We have seen a huge amount of updates to the ele’s conjure weapons to make them worth using, however the mortar hasn’t seen any updates. In fact it’s a nearly useless elite. The grenade kit with trait has longer range, more utility, does not keep you rooted, does more damage and has lower cooldowns.
I have never seen another engineer use the mortar. I would like to be able to drop a mortar down in a fight and see people react like people do when they see a fiery greatsword. ( Rush to get it because it does lots of damage. )
I think that no one uses the Mortar because it can’t crit. All turret’s cannot crit but as this a player manned object I think it should crit vs players and things you can normally crit on.
I also think that people don’t use it because horizontal distance is included in it’s range. In wvw for example, if you are sitting in the lords room of the south east tower I think you should be able to hit the gate with a mortar, but you can’t hit anything except right below you.
Arenanet has said that the Engineer was inspired from Data from the Goonies movie, in the movie he was a character to provide comic relief (even thought the whole movie was fairly funny), even the art for engineer is full of colors unlike the rest of the classes with their monotones. I think this means engineer should be fun to play in a unique way, but some skills aren’t fun at all. Engineer is the least played class in the whole game and I think Arenanet can make the class more fun by fixing the bad elite that is Mortar.
Please visit the mortar elite in the next balance update!
If you want to add an idea to make mortar better please post!
