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I’d say the problem exists somewhere between your chair and keyboard. I main Engineer, and have a Guardian alt. Champions, at every level, are far easier to solo as an Engineer than a Guardian.
Based on what I said in my first post, any tips as to what I could’ve done differently?
I was kiting the mob sustainably and I would have killed her on my own eventually, I just found it very hairy and it took FOREVER. I felt like I had no breathing room, whereas it looked like a cakewalk for the guardian.
Would be helpful to hear how you would have done it.
TLDR: A fight that was really hard for me looked very easy for a guardian. Why?
The other day I was soloing a champ spider queen [url=“http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/thumb/c/c9/Rich_Copper_Vein_in_Metrica.gif/600px-Rich_Copper_Vein_in_Metrica.gif”]here[/url], and finding it really difficult.
Since one hit from her could take about 1/3 of my health I could never stand still and DPS comfortably. I was level 15 or 16 at the time, so I have just a handful of utility skills. I was using all the skills on my bars pretty much on cooldown, kiting like mad, using parts of the queen’s hill/nest for LoS, jumping, snaring, and launching, and doing nearly everything I could to stay alive. Crippling adds did not help…my dodge bar never got far above 50%.
I was able to slowly whittle down her health while keeping myself barely alive. Then when she’s down to maybe 25%, a guardian comes in, parks himself right in front of her, and helps me bring her down without moving, dodging, or losing more than half his own health (conservative estimate, he may not even have dropped below 75%). What’s even more surprising was that I saw this guy’s level as 14.
Can anyone make sense of this for me? Why was the guardian’s fight so easy and mine so hard?
Possible explanations I’ve considered:
A. The guy was really high level and just scaled down (in which case, would I have seen his level as 14?), so he had access to many more abilities than me.
B. The guy was really high level AND scaling doesn’t affect other stats that I’m not aware of, maybe gear stats?
C. Engineers are really weak at level 16, and later on it will be just as easy for me to solo champs.
D. Engineers are really weak (…in PvE at least) period, and I can always expect to have a hard time soloing champs.
E. Guardians are OP, and it’s normal for them to be able solo champs easily.
F. There was something terribly terribly wrong with my build (but even so, I cannot think how I could’ve built to make the fight actually EASY – can you?). FYI I was using rifle, rifle turret, flame turret, and heal turret. I was blowing up turrets on time, for the most part.
G. There is some extremely complex rotation that the guardian was using which requires such immense coordination that it’s comparable in difficulty to kiting+dodging+jumping+lauching+snaring.
H. The guardian had a non-class-specific buff from something like a PvP reward, quest item, or gem store purchase.
I. The guardian’s high defense is balanced by really low DPS; without my help it would’ve taken him stupidly long to kill the spider…although “stupidly long” would have to be like over an hour for it to be fair, considering how long it took me to get the spider to 25%.
J. The guardian had some kind +heal class buff which allowed him to get way more healing from my turret than me.
I’m having fun with my engy, but if guardians are as OP as this guy seemed, I kind of want a guardian alt for those times when I just want a lazy faceroll experience in PvE. But, what I want even more is for some more experienced engineers to tell me that the class gets more powerful as you level up, and I’ll one day be as OP as him! (Not that I enjoy standing still, but I’d love some cannon to go with my glass ;)