Guild Wars 2

Well ok, flamethrower with full crit/condition traits does pretty well, specially if you add quickness or fury.

I want more options ;D

I go with condition damage already. Tons and tons of conditions, I love it >:D Actually I think the Power line is pretty boring.

But even the conditions + condition damage is not doing the job once I’m all alone playing in Bloodtide coast.

I know I must be doing something wrong, but WHAT? I’ve spend days and days tweaking things, trying to change how I play, …

Oh. I’m not worried about variety, engineer has plenty of that. I just want to be powerful; I started struggling around Bloodtide Coast, wasn’t strong enough to kill anything https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/Engineer-need-help-with-Bloodtide-Coast/first#post32869

So I want a profession that’s strong/powerful enough to solo stuff in the more difficult areas.

I don’t want to run grenades for the rest of my gw2 life.

The last picture will probably be the armor I wear when I’m lv 80 and done upgrading armor every level. Once I find a black dye of-course.

I wanted the “human thief profession screen” armor, but these Norn women have no hips whatsoever, why bother. Really, Norn women have no hips, my god!, they’re no Norn in my book!

You said to use racial skills, did you mean it’s necessary for solo Pve as engineer? You’re saying I should really roll another race, since norn has no good toolbelt skills, if I want to be effective in solo pve as engineer?

:’( 3 weeks work from scratch

Tigger.8035:

Make a race oriented build

Well, unfortunately I went Norn, I can’t stand human and sylvari females.

Delete and go Charr engineer maybe?

So what is a class that’s powerful?

I came to engineer because Guardian was a tank class (hold points, too defensive oriented, good support and control, but poor damage), and now I’m finding out engineer is another tanky class. Wasted my time leveling a class-type I was trying to avoid at all costs.

I play mostly PvE, could you suggest a powerful class there?
I love Mesmer in PvP but I don’t want to deal with clones and random effects in PvE.
What’s the most damage oriented, and least buggy, class for PvE?

Or tips to make engineer more powerful when solo in PvE (Lv 65+ areas).
I’ve tweaked so much with my skills, my traits, … everything… but it’s still very difficult. No problem staying alive, but a problem killing stuff.

Guess I could use grenades/grenadier but they’re so loud and flashy they make me tired after playing 5 minutes.

I guess you’d be fine if you don’t mind grenade spam for the rest of your life, with the other 2 utility slots for snares (if you’re mostly concerned with the end zone, and you want range)

The professions I wanted to play were guardian and mesmer, but I instead chose engineer because of: no real ranged weapon on guardian, weak against champions, veterans, and world bosses,… didn’t like randomness of mesmer, clones (not phantasms) weak until later on when you can trait ‘on death’… (this is all just my opinion, I don’t want to discuss it as not to derail the thread)

1) Solo ability. Can I run around a comfortably solo zones

In my experience, no. Not easily, at least. You’ll be praying for a stronger player to come by. Because let me tell you, if a guardian or another engineer shows up, the fight will still be though.
(Note, I’m not talking against 1 or 2 trash enemies, but bigger groups like the risen)

I did fine solo or with one other player (mostly mesmer), until lv 55 or so, when I went to Bloodtide Coast and suddenly starting playing against the Risen… alone… couldn’t do it! Spend days and days messing with traits, skills, weapons, upgrades… now I’m Lv 66 and still feel very weak soloing Bloodtide coast.

This helps http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fcMQFAUlIqKen1y2FTOJSIFSohB6BghX3loC63nCsFA;TsA5USpURpgiiGDNCasV5qSW1IAA but only so much.

(You need to copy-paste the link, gw2 forum messes up the link if you click it)

2) How do engineers contribute to dungeons?

Engineer is awesome support in dungeons! Today I played this elixir build in sorrow’s furnace http://gw2skills.net/editor/en/?fcMQJAqelspCYnwy2F1LA;TgAKYMKJUyCjDGJMjAmIA and pretty much kept everyone alive, and they could always recover from Downed state even if I couldn’t come close to them to revive. Nearly any group-oriented skills I bring to dungeons as engineer do very well, even considering some people (>_>) will go glass cannon.

See my comments on WvW below to see more ways I support.

3) How much fun

Even if I feel weak as engineer, I always have a lot of fun in PvE.
In WvW, I love all the mobility I have. Slick shoes! People never expect the knockdown. When defending forts I mostly support. A warrior can be brave because I’ll support him. I can throw him elixirs, or make him a light combo field to remove conditions, I can pick apart enemies and set them up so it’s safe for him to attack.

If you really enjoy support you’ll probably like the Engineer. If you want more damage, try something else (assuming you mostly play solo-ish PvE/WvW)

4) race

Human have elite skills that complement the engineer very well. Asura too. And Charr! You should go Charr if you want to look cool. Don’t go Norn like me!

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Currently I’m looking for a more damage profession, but will keep engineer for the fun and the support (feel free to send me a personal message if you can help)
The engineer really fits me like a glove, I really feel like it’s me fighting and not just a character on my screen. I just wish it were a bit stronger in solo PvE.

Jack of all trades, master of none

I disagree with that. I’d say we’re pretty strong with support and control! We have great mobility as well.

I agree with wolf, I’d thought of this and think that one effect should be guaranteed, and one random, even if potency has to be reduced.

Playing engineer, no matter what I do, I feel I give too much all the time.

Btw, for those who don’t know: RGN is random number generator, used to pick which random effect will activate.

Main hand torch (for engineer only, since only mainhand he can have with shield is pistol)

Melee staff (Bo-staff, like Aeris in FF7)

Dual wielding shields (JUST KIDDING!)

Everything else has been said already.

I think it needs a certain amount of reports by different people, to ban.
In gw1 it did anyway.

So when you (anyone who is reading) sees a gold spam message, report it too, don’t assume another person will do it. Right click the name, select report, and check “Spamming”.

Very funny that you will force money to be taken from Bank if we don’t have sufficient money to use a Waypoint.

But you won’t take money in other convenient situations, like needing more money to buy something on trading post, or repair armor when in explorable areas.

It would be great to have the money taken from our Bank in situations like these, if we ran out of money in the inventory.

For those who don’t know, when you don’t have enough money in inventory for a Waypoint, you will get a pop-up saying:

You don’t have sufficient funds for the Waypoint. The rest will be taken from your account Bank.
[OK]

Can you please make it so it’s free to teleport to a city if you are in a city? It would save so much time. Right now I have to… find the asura gate… 1 minute loading screen… walk to another asura gate… 1 minute loading screen…

Total time spent traveling: about 5 minutes.

Either way it would be free, but it would reduce bandwidth on servers (loading + teleporting requests; loading players and all that stuff)

I vote for your suggestion, I think it’s good to have options.
However I would prefer if they make revealing armor for males first. You females already have a ton of options, having one less (though this one is still plenty revealing) won’t really hurt your options. Males however, are terribly lacking.

Healing Rain
Call down a healing rain on the target area, granting regeneration to allies and curing conditions once every three seconds.

Cleansing Water
Remove a condition when granting regeneration to yourself or an ally.

Healing Rain pulses regeneration four times. Cleansing Water will remove conditions each four times, on you, or on the ally in the healing rain.,

However:
Cinnamon is asking about combos, specifically.
So you have a Water field. And s/he’s asking if a player who does a projectile finisher on the water field (thus receiving regeneration) will have conditions removed.

Answer:
No, cinnamon didn’t give the ally regeneration, Healing Rain didn’t give the player regeneration. The water combo field did. When CinnamonFox puts a field down, it doesn’t belong to her/him anymore. It belongs to the world.

@Ojimaru:
They do benefit, but only from the person doing the combo finisher, not the person who did the combo field.

Say I have sigil of smoldering on (+10% burning) on my weapon, and I cast a fire field. And you don’t have the sigil. When you apply burning with a projectile, it won’t use my 10% burning.

I noticed that whenever I was almost due to buy the next training book, I started feeling desperate that Engineer was boring/weak/“aah I want to roll another profession!”, and when I bought the new training book the feeling would go away.

I wonder if it’s because the game difficulty is not on par with when you get new traits, or if it’s just novelty.

Yes we could use a melee weapon, how about a main-hand torch? To go with shield. off-hand

But I disagree with you, engineer is nothing at all like the ranger. They’re miles and miles apart.
If you wanted to compare something with ranger, it would be thief. So you’re saying engineer and thief are about the same too?

You didn’t grant regeneration to your ally, the combo did.

It’s not cultural armor, as you can see in the pictures it’s usable by all professions.

AKA the one in the thief human male profession screen.
I’ve seen some people walking around Lion’s Arch with this armor.

- What’s it called in PvE?
- Where do you get it?

Take it easy, learn one thing at a time. There’s too much to learn and you will become overwhelmed if you want to know everything at once.
You don’t have to worry about kits or mortars right now.

Use your pistol skills, and your healing skill, and try to understand what they do.

Walk around. Talk to NPCs. Do some quests. Kill monsters. As you play, the game will tell you what to do, if you look at the top-right of the screen.

That’s it.

I posted a question here on the forums asking for help with my engineer, because even though I was entirely specced for damage, I could barely kill anything. No, I hadn’t tried bomb kit or grenade kit because I hate all the stupid noisy explosions.

A couple days ago I asked in game, and a person helped me. We were testing skills and fighting for hours. So I learned a ton of things. For example:

• Flamethrower: the first attack is not just “one attack”, it’s 10 attacks in one. So if you build your traits for precision and all the conditions, it’s going to be very strong. Even better if you use the skill for Quickness on a though boss. Fury helps, for extra critical chance. If you have Utility Goggles you get fury, and also 10 stacks of vulnerability to start off the fight.

• Bombs: Not so bad if you pay attention to the combos. Engineer has a lot of blast combo finishers you can use with the two combo fields (2 and 4)

Personally I love the Wrench tool kit, so I wish I can make it more useful (though 5 is hopeless). So I’m going to try these new things I learned with it, and see how I do!

I actually really like the grenate kit, I just wish I could turn off the sound AND animation for them. They’re too strong and make me feel tired after a while.

If you find more things to make the engineer stronger, please post here so we can all learn

(edit: specified “blast combo finishers”)

Thanks Grim, that’s good to hear I can carry books around. Does that mean I will have to buy a Grandmaster each time (I’m lv 61)? Or can I buy an Adept and just reset 10 points from all trees? Or buy a Master book and reset 20 points?

:)

I have lots of builds I’m happy with.
But I play different ones all the time, I don’t want to stick with just one setup because it’s boring to me. I like to change depending on what I feel like doing at that moment.

So say I might be changing trait-trees once or twice a day. I must go to Training NPC each time?

If you like to play different sorts of builds everyday, how do you go about changing your traits?

Say I’m exploring with a friend, using Explosives and Firearms traits, then someone asks if we want to join them for a dungeon. So I want to change my trait trees to something else.

Do I have to go to Training NPC every-time I want to change my trait trees? Is there a easier way? And it’s very expensive to do it as often as I’d like, do you have any tips to make it cheaper?

• Make rifle 5 and 6 not so stupid. I honestly don’t get it. It’s so slow and you can’t fight while using them. In fact, using those 2 skills is having a death wish! So in effect you only have 3 attack skills on the rifle.
• Let “swap weapons” go to the last kit used. It’s so slow to switch kits to use a skill or two mid-combat, because I have to fumble searching for the key to activate the kit.
• Reduced cooldown on turrets if you go to pick them up.
• Since our elites are so boring, let us equip a utility skill there. Just kidding, just kidding! Or am I?

I’m an engineer and I’d like more weapons. But:
You’ve got the 4 toolbelt skills.
Your turrets have a different skill you can use, after you set a turret.
We got tons of skills, when you think about it!

And the Wrench tool kit already does what you want with the hammer. It repairs, and is melee.

unforunately its soul bound when you acquire it.

sucks, I didn’t know there would be order specific armors before I joined.

the wiki said you could change orders “with a little effort” but I’m not sure what that means, and the wiki page doesn’t explain further than that.

I wonder if a friend can sell you his old soul bound armor he doesn’t need anymore, and maybe it can be transmuted?

So when the game says “dead ship” it means “dead tentacles thing”. I was aiming at a ship for 3 hours, boyfriend wakes up, points at the screen, it’s the tentacles thing.

…

Thanks Anet, for wasting 3 hours of my day -_- You might want to clarify this in the dialog. Or put a target ring on it.

I think I’ll have a bottle of whiskey and blindfold myself, maybe then it will actually hit.

How long did it take?
I’ve been here nearly from 5am, to now… almost 8am.\

There’s a green progress bar, is that bar supposed to go down slowly? Or will it go down all at once when I hit the ship for real?

Battle of Claw Island.
I’m clearly hitting the ship with the trebuchet. I’ve tried hitting the left, the middle, the right. I’ve tried hitting the front, the middle, the back.
And every other direction you can think of.

I launch the trebuchet, and boom, you see it hit the ship. The ship won’t go down.
What am I doing wrong? It’s clearly hitting the ship, it explodes on contact… yes, it hits the ship and it goes BOOM!, wood explosion sounds included!

Can you just skip me to the next step, ANet?
Now I see why everyone is giving up on personal story.

Let’s see… Right now I’m unemployed. I’ve also had problems sleeping (so I just take random naps). As you can probably guess, that means I have lots of free time so I’ve been playing Gw2 a lot since launch.

I’m only Lv 58. How can you be Lv 80 and have beaten the game? My guess is that you rushed through content. Did you explore every nook and cranny, checked behind that mountain and found that cave, did you stumble upon mini-dungeons throughout the world, did you help a player who seems to have trouble, and formed a new friendship?

My guess is you haven’t. So you haven’t really enjoyed the game. Make a new character, and this time, take your time, instead of rushing to the end and then complaining there’s nothing to do.

It’s like someone making you a feast fit for a King, you scarf it down in 2 minutes, then complain it was boring. Of-course it was boring, but that’s your fault, you didn’t take the time to taste it.

The basic design of an MMO is grinding.

The basic design of a bad MMO is grinding.
Fixed that for you

There’s no set path to go through, just explore!
Pretend that you’re truly your elementalist, adventuring through the world. You’re in this town Metrica Province. What would YOU do? Walk around and see what’s going on, right? Talk to some NPCs and see what they have to say.

Walk around, take your time.

Get used to it, they do this on purpose, for reasons which I’m sure you can understand if you think about it, but not appropriate for this forum so of-course I won’t go into it.

I refuse to play female humans too.

That’s nice and all, the problem is the majority of players are not aware of the 10% selling tax.

Most people here apparently haven’t seen the .gif I linked to and have no clue what they’re talking about.

Wtb Squid Stew (squid, potatoes, tomato sauce, something like that), 5 silver. Please send to mailbox!

Teh Gub’ment is spying on your gw2 communications.

Run!!!

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Chat_command
Read that, reply to this forum thread if you need more help.

/say Hello world!
Will say Hello World! to nearby players.
/s Hello World!

in particular i find it funny you have a necro, mesmer, and ranger, and you’re complaining you need elementalist to pull conditions off.

you mention healing and dodging but you don’t mention team protection nor team condition removal.

why is the poison lingering, simple, you didn’t remove it.

it’s not the dungeon that needs to be fixed, it’s your group.

there is no need to go tank/dps/support, everyone does a little of everything, focusing on their strengths.

I would type more but I’m on my phone.

Guesting, going to a friend’s world, is disabled at the moment. You’ll have to wait until ArenaNet enables it.
What you can do is get one of you into a Overflow server (but it can be difficult in some places that are too empty to trigger an overflow). Then the person not on the overflow right-clicks his friend’s picture on the party-list, and clicks “Join in overflow”.

I gave up on crafting too, I was using discovery whenever possible but the armor was always too low level to be useful. Part of this is that I was limited on fine materials to discover more things. Eventually when my crafted stuf got high-level enough to be useful, I’d ran out of matereials. Then I’d level up and the crafted armor became more and more useless. Rinse and repeat.

I wish I’d just cooked. If I don’t level it enough, no problem, the food is always useful no matter what! And everyone loves logging in to a piece of yumminess in their mail, right? :-P

Well, I won’t talk about the dungeon (I wanted to see how skilled the other players were) because I spilled water on my mouse and it was difficult to pay attention after that :-P

Anyway, back on topic, does anyone have any ideas how to make my engineer even more strong than she’s already traited and geared for? Did you as an engineer notice a sudden difficulty in Bloodtide Caves or another area? What did you do?

Well, it took way too long to kill those mobs. And I couldn’t finish the “end boss” of each event.

It’s a challenge, but it still needs to be completed, not just abandoned because it’s impossible for one person.

So I joined some other people (as party) doing some quests in that place, we had lots and lots of difficulty… we (4) were from Lv 44 to Lv 55.

In a area 45-55, I don’t know what’s wrong. Are we really THAT bad?! I want to improve, of course, but I don’t know what I need to do.

We’re going to do a dungeon, so I’ll let you know how it goes ;P

I’m playing an Engineer and everything has been smooth sailing until now. I’ve played zones well above my level, 2-3 person team WvWvW, and dungeons as soon as I got to Lv 30.

Now I’m Lv 54 and just got to Bloodtide Coast for the first time, coming from Lion’s Arch. It’s a Lv 45-55 area.

I go directly east and trigger the Alpha Drake quest. I fight it for nearly 10 minutes and only get him to 50% health. Sometimes he goes back to full health! A ranger shows up, and we kill the drake super fast. Amazing!

I go directly east, and do the ghostly pirate Lionguard quest. I’m alone again, and it’s very difficult. Not so much that I’m dying, I’m not, I’m kitting for minutes on end and barely killing anything. Finally after a very very long time, I kill most of them and a champion ghostly pirate shows up. I fight it for another very very long time and thankfully another player shows up. Oh no, how sad, it’s a guardian. It takes us a very very long time to kill the ghostly pirate.

Please help me out. What am I doing wrong? I’ve tried to understand how to improve but I just don’t see what to do. I’ve tried many different build, different trait set-ups…

Right now most of my gear is Precision and Condition Damage (since I’m using the pistols). I have Flamethrower which I swap to just to use Knockback and Blind as needed, and for the burning tool-belt skill. I have Slick Shoes to knockdown enemies as I kite, and Elixir B because… well… because Elixir B is always useful :-)

I bought strong weapons and armor from Trading Post (very pricey).
I’m Traited and Geared for damage.

How am I killing so slowly? Please help! :-S

I only repaired my armor 3 times.

If your group is doing graveyard rush, you’re doing it wrong and you (plural) need to learn to play.

Sorry.

So if they adjust FOV like in the animated .gif I linked to, it won’t increase networking usage, they can keep the enemy thing just like it is now.