomb. You lose on boons and it’s harder to land all your nades.

I do not think melee and range means what you think it means.

A melee weapon set is one that is clearly designed to be used in melee range only. Bombs have literally no range, and therefor are by default, a melee weapon set.

Grenades have a range of up to 1500. simply because you can use them at a lesser range, does not change the fact that they are a ranged weapon set. Anyone one who directly claims “Nades are not a range weapon” is very misinformed in my opinion.

As well, I feel you have no comprehension of the profession as a whole if you are going to sit here and claim that landing grenade attacks are more difficult then landing bomb attacks.

I do not mind that the OP made a thread to air his opinion, how ever misguided I feel it might be. What I mind about the OP is that he is airing in inaccurate and uninformed opinion. As I see, you have no business starting a new thread to cry about a subject you do not understand.

Rainmaker.7594:

•untraited grenades should only have a reduced range. you should not be able to throw something farther than you can shoot a gun.

Really? this your your path of logic? So your okay with the fact that professions can clone themselves instantly, wave a stick and call down a meteor shower, or lay down bombs at their own feet, and only have them damage others? Can you be any more disingenuously hypocritical then trying to justify real world physics to a fantasy game?

Yet one of the tragedies of white sword is that they punished small groups for not running with the zerg, by ratting them out. All the while, allowing the other side to run full zerg by allowing them to know where attacks are without splitting up in the least bit.

robotempire.2451:

I feel kinda bad because you obviously spent a lot of time putting together your thoughts on this, but no one has responded.

For me personally this kind of imagineering is cool and all, but without more communication from ANet there’s no reason to believe there’s any reason to talk about this stuff.

Why should they respond? they have commented on all of this stuff. They have made massive CDI discussion, blog post, and participated in many many threads on this matter already. They do not need to reaffirm their position on the daily threads of this matter.

Why is it, that every time a post pops up of this nature (pretty much once a day) do folks disingenuously post as if every time the do not respond to the new one, that they ignored the topic?

In my opinion, most of those ideas are horrible. Garrison nearly invulnerable, what a terrible idea, then no one will try to take it, and we lose the great massive 3 way fights there

Garbage EoTM maps forced in to WvW, just no

Starting with absolutely nothing on any borderland other then yours? then why would anyone leave their own BL? This idea completely promotes an absolute lack of fights. Funnels everyone to EB.

Personally I feel the Op does not understand WvW in the least, based on how the suggestions seem so unreasonably unrealistic. Every suggestion promotes locking down in each of the servers own borderlands. No one ever going there to fight, and the only place that will matter is EB. WvW will have dead borderlands on full servers, and everyone will be in queue for EB. This list near destroys the fun of the game mode as a whole.

I apologize OP, I am not trying to be mean to you, but I feel these suggestions are so bad, and so harmful to WvW, that I would express my emotions on them as aggressively as they came to me. You offer no explanation as to how each suggestion would help in your eyes. That does not help your points at all.

Stark.1350:

I’d also like to add, given the increased difficult this would obviously have on attackers, to increase rewards for taking something over.

I play for the fun, with my friends and guild, not for rewards. I much prefer my reward to be fun fights rather then minimize the fights to be a rarity just so I can get more loot on the rare fights we do see.

The Baws.5164:

The thing I hate most about retaliation is its stupid scaling. Try playing an Engi in a zerg and you will realise why retal is ridiculous. 4 or five nade auto attacks and you’re down.

And don’t say “oh qq more engi” when one overpowered buff completely makes any hope of playing one of the 8 classes in a zerg close to impossible, making them obsolete in one of the growing parts of the game.

coglin.1867:

Then you have not bween paying attentuon since beta. Engineers have a melee AoE concussion bomb that AoEs confusion as well as a ranged AoE confusion. Sonic shriek is a cone AoE confusiin.

And what on earth is Sonic Shriek? There is no cone AoE confusion in this game. There is a cone daze on Necro war horn. What I think you’re referring to is the Engineer pistol 3, Static Shot, but that bounces 4 times applying 2 stacks of confusion on each bounce. Not really AoE cone.

Someone linked it for you already. I always enjoy when people claim something doesn’t exist, when I use it every day.

As to engineer, I have been a engineer commander since release on JQ. Along with Boomstick, and about 8 more engineer commanders I could name. You seem to make a great deal of statements that do not reflect the reality of what occurs in game. If you actually think engineers are obsolete, PM me, I will gladly teach you a thing or two.

BurrTheKing.8571:

You’re right about the protection, however Stability doesn’t really help much either. I mean it’s primary use is for stomping or denying follow up control. I don’t see you getting much use out of that.

Why would you alienate 95% of the engineer community by restricting this to a spvp context? This would greatly benefit the WvW community and be handy in PvE, yet you argue against it simply because it doesn’t benefit the current sPvP meta?

The V is spot on in my opinion, about having gadget traits effecting the tool belt aspect.

the largest prolem, as I see it, is that the lack of weapon was designed into the profession to work with kits, which I enjoy. The problem that causes though, is that for each kit used, a large percent of trait investment in gadgets becomes negated, because they effect less utilities due to the slotted kit(s).

DarkSyze.8627:

Jim Hunter.6821:

Why is it everything that kills you is “no challenge”? Thieves, condi’s, and now hammer warriors. These are 3 very different fighting styles, maybe the problem is you.

Think, If take 1 skill to do same over and over?

These skills have cooldowns. No one is using them over and over anymore then you are using your skills over and over.

Then you have not bween paying attentuon since beta. Engineers have a melee AoE concussion bomb that AoEs confusion as well as a ranged AoE confusion. Sonic shriek is a cone AoE confusiin.

SilverWF.4789:

There is no way to apply confusion to multiply people. Basically, there is no AOE-confusion.

That is completely false. There are in fact multiple AoE confusion skills.

gennyt.3428:

coglin.1867:

aspirine.6852:

X T D.6458:

I think he meant it as seperate issues, guard staff 1 is to easy to tag 5 players, and aoe group retal can be kept up permantely, seems to be his complaints.

And it seems to be true. When you meet a zerg take a look at your log. It’s wave of wrath times 100.
And dont come here and tell me that group retaliation is not a problem in wvw.

I will absolutely tell you I do not fell retaliation is a problem. As I see it, you should stop spamming auto attacks then complaining that it doesn’t favor you.

It is a particular problem for engineers too. FT AA, grenade AA, bomb AA, pistol AA, rifle AA, all are native AoE skills and force the profession to suppress their AA in large fights. Why is it only problematic when it is a guardian?

The funny part, is guardian is one of the largest culprits for giving retal and laying fields that offer retal if blasted. To complain about taking retal damage seems a bit hypocritical to me when it is discussed from a guardians perspective.

I hope you are joking about “stop spamming auto attacks”. I’m guessing you’ve never been an Ele or power Necro dropping meteor showers/wells/ice bow on a much larger group you’ve pulled into a choke.

Why would I be joking? Why should someone be capable of painting the ground with red circles at range as a counter to strong melee trians, but complain when they counter mindless groud painting? (And yes, I very often play a power Necro and occasionally ele) but I think fair is fair in this case.

That is a worse idea. On the weeks I am working night shifts, thus playing at night on my days off, my effort and those of my friends, have less value. Why is one persons time more valuable then anothers?

All this suggestion does, is favor those who work bankers hours, and punishes the efforts of those who work longer or later shifts. If it is that important, why not invest the time in wise recruitment, instead of pushing to punish those with a different schedule?

Nice story OP. I notice you avoided mentioning whether or not you reported him. I agreecheating is a problem. Reporting them is the only attempt at a solution we have. Did you report them?

That would simply never allow anything to be upgraded and be the worst thing that could happen to the game mode. Every 8 hours the paper door/wall karma train will start, because nothing will ever be sieged up or upgraded.

Oh I am all for not being able to hard rez while in combat.

Though I do find it funny how everyone calls any group of 15 or more that they are competing against as “zerglings” or “the mindless zerg” but when they describe themselves doing it, it is always “my guild group” or “specialized group”. What always makes it funnier, is almost everyone post it in a manner to imply that it is obvious the group they are in always defeats the larger force or as in this case “destroys the zerglings”. Yet is making a 2nd thread to complain about losing to them.

EvilSantos.8412:

This promotes unskilled play by huge numbers vs small skilled numbers if all they need to do is resurrect the dead. Please make it so that while in WvW players in combat cannot resurrect dead players.

This is what everyone cries in the moment that it doesn’t suit them. I would be willing to bet that you have been more then happy to have other hard rez you when it served your needs.

I find the ability to get downed players up and the ability to hard rez dead players to be a great benefit to the game for both flavor and convenience.

McWolfy.5924:

What should be good is daily 2-3 map resets (not match, just reset maps)

Why? Punishes the team that takes a lead and spent the time to siege up locations?

X T D.6458:

Unless I am mistaken, it wasn’t always a weekly reset was it, wasnt the matchup for a month, man so long ago it seems.

I know for sure it was 2 weeks at one time. The forums were spammed with thread after thread demanding it was too long though. I can only guess that feedback prompted the change.

aspirine.6852:

But that’s stupid. You have to stop attacking because you are killing yourself, what do you want me to do. Tell them to go away? What good are aoe skills if you cannot use them?

Stupid? How so? It is a counter to mindless spamming of AoE AA by guardians in my opinion.

What do you want to see happen? You want a game mechanic changed in a manner that promotes AA spam for your personal convenience?