i personally use adventurer for condition builds because dodging=surviving. can’t stress that enough. undead i don’t think is that good. nightmare is amazing but a pain in the kitten to obtain. some other good condi runes are perplexity, noble, antitoxin, and scavenging. pick one that you think goes best with your build. for example, if you’re not running a lot of interrupts, using perplexity is a waste.
engi bunkers will always take a backseat to warriors and guardians because they don’t have stability to stomp or res or stay on point, which is the bunker’s job.
The standard 10/0/30/30/0 has absolutly no problem to tank every profession on the node as long as the engi knows wich attacks to evade and not just sit on the node and spam #1 of the bomb kit.
like i said the engineer will always take a backseat to warriors and guardians because they don’t have stability to stomp or res or stay on point which is the bunker’s job.
engi bunkers will always take a backseat to warriors and guardians because they don’t have stability to stomp or res or stay on point, which is the bunker’s job.
i have a 5 button mouse. mouse4 is dodge and mouse5 is swap weapon and i don’t use the mousewheel button because it’s awkward. 1-5 are my weapon skills, z is my heal, q e r are my utilities, and f is my elite. my toolbelt is shift q e r and f. i don’t have any issues playing engineer nor would i ever think about buying a gaming mouse or keyboard or (lol)mousepad. i’d have to stock up on mountian dew and hot pockets and be prepared to give up sunlight if i went down that route.
i get bored very easily so i often experiment with different builds and traits in fractals 49. all of these performed adequately but most importantly i thought, for the most part, that they were fun to play. maybe you’ll find some of them to your liking. note that i only have one set of berserker gear and only one pistol, shield, and a rifle so all armor, sigils, and runes are going to be the same for all the builds.
nerf? you mean buff? only change i see for it is reducing cd when picked up
they mentioned the new buffed turret cooldowns when picked up like rocket turret and thumper turret. they didn’t say anything about healing turret having a reduced cd when picked up. i take that as healing turret will remain as a 15 sec cd when picked up, and a 30 second cd (up from 20) when detonated/destroyed as per the new 50% cd reduction change. an additional 10 seconds on the heal is a huge nerf. but i’m just speculating.
put 10 into tools and 10 into explosives. get speedy kits and forceful explosives. run bomb/grenade/whatever. elixir s, rocket boots, elixir gun, whatever you want. spam grenades and bombs and kite things around until you’re 80.
grenades are fine if you’re under level 60. i don’t know why everybody hates on non traited grenades. it’s for leveling. it’s not a dps race. i leveled my engineer with grenades and bombs when i was new to the game. it was easy and fast.
keep throwing grenades and planting bombs and running. don’t ever stop moving in combat. if you turn on free camera in the options, you can continue running forward while angling the camera to face behind you so you can throw grenades. 10 points into tools helps immensely with kiting.
seems fine to me. i;‘d use 409 instead of self regulating defenses. and i’d use the toxic focusing crystal and change sigil of agony to earth, blood, or torment. that way you keep your bleed duration for your autos and sharpshooter, gain an extra effect from your sigil, and ups your incendiary powder to a full 8 seconds. also rocket kick and blowtorch get an extra second of burning each.
your survivability is going to be an issue but that’s the life of a kitless build.
my original point was there’s so many people you can just auto attack and win. then you said i’m doing something wrong by just following the zerg and auto attacking. and now you’re saying i should just follow the zerg and auto attack! i’m so confused!
i never said i wanted to play by myself. i love playing with other people, just not when everything is mindless and staff guardians.
To those people who have actually gotten the game to load please spare a thought for those of us who have yet to actually see anything cause we are stuck on the loading screen! Client keeps timing out. I have super fast internet access, I upgraded my gaming laptop and it worked right up till this stupid patch!
I have tried tweeting, I have used google+ and have so far gotten nothing, no response, total silence.
Disappointed doesn’t even cover it.
i’m truly sorry. i hope you get this resolved soon. it was quite fun the first few times i ran it, especially the first time when the miasma came and i followed the dolyaks through the asura gate only to be transported nowhere. i didn’t make it to the real exit.
I have to agree with Kal, if you are just running around spamming auto attack its your own fault that you arent having fun, and is in no way Anet’s fault..
i think you have unlocked the secret to personal enjoyment in these recent LS updates. i thought i had it when the patch first came out but i lost it rather quickly. how do you personally play when you’re with 100 other people vying for as many loot bags as they can carry? my method yielded great monetary results but as you can see i’m still disappointed. what can i do differently so that if i decide to go into LA again, i can start enjoying myself?
sorry i wasn’t talking about server lag. i was talking about playing on highest settings and having 800 people around you fire their spells. it’s just unavoidable when you have giant open world content like this. i have to set my graphics to the lowest to avoid crashing and i hate how everything looks.
anyone else disappointed by the patch? it was pretty kitten cool at first but after 3-4 runs it’s just the same laggy zergfest that we’ve seen over and over and over and over again just in a different setting. we run from event to event and pray it’s not bugged so we can mash 1 and hope we have enough aoe damage to pick up loot. then the event’s over and you fail no matter how well you did and this process repeats for the next 2 weeks. to me it’s mindless, repetitive, tedious, and i personally have no desire to go back inside.
i would’ve rather seen lion’s arch turned into a dungeon where there’s no lag and what you do actually matters. it might’ve been actually somewhat challenging. there would also be the possibility of turning it into a pretty cool fractal later down the line. o well. i suppose i’m just disheartened and tired of the mindless zergplay that this game’s pve has become. anyone agree or disagree?
don’t expect the story to make sense. ever play the asura infinity ball personal story? future queen of the world you comes back to kill present you. but if present you dies, then future you doesn’t exist! haven’t you seen back to the future anet?
take a berserker build like 30/30/0/0/10 grenades. swap berseker gear for rampager gear. bam you have a pseudo condition spec that’s not as good as full zerk.
my fault i was thinking wvwvw. it’s more around 4-6 bleeds in tpvp. and yes other conditions have everything to do with buffing pistol auto. when they added dhuumfire to necros, they had to scale down the bleeds from their other abilities. majorly buffing pistol auto to apply even more bleeds and vuln is adding to the already powerful condition engineer build. things will get nerfed.
pistol auto is good because you can stack ~8 bleeds with continuous fire. bomb/ft builds use it as their primary source of bleed. grenade engineers use as they’re closing a gap because grenades at long range are easily dodged. having the pistol stack even more bleeds and vulnerability when the grenade kit already stacks a lot of bleeds and vulnerability on top of the near permanent or permanent burning, the confusion, the poison, etc etc… how can you say that’s not op?
and i wasn’t trying to derail the thread. explosive shot doesn’t benefit from explosive traits because of obvious balance reasons. it’s the same reason why elixir gun abilities don’t receive the benefit elixir traits. it would just make it too strong.
in a pve scenario sure. but in pvp it’s really good and the skills aren’t split. condi engis are already extremely strong. hvaing it stack more bleeds and apply vuln is just lols. instant nerf.
bombs, grenades, throw mine, their toolbelt abilities, and tossed elixirs if traited with acidic elixirs. also turret explosions are affected by explosive powder.
for a boss where i am able to stand in one spot and press 1 once to win, yes. if taking an extra 15 seconds to kill it upsets you then i’m sorry. find a guild of 100% pve tryhards. sometimes i just want to play my keyboard or guitar, or watch a tv show, or surf the web. after doing the same dungeons for the past year, i’ve earned the right to occasionally slack off!
pve is so easy anyway. it’s not like pvp where you can throw the game by using a lesser build. a dungeon run is always a guaranteed win.
make sure use free camera is checked in your options. that way you can turn the camera as you run forward by holding left click. you can then proceed to unload millions of grenades behind you while running forward.
and you just can’t use grenades if you mouse move.
with shield, tool kit, elixir s, and grenades, the only burning you have comes from IP. if you fight a spirit ranger or a mesmer or a mm necro and you proc burning on something useless, it’s a wasted cd. it’s unreliable burning. being able to control your condi bursts is huge and pistol 4 is huge burning damage. i don’t have anything against taking IP + shield. i’d just swap tool kit with bomb kit if i went down that path.
i prefer backpack regen for this build because you are sufficiently tanky enough to survive a few stuns. backpack regen is amazing. it heals for over 7000 every minute.
i swear by adventurer runes. after using them for so long i can’t use any other rune especially after the vigor nerf. you can never have too much endurance. it will save your life.
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