Guild Wars 2

1. use fast cast ground target with marker (lets u see where u aim and still be fast cast)

2. imagine you are playing a third person shooter and imagine the middle of your screen has a target reticule

3. learn all the arcs for your skills inc the rifle skills.

4. get an mmo gaming mouse (I use a razer naga) it greatly improves your ability to play mmos and classes like the engineer (keybind heavy / ability heavy class)

5. go to the pvp lobby and use those golems to practice aiming then u can go to wvw and practice on moving targets in a zerg

once you learn to control the grenades and understand the movements of your targets (in pve and pvp / wvw).
you can then anticipate the movement and throw the grenades ahead or behind the target or to the sides etc. get used to the flight time and arc of grenades and u will be able to make the most of it.

helpful tip each grenade thrown is able to hit 5 targets each,example grenade #1 can tag up to 15 npcs / players if u get a decent spread. grenade barrage is up to 30 targets tagged if u get a good spread.

its just recently uploaded so its not fully processed yet = grainy picture to any 1 who watches just after its been linked. sorry : (

also on a side note. this video I posted is all about manual aiming all abilitys. learning this makes u a much better engineer in terms of ability aiming and predicting.

also if u select your target and have the option “stop auto attacking on target change” unchecked it will let u target your foe start to auto attack then u can left click empty space to “deselect the target”
but your rifle auto attack will carry on. even if u change to a kit and use grenade #1 spam and swap back to rifle it will automatically auto attack

but don’t forget that with skills 2 3 and 4 u need to learn how to manually aim.

the reason for not harving a target “targeted” is it causes havoc with grenade ground targeting.
I am sure you all had that big boss dude and u targeted him with tab target then suddenly your ground target went from directly under the boss to just over your skill bar
or your ability to throw at distance is no longer possible due to the target frame obscuring the view preventing u from hitting the target from behind with grenades

well that’s a work around that lets u have all skills working with no target frame messing it up. the real fun begins when u learn to hit moving targets

engineers used to be hates more then rangers due to the other players being stupid / not understanding how our class works. that and 90% of pve engies decided they would use condi builds + sit in flame thrower all the time :S.

how ever now engies are considers a meta with zerk gear + bombs nades rifle we are welcomed with open arms.

now replace engineer with ranger and you can understand the issue.

1. reflections on full eats up FPS like crazy set it to terrain and sky or turn it off

2. shadows on ultra eats up FPS set it to medium or high (huge difference in fps)

I also use vsync and have frame limiter set to unlimited (it does not go above my screen refresh rate) and it gets rid of micro stuttering, I found when set to a limit it causes stuttering when moving the camera.

I would also recommend u set sample rate to native and not super sample (it looks nice but it eats up far to much for what it returns)

also just a side note. by using SLI / crossfire cards both your GPU will run at 4x speed (they run at the same speed as the slowest card in the set up) which causes issues in some games not designed for dual GPU.
every game I own runs on a single MSI GTX 670 with no issues at all. and once tweeked for optimal performance with my system run like a dream,
SLI / Crossfire is a gimmick to make ppl buy more cards. yes it is effective for graphic designers but for gamers its more fps but the cards run at 4x so it evens out.

if I want to get WvW 100% I will log on a toon that has not got 100% yet (I have 2 that has 100% world maps)
I will then tag up and say “i are commander 100% map, come with me if u want to explore”. I get a lot of ppl following me and we take out the towers / camps they need for PoI.

a nice little motto that will help u a lot later on in mmos

" I DONT GIVE A kitten !!!" simple and very effective in getting your own way in game.

Lazaar.9123:

Mastery points are not granted by exp, only training a mastery track is. Mastery points are from adventures and some specific content.

wrong u also gain mastery points for a track by gaining a lvl. this then replaces a skill point you would of earnt from lvling up

players who’ve reached level 80 will no longer gain levels but will instead train Masteries. This means characters that have reached level 80 will no longer gain skill points through leveling. Skill points will be added as rewards across high-level content to offset this change.

source https://www.guildwars2.com/en-gb/news/reimagining-progression-the-mastery-system/ posted main page FEB 5th

the ability to read all info before posting is a very valuable skill not just on the forums but in life to !!!!!

I think they should also reduce the size of the kits on humans / charr / norn / salads as they are far to big and laughable.

on asura how ever they are scaled perfectly and are small and look very goon on asura engineers.

the “hobo sacks” are here to stay and are a part of the class mechanic / iconic look so best of luck getting them removed.

basically the effort involved to fix the kits is just to much and they cba to change it.

if u don’t know how to run repair

right click desktop icon —→ properties --→ in the text box called “target” u will see the file location for gw2.
it should look like this “E:\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe”. —→ now add this to the line “E:\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.exe” -repair MAKE sure u add a space for -repair after the .exe"_-repair is also a correct way to do it.

click apply and it will run the repair for you. after you repaird the game run a defrag on your HDD (if you use SSD u never need to defrag).

once this is all done. repeat what u just did and delete the -repair or u will be in an endless repair loop every time u load the game.

/wiki command line ingame for a list of all the things you can add to enhance the game.

rename the thread to “waypoint of shame” the “walk of shame” is for something totally different.

so this is my question.

in HoT will a Tome of knowledge that grants an instant level give u a mastery point ? and if so is it worth choosing tomes of knowledge over laurels from the 28 day chest ?

or will it just grant you a level and no mastery point to avoid stock piling of tomes to greatly and unfairly speed up a mastery track.

hi again forum nerds and those very insecure people who have to nit pick any video they see just to asure them self they are “good” and “worthy” of some 1 elses approval.

anyway as im sure you all can see its not a “speed” run group. it was a very nice group of friendly ppl and I didn’t mind it took longer to kill something. it was fun and enjoyable.

I shared this video because its a piece of music that I belive fits the explosive nature of the engineer very well.

shout scream cry all you like. I still don’t care any more or less. just posting so I can see more reactions from people who really don’t matter at all. but belive they do.

also if you are so pro please post a video of u making no mistakes at all in any fight you do

o that’s right u cant

asura engineer’s master race !

zaced.7948:

so you kittened up the stack with dodging backwards, is that what you’re trying to show us? a bad example?

I do what I like when I like how I like.

I have no care for others or the opinions of others.

why add more landmass when u can open up the unexplored landmass we still have not set foot on ?

and yes gw1 had campaigns and was techinicaly not an open world mmo as every zone u went to was instanced.

yes each zone in gw2 has a load screen but its open. in gw1 u go to a map and it was closed to only you and party members.

anyway TL;DR we have massive landmass still yet to explore

i heard this song last night and i just had to do this

soulbinding is there for a reason. its so u cant use items then just sell them later on.

yes I know runescape has no soulbinding but that’s a very different game

nope the mastery system is zone bound / fractal bound

u cant take 1 mastery to another zone. u gain the mastery for that zone.

also WvW already has “mastery” its what u spend your WvW points on for increased effectiveness on abilitys you use the most in WvW like arrow cart MASTERY

learning to read text properly is a very awesome skill to use

taken directly from the front page of gw2 about the masteries

Each Mastery track is tied to a region of Tyria-they must be unlocked with Mastery points gained in that region and can only be trained in that region. With the launch of Heart of Thorns, there will be two Mastery regions: the Heart of Maguuma, encompassing all PvE zones that are part of the Heart of Thorns expansion, and the core Guild Wars 2 world, encompassing all PvE zones currently available in the game today. Since Mastery tracks can only be trained in their respective regions, the Mastery training bar will automatically change the Mastery track slotted when you change regions, reverting to the last Mastery track you had selected for that region. Some Mastery points will come from content that existing players may have already completed, and these Mastery points will be automatically awarded to you with the release of Heart of Thorns, allowing you to get started on your Mastery journey right away.

1. get 500 crafting
2. buy the recipie for the item u want to craft for 5 laurels
3. farm world bosses / dungeons / champs to get all the ores / dusts / fragments you need
4. farm dungeons for a few days, this will get you enough gold to buy most of the items u need from TP
5. craft said gear in less then a week.

when ascended weapons was added took me 5 days to farm everything needed to craft my 2x pistols and then another 5 days for my rifle. this was due to lack of supply of mats.
when ascended armor was released I had the full set of armor 2 hours after the update went live, how did I do this u asked.
we had months to stock pile t6 mats + ectos / laurels and I also bought the cheapest exotic gear in the game to salvage for dark matter. I then farmed all the ascended mats and kept them all un refined in my bank just incase (and im glad I did as lesser vision crystals was added).
even now I still have 15 stacks of each ore un refined ready and waiting just incase they add ascended aqua breathers or I might decide to lvl up an alt with a different armor type and make a full set + weapons for them aswell.

anyway ascended armor is not aimed at “casual players” its aimed at long term players / fractal runners (I am lvl 50 and was 55 before the revamp) and people who just like to have Best in Slot armor / weapons.

to make a full set of armor + 3-4 weapons you are looking at around 50-60 laurals. considering the change to laurels that’s like 2 months of logging into the game to get the recipes you need.

ofc most of the ppl u will meet with full ascended sets starting prepairing for it the day ascended armor was announced by anet in a video they did. and so ppl got ready and had everything stock piled.
we also had the queens jublee go live the same time we had weapons. so I used that place to stock pile t6 mats and sell stuff and made a small fortune. which in turn was invested in tradeable ascended items to speed up the crafting process.

o and by the way. due to todays dungeon model u can earn 100g a week purely from speed running all the popular dungeon paths a day (that’s less then 2 hours work) which can be done in the evenings. I know this because I did it and kept a record of how much gold I made a day. this include selling items that drops / tokens for armor to salvage.

so yes it might take newer players longer to craft ascended. but o well. its a goal to work for. it also teaches u how to be abetter player and how to make gold more effectively with the limited time you have to play the game . which is a very good thing.

gear grind in expansions makes current hard earnt gear invalid as u just keep upgrading gear over and over, like World Of Warcraft and its raiding systems and every 6 months new gear is added forcing u to upgrade to be able to play the new content.
this is called vertical progression

skill grind in expansions allows current gear to remain current and lets u improve your character in other aspects of the game that are commonly used by all PVE players , allowing every one to play all content with out the need for new gear while getting more powerfull from just playing the game in a normal way.
this is called horizontal progression

having played WoW for 10 years I am fed up of having to regrind gear over and over and over just to keep up. it also meens u cant take a break if u are in a progressive guild. Then an expansion comes along and we gain more lvls and no one plays some of the best raids ever created in the game .
( uldaur Icecrown Citidel Black temple Sunwell all now just a single player grind zone for max lvl players when before it required 25 players to beat it just a few years ago)

so when a system is in place where we get expansions stay the same level and keep the Best In Slot gear ( BiS) and then gain new skills / abilitys that can be upgraded over time and keeps all content in the game current e.g exp dungeons and fractals / open world bosses I welcome it

so please stop asking for gear progression its not going to happen. ascended gear is the highest tier of gear and it will most likely be that way till the game shuts down.

guild wars 1 never increased its lvl cap in either the expansion or its storys they added (eye of the north was the “expansion” the rest was just another story to be told with content added) and that worked extremely well.

who cares if “other” mmos add new lvls and new higher shiny gear, that’s the only thing they are able to offer, if u took away the raids from WoW the pve content would be so lack luster so empty so bad no one would play it. the open world content is so dull so dry so bad it wouldn’t keep players for more then a few days

please don’t forget one very important thing

most of the work for GW2 is done on your CPU your GPU is used for things but its your CPU that does the most. as a result this draws ever ounce of power from your PSU when both the GPU and CPU are working. yes nowadays your GPU can doe around 30% of the work but its still CPU bound game (there are ppl who try to argue this but they are stupid bookahs)

as recommended try using another PSU of equal power and find out if that’s the cause (u could ask a friend or go to your local PC repair shop and ask them very nicely to test your PSU they might / will charge u a small amount to do so)

1. you didn’t use effective thermal paste
2. you didn’t set your heat sink correctly
3. you most likely don’t use gaming case with air cooling installed
4. you are probs trying to play zerg content with all settings on ultra and wondering why your machine is over heating
5. you most likely have OC your CPU to high and have a very poor low quality “after market” heat sink. esp if it was a very cheap one which are no better then stock coolers.

if u must apply thermal paste apply a pea sized amount of paste in the middle of your CPU and then apply the heat sink. this causes it to spread evenly along the entire surface of the CPU and heat sink plate.

and when you say “aftermarket cooler” may I ask what one you are using and is it intended for gaming use ?

also as for “optimized game” I found gw2 is a very optimized game and they even fixed the FPS drops in certain areas of the game that was a huge issue
(this was areas of the game where certain fx or back grounds caused the game to render it 4x more then normal and locking frame rates to around 25 when looking at it even with vsync diabled)

examples of this before they fixed it was

CoF the back drop at the entrance
the fire shaman world boss when even with no players
the Fotm thermanova level when u had to use the shields to reflect the repulse blasts (that screwd my fps so badly and now its fine no more issues)
im still not 100% sure of that secret asura lab in metrica (the one u use a power crystal to open) as that would cause my game to lock up at 20 fps when being in that area.

but I would also like to note I have a high end gaming PC with my OS on kitten and GW2 on its own dedicated SSD with no other game / program on it. and I run high maintenance on my machine and keep it running extremely well. which as a result gives me very reliable performance every day any day

may I ask. what kind of power supply you have. as gtx 970s eat power.
(I am asking as most ppl use a cheaper lower quality PSU then get a very powerfull GPU and wonder why it runs slow / not at all). a decent 750W + is normally recomended
and do you use the correct power cables at the back of your GPU as it needs them aswell.

did you install your card properly to the PCIE slot and secured it correctly ? did u make sure no dust or grime was in the PCIE slot / on the gold contacts of the card?

did you un install all graphic card drivers and making sure your system is clear of old driver files still in folders and then installed a fresh uptodate driver from NVidia ?

in your NVidia control panel did u set power usage to “prefer maximum power” as adaptive causes power saving

ingame options gw2 – the frame rate limiter is known to cause stuttering if u limit it to 60 fps (or what ever refresh rate you use) setting it to unlimited then using Vsync removes the stutter and the game does not go beyond 60 fps
(high end graphics cards no longer have the drops to 30 fps when fps goes below 60 with vsync enabled cos it can produce 2-4x that and no longer affects games in that way anymore.)

also do u have a modern CPU and have u over clocked it ? do u use effective cooling ?

your PC case is it designed for modern gaming GPU or is it a standard of the shelf case with 1 little fan ? (a modern gaming case is much larger then a standard case for high air flow and can house 5-9 cooling fans outside + inside the case).

unless we have more info on your set up we cant help u a lot

dirext 11 will not sort out a lot when the game is still 32bit.

the only way to get any use out of direct x 11 is to have a 64 bit client with direct x 11 support. until then even If we have direct x 11 while still using a 32 bit client it will be a very small and almost un-noticible improvement.

32bit restricts the game to set amount of ram and other system resources

64 bit has no restrictions on what the game can use. provided you have a 64 bit OS to begin with.

which leads to another problem. a lot of players only use 32bit OS yes us the high end pc gamers have high end PC with 64 bit os and windows 7 / 8.1 but the vast majority do not sadly.

as long as cheap budget PC exist ppl will not get expensive high end PC. also as long as ppl think a low budget pc = xbox one performance we will for ever be plagued with this problem.

the cost is getting armour damage and when durability hits 0 (red) you no longer gain stats.

its to make death punishing and to punish those who die over and over.

example it stops u camping in WvW and being resed by a thief friend who ran away from attackers when it goes wrong.
or in fractals.

the cost is taking the time to go repair. which is on all players minds and thus makes u play better by not dieing all the time.

even with a “cost” with the current gold u earn from dungeons even now would be a tiny ammount

if you are having lag then its an issue with your internet connection / ISP service.

if you are having FRAME RATE issues ( FPS) then yes its either a hardware issue or poorly installed / outdated software.

now as for making the game run smooth 100% of the time in an mmo like gw2 and the nature of the game in large scale massive player battles. not gonna happen.
even with the highest end machine u will need to set the graphics to low for it to run okish and not stutter and look like a slide show.

the game is a 32bit direct x 9 game it has by default very limited access to system resources.

the best u can do is make it a comfy experience I large scale battles.

now for small scale battles like 5 mans of SPVP / TPVP then yes a high end machine will give u great benefit and the performance will be very smooth and reliable. provided you set it up correctly and keep it maintained.

its important to state if you are having LAG (that’s internect / data transfer delay) or FPS drops / poor frame rate (that’s hardware related)

also to clear up a common misconception your internet connection does not in anyway shape or form cause you to have low FPS. that’s just u having a crappy computer with a crappy connection because u did not invest in decent equipment to take up the PC gamer hobby.

as an engineer

FLYING DRONES THAT GO BOOM BOOM !!!!!

engineer kits are the same as elementlist attunements. not affected by weapon dmg but affected by weapon quality.

now with engineer kits and the nature of them (the kits have no cooldown only the skills they give access to have cd apart from #1 obv).

our dmg comes from multiple sources and not 1 big massive attack like warrior gs or axe. so weapon dmg is not the concern.

so if you wanted to make an ascended weapon for your kit. yes do it. u get benefits from the extra stats and a 5% dmg buff to all kit skills + in fractals u gain the AR aswell so its win all round.

also if it seems like a poster is stupid or making stupid comments or asking for stupid nerfs. its safe to assume they are stupid !

few easy steps to be amazing dps as an engie

1. full zerk gear
2. rotate grenade kit + bomb kit combos + rifle + what ever third utility you use
3. stack with the group in exp speed runs
4. learn when to use your blinds on kits
5. practice practice practice

engies can exceed warrior dmg in pve with a little bit of work and understanding of the class.

the pve aspect of gw2 was designed to be played with a mix of the classes not 3-4 of the same + 1 buffer which a lot of ppl are starting to relize now. even rangers are being accepted into groups now and the “meta only” ppl are being forced out of the lfg scene.

once the vast majorty of the player base understand engineers or zerkgineers are stupidly powerfull and very awesome to play with, we will be considerd a staple meta class, I get a lot of groups tell me I am a meta class already so its a very good sign when pugging.

yes I still get kittens who think im some brainless flamethrower noob using only condis.

that’s why I named myself bombgineer its extremely obvious what I do and 90% of pugs find its a very fitting name (even if the constant BANG BOOM KABOOOOM /laugh annoys some ppl)

ziggs ironeye nice to see some one else educating new players the ways of the engineer.

I personally make it a mission to help out new engineers in the way of BANG BOOM KABOOOM zerkgineer / bombgineer playstyle. I also get a lot of ppl asking me for advice and adding me to my friends list. half the ppl I know are because of the advice I gave them in dungeons

if u play with a decent group that has an ele guard + war then as an engie in zerk gear u can go grenades + bomb kit and rifle and rotate the skills for highest dps and providing high uptime of fire fields that can be blasted with detonating turrets and BoB blast + others during a fight.

if the rest of the group know how to play aswell the fight will be over before you can use your second big old bomb anyway so it keeps might stacked nicely

+ when your skills on cd use grenade kit 1 spam till everything is off cooldown (which is very short considering bomb + grenades rifle cd.)

your main thing to worry about are the stupid players who still don’t know engies can out dps warriors. this is back when ppl only used 4 wars 1 mes combo for timewarp 100 blades midneless dungeon spam years ago. and it had plagued the game with misconceptions of classes.

most ppl assume engies are just condi noobs who use a flame thrower and do bad dps. u need to be quick in telling them u are zerk nades / bomb kit and let them know u can nuke hard and fast.

engies will be part of record speed runs once they find the right ppl to attempt it. but don’t forget engie is far more complex rotation wise then say warrior or ele is. so most ppl don’t bother with engies and go for the easy mode faceroll spec.

how ever on the past few months a lot of ppl are waking up that zerkgineers are very powerfull and the good ones amongst us are extremely skilled and even now I get ppl telling me that never saw an engie like me do so much aoe / single target dmg in speed runs and are shocked.

this one time I got kicked from a party cos my job o tron back pack kept on talking on its voice ICD because of kit swapping :P

asura engineer master class / race !

the rifle would let players become a sniper.

snipers in games are very popular because its a sniper !

enough said

also the kits are over sized on the tall races but on asura its scaled a bit to small so it looks very very good on asura and not some massive oversized hobo sack.

to be honest the #1 harpoon gun skill is just there to fill the gap.

use skill 2 and 4 in rotation with kits for under water combat

just with land combat u swap between kits / main weapon for the skills. so apply the same to water combat and boom awesome fun happy time.

once u learn to kit swap u will understand how awesome and powerfull the engineer is with access to sooo many skills and abilitys (6 per kit don’t forget the tool belts ! )

Zephyra.4709:

Don’t worry guys, I’m sure ANet is deploying a team of highly trained Skritt to eradicate any said ‘bugs’.

but then who will make the living story content

its when u mash the 4key just before you get rallied , it ques up key presses so that’s what happened. it is annoying I know but u need to be more aware of your downs state hp / target hp b4 u go spam happy on 4

some advice. just skim the first few words of any mail and if it seems like its gonna be abusive just report it then delete it with out reading the rest.

or make youtube videos of the ingame mails u get and mock them on youtube and post it on reddit / gw2 guru forums and put a smile on others faces
just don’t post it on the gw2 official site u will be in trouble for naming and shaming.

also u will very quickly learn to just laugh at what they write. if they are sending this mail to you its because you made them feel very small and insignificant and this is how they feel “big and strong” by making you feel bad for making them look bad infront of their friends if u managed to kill them in a 1v1 or 2v1 situation.

now how they get ur details is they click you and then do /invite @ when targeting you and it sends a group party request to you and when u get the inv option they can see your account contact name like the forums have when u post.
I used to get that ALOT when I was killing players in the obsidium sanctum on my engineer

so every time I get one of those mails or ingame /w I consider it a victory

the gold from laurals →t6 mats are nice. but as others have suggested save them till after the expansion releases. by then u will have a huge stock pile of them and if nothing new is added u can just use them and make a huge profit.

if something new is added you just saved yourself months of resaving them to buy the item.

for what you are after a staff guardian would be the best bet.

you will not be a dedicated healer like other mmos. but you will have high support ability’s like condition cleansing some limited group heals and other ability’s to greatly assist the group. you can also swap to a secondary weapon to compliment the staff.

its also very nice to have in WvWvW when playing with a large group as u can assist the group and be a very helpful asset, also if u do fractal runs its also very nice to. the only aspect you wont be helpful on is dungeons where ppl want to speed run.

just say you are a “support guard” when looking for groups. ppl will inv u very quickly anyway so don’t worry about not being able to find groups.

took this one while in fractals. it looks nice

hi. asura here

shut up salad

(shut up meg)

I play an asura full zerk grenade / bomb kit + rifle engi in PVE. full ascended with medium t3 set. (the best looking set ingame for engie ! ) since head start.

no regrets.

the rotation is actually very simple. it just involves swapping from grenade kit -> using cool down. to bomb kit using cooldowns + blast finishers -> swapping to rifle using blunderbuss + jump shot and repeat.
I also have the rocket turret for the toolbelt skill as that crits 15k + at 25 stacks of might after the might nerf, its also good for using the rocket turret + overcharge ability b4 it fires a rocket to CC mobs / players with its knock down.

one of the big downsides of being an engineer is the common misconception that we are “bad dps” which is not true. esp when in full zerk gear using said kits + rifle. its like with rangers. a lot of engineers are bad at the class giving us skilled players a bad name.

as a result of this “misconception” I sometimes with in seconds of joining a party get kicked because “engineer” as a reason.

also as many have stated before in other posts like this warrior = great sword skill 2 -> swap to axe use skills + axe burst -> swap to great sword 2. pop down said banners and win.
due to warriors base health pool of 18k + a single low grade trait u can have 20k + hp in full zerk gear + any health increase from WvWvW health buff on the server you play on can easy hit 21k + which makes warrior extremely moron friendly and very forgiving.

anyway back on track engineer is a very fun and rewarding class once you learn to play it well and make the effort to do well. a lot of pugs are now coming to accept that engies can do a metric ton of dmg and provide usefull buffs like fire fields and moght stacking during combat with no downtime on rotation + provide perma 20+ stacks of vuln at all times thanks to grenade kit 3-4 + stacks of vuln per grenade skill + any other sources of vuln for average of 24 stacks for the duration of a fight.

Arantheal.7396:

krixis.9538:

and lets face it the only ppl who do 1v1 in WvW are either gankers or lone players who got separated from a zerg. and the real fights in WvW are AoE zergfests.

any one who argues this point is either a troll or does not want to see turrets / pets / minions fixed in PVE.

on low tier servers roaming is much more important than zerging, also making minions, pets and clones immune to aoe as well gives every ranger / necro / mesmer a extreme advantage over any people they encounter.
ranger-pets serve as pure meat-shield for beast-master rangers, dealing with a flesh-golem becomes a nightmare and phantasms will dps you to death quickly if you can’t deal with them fast and reliably.

call me troll, elitist, meta-stuck idiot, I really don’t care, but your proposal is complete garbage for any competitive content. There is a very valid reason why PvP would QQ about that. Why do you think wvw is less competitive, unless of course you personally don’t like it / don’t play it and therefore refuse to consider all consequences your proposal would have.

easy fix.

1. disable the aoe immunity on pets/turrets/monions designed to be tanks and disable it when u have points into pet / turret / minion focused trait lines.

now WoW is a 10 year old game and had this problem when it launched. it was a class called the shaman. they worked a lot like engineers do.
they place a totem on the ground and it stood in place. couldn’t move. it has 5 hp and was destroyed with in seconds of being placed on the floor.
this also applied to the hunter pets and also warlock pets.
so to fix this they made all pets take 95% less dmg from aoe and made the totem immune to aoe dmg but still have 5 hp and would be 1 shot with any direct dmg.

so I ask again make turrets immune to aoe for PVE. because in fractals / dungeons the life span of a normal turret with 0 traits in inventions is around 5-10 seconds before it is wiped of the face of the earth by 1 of the 10000 aoes bosses have access to.
this is even more true when we run dungeons and every 1 uses the stack tactics. all the aoe is focused on the group. even if you move away from the group and place it, it will still be targeted and die.

gw2 claims to be a “next gen mmo” yet is has the problems World Of Warcraft fixed 10 years ago.

and I will say again I DO NOT CARE FOR PVP DONT APPLY THESE CHANGES TO PVP. with these changes aimed for PVE only there is no valid reason to deny aoe immunity to turrets.

u can argue all you like I am still right. as long as it does not affect pvp there is no reason it shouldn’t be added.

and yes I understand a lot of u in here never played any other mmo cos it was either sub based or to complex for you (I still don’t understand why ppl don’t like sub based mmos, are you really that poor ? or to tight to pay, or are you so self entitled u expect all games to be free nowadays ?)

/rant over

I use my birthday blaster

+40 all stats and boost to magic find xp and karma gain

no cd on blaster unlimited use and is free (granted ur toon needs to be 2 years old)

and for tech buff I use the 5% toughness converted to power sharping stones. 3x mith bars 3x dust easy to make extremely cheap (I farm the mats so its free) and you are good to go. if u truly think 1% increase makes the slightest difference then go waste your gold

so short and sweet

condition dmg = SPVP / TPVP / WvWvW

direct dmg = PVE

problem has been solved good day everyone

once you learn to play engineer its a very powerfull class.

it does req a lot of effort and planning. that’s why most bad players avoid it.

also with the right builds engies have high dmg and a lot of CC available to them. it just reqs understanding how to use the engie.

also engies are not “gimmicky”. kits and turrets are a class mechanic and work very well.

combine the skills of kits + weapons u can apply condies at an alarming rate and keep them refreshed with little to no effort.

also using grenades in melee range is 99% hit rate when using them in PVP, its what shortbow thiefs calls “shotgunning” using short bow 2 at melee range and detonating it before it lands.

I personally have no problem with trench coats.

what I do have a problem with is shoulders not being symmetrical or having one shoulder being really bulky and the other being really slim almost not there.

same with gloves

anyway non trenchcoat asura engineer

:D this thread is starting to pick up speed keep it up guys. we need more awesome screenshots

a collection system for pres is the best system

1. it allows every one in the game with 100% reliable access to a pre they want for a legendary

2. the TP flippers can no longer hold a tight death grasp around pres / those unlucky with mystic toilet

3. gives a long term goal for ppl

so ty anet it was long overdue for this. an rng based system for an item was silly

I will put this in a nice and simple way

PVE = ZERK GEAR

PVP / WVW = BUILD DIVERSITY

ok understand now ???

hi o/ I am an engineer. I have been since head start and played one in beta.

I have no issue in doing organised fractals or speed runs as a full zerk grenade / bombkit + rifle engie. infact a lot of groups now are happy to see me as they are starting to wake up to the fact a skilled zerkgnineer is a very powerfull tool in a group.

the only reason warrirors was so popular is

1. they are very very easy to play.
2. they have naturally high health and self healing
3. banners

but now things have changed most groups don’t mind taking an engie over a warrior. as long as the set up is

1x guard 2x war 1x ele 1x random zerk

also you are able to make your own group.

and most importantly is this phrase which will get u very far in life

" I DONT GIVE A DAM !! "

1. let me move the target frame from the top of the screen to any where I like.

2. let me shrink the target frame to any size I like so I can have it hiding in the corner of my screen ( I am a grenade engie and targeting anything greatly reduces my ability to aim)

the target frame also takes up a lot of space on my screen when targeting champs +

3. let me hide the daily quest tracker

4. let me hide the event tracker for events (like christmass one etc)

5. screw pvp force them to have the default UI when entering the spvp lobby and let every one else enjoy awesome UI that we can customize our self.

6. with spvp taken care of just let us modify every aspect of the UI

:D keep them coming don’t let this thread die to early

kaboom !

its nice to see these screen shots. keep them coming I would like to see this thread last more then a few hours before it gets lost in the pages of no one cares : (