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Don’t know what to say to you…. but if you ever played a mesmer or a thief, then when you’ll play an engineer and people will start piling CC and their bullkitten combos on you, you’ll die a little bit inside. Just so much easier to avoid whatever they throw at you if you can stunbreak+blink with a single click. Sure you might be able to cleanse that immobilize, but what if an elem slams into you launching you then combos that into another cc… etc… if they have their CC+damage chain thought out, you are in real danger.
2 more things:
1. I hate taking Toolkit just so I have a shield skill. Apart from using magnet now and then, I really have no use for it in most builds. It also takes more time to respond with it in those twitch split second situations because you usually also have to switch into the kit.2. Cloaking device is really bad. Going invis won’t stop players from piling damage on top of you. It really only works in pve, and even there, if you’re solo it will reset the mob. Against players pretty much any other buff but invis would work better when immobilized. Against players I’d rather invest in things that counter CC, like prot on CC. Engineer really needs more abilities that can be activated while stunned.
Seriously, who the hell from ANet thought: you know what really helps when opponents make you immovable? Invisibility. They’ll never figure out what empty space to swing their sword at!!
fundamentally i agree with you tho to compare us to ele,thief,mesmer,or to a guardian we fail in every aspect so its not a fair comparison.
but i have some issues with what you said.
1)toolkit is a great kit and all five of its skills are useful aside from the obvious shield block, magnet is amazing don`t forget they nerfed our ft 5 skill backdraft that did exactly the same thing with added dmg because it was “op”.
you can pull ppl from points,stop res/stomps ,stop fleeing ppl (most of the time its thiefs/ele) ,stop a cast,if you run p/p pull for a pry bar & Blowtorch combo ect ect.
use box of nails for kiting,or to escape,use on points for conditions(aoe cripple is not the worst thing in the world i hope you agree nvm the bleed).
pry bar hit hard(in engineer scale ofc) and adds confusion which is great if a someone is up in your face.
auto attack gives vulnerability(well not that you ever use the skill or stack it but still).
using gear shield is more to predict things incoming then to react (great for hotjoin ppl that pop every thing in the first second of the fight `cough` d/d ele`s)and dont forget you can swap to a kit when your cc, so if you get caught with no stunbreak switch and prep your gear shield for use to stop whats coming next or just use it to buy some more time for a heal cd to get back up & you can cast it and switch back to the weapon and it wont cancel.
this way you can clutch use it.
2)as for cloaking device i take it in almost every build for a short immobilize its really good only thing that damge me most of the time is a warrior sword f skill.
sure it fails 2 out of 3 times but what engineer skill doesn’t,it frequently fails because to stop our weapon auto attack you need to uninstall the game.
the stealth duration usually is more than the immobilize like Maskaganda said and you can dodge away to a better spot to attack or disengage for a heal or any other cd.
ppl usually immobilize to prepare a burst this screw them over alot.
you may disagree this is just my view.
and i want to add that i want Juggernaut stability back!!! one source for stability that needs a kit and a grandmaster trait is not asking for too much.
and no toss s just don`t cut it.
(edited by cottage.3274)
(edited by cottage.3274)
as i see it there needs to be a middle ground here.
making the toolbelt all kits and since you want to unlink slot skills from toolbelt skills plus letting us pick and choose slot skills(from what we drop from the toolbelt+the existent slot skills) as we like ,
will effectively be too good, and smart and creative players will find a way to exploit it (in a good way like 100nabs which is very creative to use a aoe toolbelt kit skill for single target massive burst) and new engineers will fail and will be overwhelmed just from the sheer amount of options available.
and it will be heavily theorycrafted to min/max.
this will eventually conclude in a frequent big buff/nerf fix loop for a long time.
on the other hand
equiping one kit in the weapon swap slot suggestion i see here and there will reduce our versatility a lot to the point of self gimp since a lot of builds scrap that most builds use 2 kits and more leave the dmg factor out just to lose the utility makes it unplayable.
add to this that there is no real reward to play kitless and traits dont support this kind of gameplay.
and no one will drop the utility kits give you just to hit a bit harder, if they want to make it viable the dmg needs to be crazy.
and what you get is the mess we are in now.
some skillslot+tollbelt skills are op some up some just don`t fit and some have way way way to long cd.
as for me i would love them to leave the toolbelt as is ,make a new ui for kits outside of slot skills and let me get the 3 slots i want and the kits i need so i can play effective and be viable.
yep i know its a buff but we sure need one no?
