Guild Wars 2

@Phineas Poe you may do that… but then you will not find yourself having to answer whispers about your awesome build. Pros and cons man, pros and cons…

I disagree.
IMO Eng has plenty of weapon choices.
Asking for 2h hammer for the Engi? Why? Do you work in the forge every day? Do you have the muscles to man that thing?
From a RP point of view, the 2h hammer for Engi is like the Pistol for the necro.

Regarding that vampiric necro trait… I don’t think anyone is using it except the bots in Orr… They never got it to work, never found a good way to balance it.

I would not pin my hopes on fixing some useless Eng traits with solutions found in the Necro professions. Ever.

Why do you all look so surprised? Where is the big News?
P2W FTL.

as good as you.

Leviathan.9850:

I’m not satisfied with “fine” damage when I can only see other professions rip through
enemies.

I agree. This is why I read and read and test every day in the mists…

Leviathan.9850:

PvE example
One time I was fighting 2 Nightmare Court Sylvari and 2 Krait. I switched between FT, EG and rifle like a pro, even if I do say so myself, stacking conditions, popping cooldowns, and all those hip things young people do these days. It took me quite a while but I had them whittled down to just one Krait after a several minute fight.

Warrior comes in. Kills Krait in a few seconds. Keeps running.

So, I don’t know… Seems like a bit of a disparity there?
Again, not saying kits-that-are-not-grenades-or-bombs have to be able to do the same damage as a zerk warrior, but the difference shouldn’t be this big.

Same for me, but usually I think “well… maybe a better engi player would match that freakin warr… or at least something close to that”.

axes, flails, scythes, bring them on!
oh, and lazerz.

Hello,
Is there a way to know if a specific item will be on sale in the near future?
Or if an item will be available again?

Example:
– I would buy a magitech armor skin, but it’s currently 800 gems which is pretty expensive for me; maybe I should wait and buy it when it will be on sale?

Thank you.

I would normally recommend using the “Search” tool, but on this forum it is useless.
On page 2 you can find:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/Looking-for-rifle-build/first#post3543674

And no, if you want a “rifle build” that uses rifle I guess you have to roll a warrior.
Engi uses rifle as a control / burst / movement wep, usually.

Krag.6210:

Today’s a great day, broke my bomb auto and mine field record in the same fight with this build.

meh

Where would we be without a banner warrior in our party hey?

maybe I can help you with my opinion of the Flamethrower /engi. The following words may not be the general opinion, the most objective, and so on; they are what I think.

- FT (flamethrower) is just a “cool” toy. While alone, you can play with it, but in a dungeon party / pvp / WvW / something serious, it’s not recommended because the damage output is much too low.

- keep in mind that with the engineer profession, you have a lot of toys just like the FT: They are cool / funny / and so on, but when serious DPS is needed you will need to have the right gear + the right spec, which may prove to be less fun (lob grenades which I find boring or plant bombs… which I find silly).

- if roaming in WvW is what you think you want, engi is ok. Depending on your server it may be good or bad. Blobs & hammers / small parties / duo-trio of thieves, etc – see the p/s or p/p condi builds.

- as others have said, it’s a versatile profession, and it will not put out the max dps; just like in real life I think, there is always a trade. There are not many people playing engineers. Why do you think that is? (No, it’s not a “hard profession to master”, IMO.)

- check the engi forums, for a clearer picture of what the profession is and what it lacks. IMO it lacks a lot of things, still, it’s the only one that feels (closest to) right for me.

Good luck.

I for one am not Sure the MF is worth it. I have ~70% now, and I mostly find Blue items. Greens are pretty rare, Rare and Exotics I don’t really find.
So far I have been recycling any item that costs under 70copper, and selling the rest. I saw that the cost of the mats is even less (than 70 copper) 90% of times, so even this is a loss of money.

What would you advise?

Been to the fight ~30 times. Always in overflow, without a guild party.
Not ONCE have a I got any dodge achiev:
- when I rushed first in, I was alone vs the boss for ~5-10 seconds. Got hit by something so failed the achiev from the start. That’s my bad and I learned not to go in first…
- when my group killed the boss (90% of times) there was Always a group that did not.
- some time we get a bear ranger that somehow pushed the bee(shield boss) agains a wall. This happend so many times…. everyone shouting “call your ****** pet back” but no use.
- some time we get a FT engineer / minion necro / some other useful combination, and the dps was lacking…

I hate this gambling AN keep feeding us.
I say gambling because for me it’s luck based: I may once get lucky and find myself with a decent 5 party that can actually dodge(so they don’t die) AND dps… we will see…

Wondrouswall that’s a lot of min-maxing.
Unfortunately (for me) I was in a CoE party yesterday and we had 2 more engineers. One of them used FT exclusively(he spent more time dead anyway) and the other P/S pew-pew-ing for crap dmg….

I use a combination of Power + Prec + Crit Dmg / Power + Prec + Cnd dmg. I mainy use Grenades (because IMO I am a bad/mediocre player and I don’t dodge very well, so I try to stay alive @ range);

I use the bomb kit depending of the boss we are facing(any boss that requires stacking see CoE / etc) / the party composition / etc.

No one says not to have more than 1 set of gear in your inventory: If your party is full of zerkers you can use a few pieces + cnd dmg. If you have 1-2 cnd specced people, you could switch to full zerk; In a fight that needs a lot of AoE healing/cnd removal you could equip your +healing armors and blast your HT every 16s. I pug 99% of times for dungeons and sometimes the mighty guardians are missing.

Carighan.6758:

Only it’s totally not true, but it depends on what you want to do in a dungeon.

Only it IS true. I play zerk necro. I get kicked every once in a while before entering because the rest of the players see “necro = conditions = kitten kill speed = not zerk war”. The parties that say “zerk warr only” I don’t even join, obviously.

Carighan.6758:

The support-y Engineer is redundant because the debuffs are already covered by the classes you got anyhow, and their healing capability is strong but just not needed. Active defence overcomes damage already.

I’m not even try to comment this thing. So many points to pick on…

Carighan.6758:

Necromancers, who in PvE are the unchallenged masters of boon/condition control, likewise just aren’t needed.

Big words right there, but necros, just as rangers / engi / whatever can have more than 1 spec. I know, news flash, right?

Carighan.6758:

In a way, both of those classes suffer from content being too easy in zerker teams. If there was a need for more support or control, then ofc support and control heavy classes would find a bigger role.

Right on bro. I totally agree and I will go right ahead and roll a warrior.

blutstein.2468:

With Modified Ammunitions and a few stacks might you see these sweet 17k jumpshots coupled with 4k AA Hipshotscrits (and with fury you are sitting around 85% critchance)

I have never seen any 4k Auto Attacks from my rifle #1. Maybe I’m doing it wrong (as in not having a banner warrior close by to buff me)?

havoc.6814:

I understand that some people on these forums have such an ingrained hatred of all things warrior that they cannot accept this, but it remains true

yes indeed, mostly the non-zerk-warriors that get kicked out of dungeons before they are given a chance I bet they have an “ingrained hatred of all things warrior”

On topic, IMO the bow is ok, maybe too fast. A heavy armor brute should not be very nimble with a bow in his great mailed fist. IMO.

A lot of players (necro / engi / rangers) have no place in dungeons. That is what I think most of the GW2 population thinks.
“Only zerk war / guard / mes!” sounds famuliar?

Maybe zealot would work for S/P or P/P thief using that healing signet… but for necros? I don’t think so.

Rifle is a control wep, for DPS you will need to use Kits (bomb kit / grenade kit / go conditions).

Anything else that will become account bound? Where can one find more info about this topic?

+1 for Magnus Steelgrave

and yea the armors look awful.

First post on this thread was 11 months ago.

They care about what we think.

Been there once, it was an insult.

hahah this game is great fun!
is it not?

no please, no more turrets… we know how they are after 1 year of “improvements”.

and how many might stacks

Yes Stx, you are correct

DuranArgith.1354:

Even the devs dont know what the warriors purpose is. They keep nerfing our damage to the point that soon there will be no reason at all to go melee.

hehehe dropping by on the warr forums from time to time is always a fun/sad experience

how does a full traited p/p compare with s/p for trash? both have spash, right?

HOOORAY THEY FIXED THE DUNGEONS GUYS!

Cormac.3871:

So, I’m a guardian who pugs, and because I have a staff I’m usually only welcome in TA

kitten roll a real profession that ain’t a bottom feeder and has some real party support man.

Kvothe.3260:

- Being Kicked from random Dungeon groups. (Nobody wants Thief in his group) Mesmer, Guardian and Warrior are the top clases.

well now…. I for one never saw a thief getting kicked because of his profession.

Oh, and I main a zerk necro. Try joing pugs as necro and then re-think your posts.

Edit: nvm, ALL your post is greatly exaggerated anyway.

i5 third gen, still close to death when a lot of people are around (PvE world bosses / WvW blobs).

I doubt this issue will ever improve.

Necro can have a decent hyb build. Also ranger, engineer & war. I know not about others.

Paladin… yeah… well Guardian is an overpowered face-tanking thing… you may try that one.

Phi Is Sly.1857:

no balance changes? yet new you managed to get a new cash shop item in :S?

how can this still surprise you…

Nick.6972:

As the title implies, do you like open world zerging?

I do not.

While one does dungeon runs, won’t more toughness get you more agro → more death ?

Thank you Travlane, I am now @ orc, but will enjoy it when(if) I get home!
Have a great day.

gesho.9468:

balance patch is i believe early march?

lolz kitten …

would love to see a CoF run after the patch by a Sword / pistol user.

good tips, will come back here.

war was in a good place
from the start

Any recent videos with a bomb eng in a dungeon?

Interceptor.2653:

What did you expect? You’re running enough Cleric’s gear to start your own religion

;D

Thank you for all the ideas.
I am sure I will not “grind” kills with a torch / wh / focus. I’ll start with the human ones like JPs and explorations.
Also dungeon masters, but that will be complicated.

1. Guard
2. War
3. Ele
4. Mesmer
…
the rest

Hello,
I’ve played on and off since launch, mainly WvW. After coming back a few weaks ago, I decided that WvW now days involves too many hammers and I would like to explore other parts of the game.
I got close to 5k AP now, but I never did anything special for them.

So my question is, where to start?

thank you.

Thief: a nice choice for weapons, active dmg mittigation (dodges / leaps / cloak), active play style.
Mesmer: too purple, too much glamour, definitely not my style.