Balance 28/04/20

More nerf with no compensation on Core Engineer:

Engineer:

• Mortar Shot: Reduced power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.85 in PvP only.
• Poison Gas Shell: Reduced power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.5 in PvP only.
• Endothermic Shell: Reduced power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.5 in PvP only.
• Flash Shell: Reduced power coefficient from 1.0 to 0.5 in PvP only.
• Hard Light Arena: Increased cooldown from 30 seconds to 50 seconds in PvP only.
• Emergency Elixir: Increased cooldown from 60 seconds to 100 seconds in PvP only.
• Transmute: Increased cooldown from 60 seconds to 100 seconds in PvP only.
• Bomb (Bomb Kit Skill 1): Reduced power coefficient from 1.2 to 0.85 in WvW only.

About Holosmith...Time to rework HLA or switch Protection or all boons for another thing?

after 7 jears of GW2 engineer was finally meta in WvW as damage dealer, it lasted 2 months. Thats sad, but it has been 2 good months.

@Kontrolle.3514 said:after 7 jears of GW2 engineer was finally meta in WvW as damage dealer, it lasted 2 months. Thats sad, but it has been 2 good months.

Flamethrower it is then.

I was expecting more nerfs honestly.

All were proper nerfs, and I main Engi in PvP.

Still getting upwards of 40% team damage when hitting my stride. Expect more nerfs if you are a realist.

Is prot holo taken care of now, or still completely broken AF?

@Kontrolle.3514 said:after 7 jears of GW2 engineer was finally meta in WvW as damage dealer, it lasted 2 months. Thats sad, but it has been 2 good months.

the powe coeff nerf isnt even that much.. people are still gonna paly dps scrapper in wvw

@Ovalkvadratcylinder.9365 said:

@Kontrolle.3514 said:after 7 jears of GW2 engineer was finally meta in WvW as damage dealer, it lasted 2 months. Thats sad, but it has been 2 good months.

Exactly, it's 70% of previous value. But considering other damage sources were not touched, bomb scrapper is going to do 75-80% damage compared to before.

Add stealth, AoE superspeed and decent condi cleanse.Power scrapper is still too far from being out of dps meta. Just that now bomb version isn't as ridiculously af broken as it was.

Very mild nerfs indeed. I like the changes and the implementation.

I... didn't even know this patch existed, didn't notice anything changed in PvP.

im ok with the changes except mortar and bomb kit Auto attack nerfmortar is getting all the status shots damage nerfed why nerf the damage projectile's damage too ? at least buff the projectile travel speed i guessbomb is a melee weapon and it has a delay so at least remove the atack delay on the 1 skill so it compares to other melee weapons

I'm curious to hear from WvW scrapper running bomb kit. Did they notice a reduction to the barriers from Impact Savant trait because their damage was reduced?

If so, maybe we could petition to remove the Vitality nerf ANET added last year.

Plenty of people don't run bomb kit , Blast Shield exists as well as Big Boomer, and the base health of engineer is higher than guardian or elementalist so good luck with petitioning for the tradeoff to be removed.

Rifle builds got deleted in the patch prior to this one, ouch.

@cgMatt.5162 said:Rifle builds got deleted in the patch prior to this one, ouch.

Yop! next step, they are preparing to delete holo build. At least we have scrapper... how ironic to say... and sad...

Just a funny thing I just realized... Hammer has an Explosion now, making it THE ONLY weapon on engineer that has an Explosion skill. Basically, Hammer is the only weapon that interacts on its own with Explosives, a core trait line... Is that the moment we can officially start calling core engineer "A worse Scrapper" and treat Scrapper as base line?(blah blah blah Harpoon Gun. Nobody cares about underwater)

How about we switch Tools and Scrapper in terms of elite spec? Hammer, gyros, F5 and barrier generation become a baseline as our profession mechanic, our profession is now called "Scrapper", and and if we choose "Tools" we loose access to hammer, F5 becomes dependent on our elite skill?

mortar kit still hits pretty hard, it's not bad at all. if anything, engi needs a bit more shaving in terms of explosive entrance. Of course currently, there are more overperforming things that need attention right now, but it's still an issue if left untouched. this is what happened to the recent iteration of prot holo before HLA got nerfed, something i was screaming about a while ago that nobody listened to me about.