Guild Wars 2

Im mostly small group roamer from smaller server and have been running SD +rifle which is terrific in small scale wvw battles. Recently my guild has gone up in numbers and organized game play a lot and i just feel that SD chokes in massive zerg fights. I was soon to find out that in this blob vs blob engi cant be damage machine so Im looking for more supportive buffing build. Any pro level (in pro guild) engineers want to share some supportive builds? -traits, gear and reasoning. (I get this for x and this for y).

Massive server merges or old system back thank u.

whats to shame in loosing 9999999999999 vs 10? lol

Another boring PVE week ahead. I really can’t see how some people think this server matching as good. No point in playing. LF Cof1 lol..

In wvw i wouldnt do berserker if solo. Running naked a downed guardian mesmer and thief can screw u. In Wvw i use power tougg crit% ascende. Power tough vita gear. Hp 20 000. Power reac 3500. Crit more with food. Toughness 1500. Backapack still zerker. I can take a beating and burst crit 1.5k.

skill 2 netshot: misses way too much.

skill 3 blunderbuss : Deniaras idea sounds good

skill 4: overcharged shot: No profession deserve self knock that screws you up. There is no reason for self knock.

Skill 5. Jump shot: Hopefully fix comin soon then.

Rifle is alredy weakest main weapon in game because all skills expect auto is bugged. Now after around year waiting to fix first of 4 bugged skills the fix fails misarable. I’m just feeling that after nice beta time prestart time starting from september engi just got kitten ed on. And this patch really shows it. Main weapon having one working skill after a YEAR!

800 hit! with 3700 power! camp veteran 25 bvulna + weakness…

iths shirter and bugged with rifled barrels! I do 1k-2k damage!!

Gooj.8561:

eh, doesn’t matter to me as I’ll still be doing the trick where you cancel the landing animation of jump shot

enlinghten me master!

Mortar must stay for wvw! the basic’s of mortar is great! Problem is the range. Why set mortar when u can throw nades half longer?

Thanx for gm response! anyone else noticed damage difference?

Very dissapointed again. Sad to say. Warrior sword became real menace, some got torment and engi these so called buffs. Battering ram is nice but utilty slot skill 150 range is sucky for SD builds where u want to stay far from enemy. Rifle is more bugged that before. Mortar range +100 changed nothing. Rocket boots look nice but why stun break gone?

- We have no cleanses in gadgets and no stability. Im afraid engi is going to drop from sledge. Others develop we just bugg more.

Most annoying part was tools grandmaster trait giving AEGIS for 5 secs. Aegis reflect ONE attack!!!!! It should have been STABILITY with longer cool down!

Also the damage is so gimmick. Pre-patch i could crit 5,6k. Now 2k crit is miracle

Hoping for fix since beta but eeh.. rifle only good 1200 range

Rifle turret tollbelt +33% as in surprise shot? My sd gets love. Really looking for getting my hands on rocket boots or battering ram.

Point handicap doesnt change a thing. Smaller server gets stomped by larger.

This new match up just cant work. tier 6-7 is so much stronger than tier 8. Old system was very good.

What is BT aim? they attack wsr and only wsr. We have no change to fight overwhelmed gunnar. BT rush our bl and loose everythin they own by gunnar. Either they have allied to gunnar or just worst server on Guild wars 2. watch ur towers.

rumble = 1s stability. So anet has fixed engi now? We missed stability the most and now its solved hurraay! Think of all things u can do in that 1s.

Sitting duck fix is good with the B I G expection of not fixing the netshot itself. I cant even remember when i caught someone pro lvl. Its so bugged skill missing all time! Jump shot fix hurraayy for that. Infact decent changes but then i took a look in other classes… We are so far far faaaaaaaaaaaaaar behind in development. No cleanses either! I don’t want to play alchemist! I am engineer!

Engi lacks so much in 2 most important skills. Stability and cleanse. If u want cleanse elxiris is must. So much versatility…

Dawdler.8521:

VOLKON.1290:

A mesmer can create phantasms and clones with his mind, an elementalist can “ride the lightning” into a group of foes and send them flying, a guardian can create magical walls of energy… yet people are worrying about the real life physics of arrows?

Actually, yes.

Magic is magic – we expect it to behave like magic.
An arrow on the other hand is not magic – its a physical object that should be subject to actual physics. And the arrowcart is just a plain wooden arrowcart firing plain wooden/possibly mithril arrows (presumable, orichalcum is too expensive to shoot)

Games dont have to be realistic, they have to be believable.

Now, if you where to tell me thakittens a magic arrowcart firing illusionary arrows, then it’d be a whole different matter. Actually it would even make sense, since all illusion based physics in this game are so bugged an arrow flying through a wall is no different from an illusionary leap being stopped by a 2cm height difference.

Sidenote “its a” is censored by the forum? I need to read up on my curses, kitten it!

what if engineer made tiny holes in walls so arrows can get trough them and you all were wrong from the start?

VOLKON.1290:

A mesmer can create phantasms and clones with his mind, an elementalist can “ride the lightning” into a group of foes and send them flying, a guardian can create magical walls of energy… yet people are worrying about the real life physics of arrows?

This!

Defensive play reward is kitten. This problem known from beta and not changes made. When you repel the enemy u might get bronze achievement with no reason and get 48 copper! Horraay! just put few g on that tower! Defending big zerg should give half of taking the keep/tower. Repairing should give 5 -10 points not meager 1.

Does bomb kit’s big ol shoot SD too? Or is it bugged like 90% of SD skills shootin the bolt to some random direction.

This must be the best matchup in GW2 wvw history. Insane battles like wsr bay. We wont give homeground freely :P.

Bump! gratz on Arbo using zoom hack to take keeps again! How we report this? Report whole zerg?

SO great!! All towers keeps lost cause of this

Great WSR lost eb keep! enemy can place siege but we cant! ty Anet

Sirendor.1394:

kitten the rifle on engineer, it has the worst weapon skills on any profession of the whole game. Wait till they add skills that are useful, then play with it.

-.- more info of rifle engi the worst? 13 000 + kills here in wvw and i dont feel like being worst. Lacking yes but worst no.

Best game hands down at the moment even though needs alot fixes.

Reasons:

1. No stupid pay to win or grind to win content. When u enter battle its up to u and ur comrades how fight will end. —> No big virtual egos.

2. WvW. I truely wish anet will realize this will be their backbone. 24/7 battle and in years to come servers will get more players to WvW throughtout time zones. Biggest dev focus should be here

3. Not too many pfofessions. Anet shouldnt add any new professions atleast in 2-3 years. Rather make all profession viable, you alll have seen what happens when constantly new professions appear (some old originals die out)

4. Every content of the game is doable. Though PVE should give more challenge and add new values like t6 chests, laurells chests. Why would anyone do hard dungeon for gold grind if u can just run cof1?

Too bad new matchups. This tier is gettin intresting. Alot of good even fights. Arbo numbers just vary so much.

Contiguous.1345:

Eyefinity is just a graphics driver that lets you use 3 monitors as one big screen (up to 6 actually).

It’s not hacking software, it’s just better, same as having a high res graphics card instead of 640×480 CGA. Eventually, everyone will have it.

If you can’t afford the best kit, I’m sorry but that’s the way the world works.

-.-

kyro.8162:

Thing is, eyefinity is not an exploit, it just enables people with larger screens to see more. It isn’t that much more, just enough for those with large screens to not have a asura fatter than they are tall.

= U can do stuff that other players cant do which very STRONGLY AGAINST GAMES RULE = E X P L O I T.

This is like bringing tank to a football game and firing the ball to net and try explain nothin odd about this. GW2 fair players dont give in to exploiters! u know where it leads!

Wow anet really went down shooting. In August u would alredy got banned. They had very good policy. Arrow cart glitch is one the biggest exploits of this game and if they allow to do it im going to quit. WvW becomes absolutely stupid. Build arrow cart wrack all and GG. Wheres ur stand ANet?

Laurels only for daily is bad bad decision. Now player that starts will take half year to get all ascended in wvw? And they truly make ur char ALOT stronger. Hopefully there will new currency soon for ascended and also claimed from WvW. Killing other players (having skills to play) should be more profitable and give access to top gear!

Any idea of whats causing the crashes? Nice fights this week all around! Arbo lost members after good start or what happened?

Statistic discharge amen. Trait 10 to power for 100% burn on crit. atleast 20 to tools for speedy kit and statistic discharge. Rest u can check what u need. Prolly rifle range etc. Rifle with stats power prec crit% + sigil of bloodlust or 2 rifles that u swap. one with blood other with sigil of air. (Oh well in spvp i think air ) armor set soldier stats power/toughness/vitality. Ascended trinkets and rings where u mix into rings power tougness crit% + full power prec crit%. Also foods important to use oil. As long as u crit baby!

Skills: Medikit, tool kit , rifle turret, X

Explanation: When enter combat start with medikit 5 for fury. then auto rifle and and spamm ur toolbelt skills for SD. When forced to meelee change in tool kit for prypar and shield and use rifles overcharge shot to knokc em of. Then net shot —> jump shot = last one turn out the lights.

Problem is to choose third skill. If u dont have tool kit and rifle turret in sd build u fail. (Check out all gadgets, turrets, kits cooldowns to pop SD. These 2 has no competition) for 3rd you can pick elixir gun, flamer, gadgets like utlity goggles for 10 vulna. (looooooooooooooooong cd)

SD rifle engi is very strong in 1v1. More arrogant u are more better u do. SD can rain some serious dmg also rifle auto is great.

Scleameth.6809:

Biggest problem with WvW is WvW. If they did not create WvW there would be nothing to complain about. So remove WvW and you have yourself one problem solved.

If they remove WvW the game will have very short history if u mean by this Pve brainless running around and Spvp are the only gamemodes. WvW is fine idea and backbone of gw2 when ppl get tired of grind and farm non active world bosses.

1. Insane gold sink. Why is WvW the non profitable game mode so expensive to play? Welcome to t8-9 u can spend 20g in a moment

2. Should the open time be 24/7? Night capping has biggest role in wvw points. Maybe some 2-4 hours when wvw map not open

3. Why are we doing this? Pve players get all best gear all best skins all the money in the world all the achievements for killing dumb mobs. WvW players get spikes and repair bills.

4. WvW is gw2’s future. It’s not possible to keep adding pve stuff that meets the very high demand. WvW goes on and on. Make us reason to there. Killing a player should always be more profitable than autoattack afk world boss.

5. Achievements? Ultimate destroyer will take me around 25 years. Anet i admire ur courage how long u think the game will stay alive but for reall?…

SD build uses rifle more than anything and if u dont u using very bad SD build. (honest opinion)

Elixir R wastes alot possible power taking one skill slot. Our downed is in beta phase as is rangers. Anet somehow forgot this?

Thief stealth should not be changed. What needs to be added is antistealth. Rogue class is even big hit or big pile of kitten. Anti-stealth skills should be ground target. So thief can get in to battle and out of battle stealthed but he cant spam it like no tomorrow. When u enter anti-stealth field ur exposed. This is very common way to counter rogue in modern games. Thing is GW2 has 0 anti-stealth skills = rogue is broken.

After patches my skill lag has gone up every time. (weird that i didn’t have any lag in launch time) My overcharged shot bugs 2-3 out of 5. My kit swap fails hard for example trying to swap to elixir gun for ground target elixir skill 5. I target and press 5 and nothing ever happens. Supply crate has become a major obstacle. The animation is so long that in my screen it shows it has dropped it but when i do dodge i find out it isnt. I have to to drop my versatile gameplay so many skills just wont opperate in WvW. And im not talking about zerg vs zerg where everyone freeze but all the time when theres like 5 players on map. If this can’t be fixed engi is unplayble for me. Any suggestions? tricks?

It blows how prec. stat go with rifle. In WvW for me rifle range is must! I used excatly same build in last fall. Very fun gameplay and MASSIVE damage. Survability is an issue and I now roam more tankier critter. SD for the win!

Great update to WvW. My playstyle is defensive. i make dollys run i fix all , i protect and guard and WvW eats all my money and my rank stays low. Thanx Anet for taking notice defensive playstyle! This is very important for tier 8-9 guilds. When battle “jamms” to situation wheree u need to hold stuff PVE oriented ppl leave coz they get nothing out of it. Good call!

Goggles is fun but the CD’s are ridiculous. Ur dead meat when burst done.

Personally the 3rd slot is the problem (toolkit and rilfe kit are must in SD) rocket turret gives nice dmg from toolbelt, but also long CD. So what did i pick: ELixir gun. Yes elixir gun gives me also group support abilities such as healin mist (also does the lightning but u must be close buggs very often ) and ofcourse good combo field aoe reta, condi removal, heal and skill 2 gives poison and cripple. Also cooldowns aint that pain in the kitten EB doesnt give max dps output for sure but it makes SD engi “versatile” supporting group.

Also i have swtiched to toughness power crti% gear. I can still land 1,5-1,6k autos and around 1k SD’s. Okay results in WvW and like it more than rampager SD engi who gets nailed so fast in zergy zergs. But not telling anymore Anet might be listening.

jesterscript.7493:

I’m staying alive longer than ever after the Elixir S “nerf”.

Oh gratz on hitting level 80. Now get exotic gear and you live bit more longer if you get lucky.

Agree with Anymras. Only real patch note that will take place is that our best trait “self regulating defenses” became useless now. It will only harm engineer. Gettin condi on u and auto pop and u die lol