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Because SD doesn’t do that much damage, doesn’t work with all toolbelt abilities, and competes with two better traits!
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Grandmaster, Adept, and Master tiers don’t really matter anymore since if you pick a trait line, you get the whole thing! If all grandmaster traits swapped with adept traits right now, it wouldn’t make a difference!
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Cele is donezo! Your offensive pressure is all but gone in exchange for increased sustain from the Inventions tree (but not really enough to matter when it counts)! Or you could keep your offensive pressure but lose all mobility which defeats the purpose of the roaming nature of the build! Also the Speedy Kits/Invigorating Speed combo is gone! Condi builds are in the same boat! Finally, the age of power Engi is here! Somewhere in Canada, Chaith is pooping himself with joy! Nobody likes power Engis more than him!
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Hello frands! Vee Wee here, retired #1 Engi NA and world first rank 80!
IMO the Explosives trait line restricts a lot of potential builds! For example, a condition build that doesn’t run grenades has absolutely nothing to pick in the adept tier! The once popular Bomb Kit, Elixir Gun, Tool Kit build is just weak because they’re forced to take worthless Glass Cannon or Explosive Descent! A condi build that doesn’t run Bomb Kit has nothing to trait in the master tier! Shaped Charge? Worthless! Aim-Assisted Rocket? Not that great!
Suggestions:
- Combine Explosive Descent with Grenadier! They both deal with grenades! This frees up a slot in the adept tier for a condi focused trait for people who do not use grenades! As for what that trait is, I’m open to suggestions! A possibility would be to bring back some traits that were removed like Go For The Eyes with the rifle requirement removed! Or Acidic Coating! Or a new, more offensive condi oriented trait! The possibilities are endless!
- Remove Glass Cannon! Move Shaped Charge down to adept tier! Now gives +10% damage to vulnerable targets! This frees up a slot in the master tier for a condi trait for people who don’t use Bomb Kit, and it keeps the +10% damage bonus for the PvE players who like to maximize their damage output! It also gives power builds a nice option if they don’t run grenades or would rather run grenades with a damage boost!
This doesn’t have anything to do with the Explosives trait line, but I’ve also found Orbital Strike to be woefully disappointing! Traited with Siege Rounds, a grandmaster trait, this elite toolbelt skill only does slightly more damage than Throw Wrench traited with Power Wrench, an adept tier trait for a pleb toolbelt skill! Orbital Strike also has double the cooldown and an extremely obvious animation and a giant red circle! IMO the damage of Orbital Strike should be increased by 10-15%!
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Please change this amulet to 1200 power 900 precision 900 condition damage so it’s not so useless!
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There is always a better option than Runes of Undead! Adventurer, Balthazar, and Scavenging are all runes that I have used with success in the past! Post patch I’ve been using Traveler because of the loss of Speedy Kits! I’ve been having much success with it though grenades are currently bugged!
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Aim Assisted Rocket does not proc Shrapnel!
It’s not just you! The trait is worthless!
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Takes a double damage bug for a power Engi to match the burst of a Mesmer! Oh wellz!
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I’ve fired about 100 rockets at the indestructible golem and haven’t proc’d Shrapnel once! Has anyone proc’d Shrapnel off the rocket! If not, Anet plz fix!
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Med Kit should just self buff! Enough with the thrown bandages! It would actually be a good kit then! Make a trait that grants the effects in a 240 radius around you in alchemy! Replace the Elixir Gun boon conversion trait because it’s bad and nobody should ever or will ever take it over Backpack Regenerator!
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For PvP…
- Grenades are still the best kit! Mortar is for support-y fields but grenades still do the most damage by far, whether it be power or condition!
- I’ve been taking mortar! The fields are really good for teamfights and 1v1s! Supply Crate is really good too! Elixir X is still garbage!
- Flamethrower is still worthless! EGun has been super buffed with the HgH trait! Bomb Kit is strong in 1v1s, but still worthless in team fights! The cleave you eat is much greater than before with the power creep!
- The build I’ve been using has been Explosives, Alchemy, Tools! Grenade Kit + HgH Elixir Gun + Tool Kit + Mortar! Rifle, Marauder/Celestial, Hoelbrak, Energy/Battle! I’ve also been using Explosives, Alchemy, Firearms P/P condi with Traveler Runes to make up for the movement speed loss!
- Med Kit stinks! You have to cast the throwables then run over them to pick them up! You can easily die in between that! Or a teammate could pick them up! It’s just poopoo!
- Healing Turret is still king of Engi Heals! AED is still godawful and you’d still be better off taking Healing Turret over Elixir H even in a dedicated elixir build!
- Gadgeteer is terrible! There’s 2 issues with Gadgeteer! First are gadgets themselves! Why would you ever take multiple gadgets over multiple kits! With the way the Engi class is designed, Gadgeteer would have to beef up the power of gadgets exponentially to warrant picking gadgets over kits aka weapon swaps! Maybe the trait could empower all gadgets the more gadgets you have equipped! This prevents a super strong gadget being used in conjunction with kits a la Slick Shoes! The second problem is Gadgeteer competes with Adrenal Implants! Adrenal Implants is essentially permanent irremovable vigor and because of the new 3 trait line restriction, why would you give up permanent irremovable vigor for a booty butt gadget trait!
Also the explosives tree is poorly designed! Say you want to play a condi Bomb Kit build that doesn’t use grenades! Well your tier 1 choices in the Explosives line are bad! Say you want to play a condi grenade build that doesn’t use bombs! Well your tier 2 choices in Explosives are bad!
Thermobaric Detonation is… lol! Cool concept I guess! Not very useful in practice!
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1200 Power 900 Precision 900 Condition Damage!
1200 Condition Damage 900 Precision 900 Power!
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It doesn’t need bomb love. Short Fuse is bomb love. Tier 1 needs a trait for condi builds that don’t run grenades!
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The bug consists of more than Grenade Barrage… I’ll leave it at that! It should be fixed ASAP!
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Grouch and I were asked to talk about GW2’s competitive program at a local conference and if your interested you can watch here:
Steve
Steve said something along the lines of, “it would be a natural if this game was esports, but it’s not in comparison to LoL, Dota 2, and CSGO.”
This is because Anet has intentionally omitted from GW2 key mechanics in infrastructure of these esports games, the infrastructure that makes these games, and any game, competitive! There’s no leaderboards (no good ones anyway), no ranks to display, no incentive to get better, no leagues to compete in, the list goes on! Anet has purposefully left all of these things out because of fear of badmouthing and griefing, which a lot of people do anyway! I’m sorry but when you have an idea for a game, you should build for that idea! Sure you take the necessary steps to limit the trolling that goes on on the internet, but leaving it out entirely, well what has that route accomplished for GW2? Absolutely nothing! We have all of the negatives, and none of the good stuff! Either that or Anet states that they are working on these things and then years down the road there’s still nothing! Anet refuses to comment on any progress and we are left in the dark wondering to ourselves, “What the heck are we doing still playing this game!”
Anyone can clearly see that the competitive scene in GW2 is extremely small and stagnant! On NA, there is only one team! On EU there’s 2, maybe 3 teams! So essentially there’s only 3-4 teams in the entire world that can compete with one another! That’s extremely tiny! What’s more is that the people that make up these teams are veterans! They’ve been here since or near the beginning of this game’s history! These guys are devoted and all other possible competitive players have moved on to greener pastures! Where are the new players! What’s Anet doing to increase the population of its PvP scene!
Incentive is one of the things that brings more people into playing PvP! People need incentive to want to get better! One way of doing this is a visible MMR system that these esports games have! In CSGO, your MMR is calculated by a rank displayed next to your name! In Dota2, your MMR is visible as a number! The drive to get better and improve MMR keeps competitive people playing! Stop being afraid of people badmouthing other players because of what rank they are or what league they’re in and give us these features! Your solution of preventing these kinds of trolling isn’t a solution at all!
Accessibility is another way of getting new people in! The combat system in this game I believe is phenomenal! A free trial is a great way to get people to experience it firsthand! If you look at other MMOs, the most popular one is World of Warcraft! They have free accounts that are heavily restricted, but allow people to play the actual game! How many people have purchased WoW because of this method I wonder!
Grouch mentioned that the League of Legend map is the only map they play for esports! Yes this is accurate, but the map has been developed for literally over a decade! It’s stood the test of time and passed! Meanwhile GW2 conquest has not stood the test of time! GW2 has been out for 3 years now and conquest has been an absolute failure in terms of esports for reasons that I’ve already mentioned! Clearly a new game mode is needed! People have suggested arenas, capture the flag, deathmatch, etc! When it comes to MMO esports, only arenas have been played on a grand stage! Why purposefully omit a tried and true competitive game mode from GW2?
Also, these competitive games that you listed have multiple game modes! In addition to their standard 5v5 Summoner’s Rift map, League of Legends has point capture maps, 3v3, 6v6, and more! In addition to the standard competitive bomb defusal maps, CSGO has deathmatch, arms race, warcraft mods, zombie mods, the list goes on and on and on! The fact that GW2 has purposefully made it so there’s only one game mode and try to justify it with LoL’s decade long tried and true map is just foolish!
And that brings me to Stronghold! Ok so the 2 of the most popular esports games are MOBAs so you guys want to make a MOBA style map! I get it! But you guys seem to have forgotten that GW2 is not a MOBA and you’ve incorporated none of the aspects that make MOBAs skillfull and competitive and instead have just copied a simplified version of their map layout! Furthermore you advertised it in an article that described the map as along the lines of, “You don’t even have to be good at the game to play it!” What part of that is esports? I predict this map will perform well on release since it’s the first additional game mode since launch, but will quickly fade out and won’t even be remotely “esports”!
I had more to say but I forgot so we’ll just leave it at that! Wahoo! Bye frands!
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Just build for WvW! I guarantee you that no matter what you build for WvW, it will work in PvE! PvE is so laughably easy and you can run literally anything there and do well!
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Dodge Mirror Blade! Land Overcharge Shot!
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Countless you play this wacky game too much! You need to play a real game! Slay zambies!
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What’s the gravity like on Tyria! It seems very high! When I shoot bullets or arrows, they fly directly into the ground! But sometimes when you shoot projectiles, they’ll act normally and go forward! It’s like sometimes Lord Gravity feels lazy and says, “Nyah! I won’t make my presence known today!” It would be really funsies if you could shoot projectiles and have them always go in a straight line!
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It’s been almost 3 years! No word from Anet yet on this issue! The cause! The solution! The timeframe! The workarounds! I seldom log into this game goshdarn it and this is why! Literally HALF of the Magnets I use fail! Anet plz!
http://www.twitch.tv/livskis/c/6316419
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Engi does not replace bunker! An Engi that stands on point is a dead Engi! The meta has been the same for years! Half your team builds to stand on point! The other half builds to explode people! The only difference is what classes do what! Right now Eles and Warriors stand on point and every other class can fill in the damage spots!
If you want a heads up, there’s this thing called profession win daily where you get achievement points and loots if you complete a PvP game with the given class! So be prepared for 3-4 same class teams because Anet is not so smart!
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I called for Incendiary Powder, Overcharge Shot, and Slick Shoes nerfs! I don’t think you read my past posts that thoroughly! Yes I also called for a little icon that shows Shared Anguish and also Reaper’s Protection, Mirror of Anguish, Incendiary Powder, and literally almost all passive skills because passive abilities are gross! Selective reading my frand! It’s bad for you!
Anyway my frands! Thx for replying and Entangle is gross!
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This is what Vee Wee uses for FT PvEsports!
60% fury uptime for your team! Many might stacks! Many damages!
If you have a frand who you run with that stacks a lot of might, you could swap out Sigil of Strength for something else! Air maybe or one of those 10% increased damage sigils! You could even swap out Juggernaut for something else like Rifle Mods! I personally play solo, so I make self sufficient builds!
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Why is this a thing? We all know immob stacking is the single worst change Anet made to this game! Worse than Skyhammer! Worse than courtyard! Worse than Dhuumfire! And yet, they take an immob stacking elite and put it on an extremely short cooldown! Anet plz!
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Use whatever armor set you like in PvE! I guarantee you it’ll work! PvE in this game is a joke! Celestial has the added benefit of being really good in WvW when mixed with Knights armor! One set to rule them all!
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They stack but Dolyak Runes aren’t that good!
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Seems this thread is no where near on topic might be time for it to take a dirt nap.
-Completely Offtopic note: How is booty allow through the filter but a word for excrement that rhymes with curd is not?
Why is there even a swear filter for the forum of a video game where primary objectives include poaching wildlife to near extinction and mercilessly and brutally killing other players for sport and monetary gains!
Sure you can drink this Elonian moonshine if you’re underage and brutally destroy this WvW newb and then throw 8 ballistas on his corpse BUT GOSHDARN IT IF YOU SO MUCH AS THINK ABOUT SWEARING YOU’RE BANNED!
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Leveling became a lot worse! They had a patch a while ago that restricts everything you can do under the guise of helping newer players! Anet doesn’t understand that new players =/= mentally handicapped people! I leveled a character to 80 in 30 seconds using tomes and even that was hell! I had to open 80 chests filled with unsalvageable unsellable garbage! Leveling is the worst now! Have fun!
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Guys actin like they are removing all ports from the game! Ports will still be here! Thieves will still have unrivaled mobility! Mesmers will still be mobile and their arguably stronger Portal plays! Blinks are still going to be strong! Instantaneous repositioning is still strong! The only difference is you can’t blink up 8 flights of stairs through a wall and into the ceiling with one ability! I’ve been saying it’s overpowdered for years now and finally something is being done! Now if only PvP and Guild Warts 2 in general was fun! I guess that’s the next big thing Anet should work on!
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Take the stairs like the rest of us you sheisty goobs! Huzzah for good changes! Now if only PvP was actually fun, Vee Wee would play!
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1. Coated Bullets is a stinky trait! Putting more than 10 into the Firearms tree is generally not a good idea!
2. Pistol is bad for a berserker Engi!
3. Rifle is the berserker Engi weapon and it already pierces!
4. Engineers don’t have problems fighting turret Engis, assuming you’re running a grenade build! Plus Grenades have tons of AoE and way more AoE damage output than pistol will ever have, especially on a power build!
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If you’re not running Backpack Regenerator, you’re doing it wrong!
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Engi defending engi-dominated meta, now that’s a surprise.
As someone who doesn’t play the game anymore, I really couldn’t care less if Engineers were nerfed to the ground! But you are deluding yourself if you think this meta is worse than the others! 2-3 hambows + spirit Ranger on every single team! Yeah that sure was fun! Right now we see every single class being represented! Even classes that are considered extremely underpowered can be very powerful and useful if played well! Look at Eura on power Ranger! That is the very definition of good meta!
You’re lying to everyone if you say those builds are not sustain. Those builds are designed to deal more dps than the celestial but are also designed to survive. You can’t give me one of these classes and tell me that they don’t have some sort of defensive trait.
No, a real haymaker/damage build is one that has almost no (or none) anti condition, healing, or dodge traits/skills. Similar to the rifle/hammer warrior, all-in dps powerhouse.
Sadly, as others have said in the past, thief has completely monopolized this area with the ability to be mobile, survive, AND dish out as much dps as the next best thing. Why is it that a class that can go invisible AND dodge can simply spam dodge to gain virtual invincibility while dealing more burst than a traited profession with little/no stealth, low mobility, and/or slower attacks. The math just doesn’t make sense, and neither do the mechanics.
Lol while fun to play, conquest is not a game mode where full glass cannon builds succeed! This is true for any objective based team game! Not only that but with the lack of healers and the rally system, even going down can severely cost your whole team! Your QQ is not justified!
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Is this your first 500-0 game! Congratumalations I guess!
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I don’t understand the complaints! The meta has been the same since launch and it will never change because this is how the game mode is designed! Half your team builds to stand on point! The other half builds to explode other players! Teams have literally been doing this since launch! The team comps that exist now are no different! The DD Eles and shout Warriors stand on point while the other players roam and (de)cap points! It’s much more interesting now than 2-3 hambows and a spirit Ranger on every team and it’s much more action packed! If you disagree, it’s ok because in the end this game is boring as poop and we should all be slaying zambies anyway! Get good sons!
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This game has been extremely boring for years now! Conquestconquestconquestconquest! The few times I log on, it’s to play silly builds that still can win! Especially when you beat known pretty good players! #gadgetmeta for life! #beefcheeser #killshot #venoms
Anet: Don’t worry guys! We fixed the issue! You just can’t play it yet because ha ha!
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1. Never ever ever ever stand on point unless you have to! And if you have to, you probably lost!
2. Engineers melt very quickly when focused! If you don’t want to be focused, don’t overextend!
3. If you play right, cele Engis can pretty much beat everything 1v1! Condi Necromancers will be the hardest! Any condi build could give you some trouble!
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Congratumalations oRNG! Much esports!
To Abjured fans: They still won thousands of dollars playing this tiny game with its tiny scene and noncompetitive game mode! Looks to me like everybody’s a winner here! Except the Asians!
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Haven’t played the game in a while, but considering Anet takes goshdarn forever to do anything, I’d wager they are still bugged! But try it out for yourself! Go into a hotjoin with the runes on and heal! If you don’t see the leeching icon, they are still bugged!
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You should be able to beat Thieves as a condi Engi! Celestial Engi has an advantage 1v1 against a condi Engi because of their insanely short cooldown stunbreak matching your one and only CC (Magnet) and your one long stunbreak cooldown against their many forms of CC! You have a large advantage if you can dodge Overcharge Shot, but good luck dodging instant cast very long duration CC with a very short cooldown!
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It should, but the animation is shared with all mace animations! And for Anet to change all mace animations or to create a separate animation just for Tool Kit auto attack… well that sounds like a lot of work that Anet won’t do!
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We’ve asked for this many times! Long cast time + slow projectile speed = poopy! The cast time should also be reduced to .5 seconds down from .75!
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My frand Jasher! You have been afk for over a year!
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Mesmers!
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That sounds terrible! Plus the most esportz FPS (CSGO) is 5v5!
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- Overcharged Shot is pretty broken! It is the ability that single handedly carries any rifle build! I think a 0.5 second cast time would be a nice addition!
- Magnet is the most obvious CC in the game with one of the longest wind up times! And 25 seconds isn’t exactly a short cooldown for such an obvious skill! Plus it’s buggy as heck! Half your Magnet pulls will desync! I do think that the Magnet lines should show while stealthed though!
- Gear Shield is pretty strong, but 30 seconds is a little overkill! 25 seconds or 1 second block time is more than fair!
- Thumper Turret is just… well it’s not that good! Yes it has a lot of health but if you’re attacking the Thumper Turret, you’re doing it wrong! It’s designed to be a tanky turret! I think the overcharge animation could be a little more pronounced so you can tell when to dodge the launch though!
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