Christmas wishes: What's yours?

So, what is your guys' wish for christmas for our favorite profession?

Mine is simple: make pistol one explosive :<

Revert the scrapper related patches (this one and the gyro scaling causing you to be revealed).

I am a simple man.

@The V.8759 said:So, what is your guys' wish for christmas for our favorite profession?

Mine is simple: make pistol one explosive :<

That is a funny idea. I am waiting for this for a long time.

I do not have any wishes for the engineer right now. I really enjoy the recent patch.

@The V.8759 said:So, what is your guys' wish for christmas for our favorite profession?

Mine is simple: make pistol one explosive :<

undo this last patch

Wrong post. Can delete it.

Make the mats for Winter's Presence affordable. Was looking forward to getting them this year, but can't now due to the cost of needed crafting materials..

Give scrapper a real class mechanic.Thats one of mine.

My wish? How about if they implemented elite specialization specific skill splits? That way core engineer/scrapper could be spared the incessant skill hobbling nerfs Anet inflicts whenever they need to tone down Holosmith. Of course this is a pipe dream because the resulting skill permutations would make the game (more) unmanageable.

Elite spec weapons expanded to the whole class, mainly so core and scrapper could have a 1h power option.

heat mechanics for core weapons

@"tehroi.4619" said:heat mechanics for core weapons

So much this. I don't know why this wasn't a thing from the start, they don't even have the "too much workload" excuse, because core engineer has just 3 weapons it can use (rifle, pistol, shield).

Imagine if they had done the same thing with other classes, like giving the weaver just combination skills if they are using the sword.

Replace grenade kit with the superior-in-literally-every-way underwater version. Goodbye, ground target hell, hello functional ranged option.

@Hyper Cutter.9376 said:Replace grenade kit with the superior-in-literally-every-way underwater version. Goodbye, ground target hell, hello functional ranged option.

.. it's really not superior in every way.

Targeted means you can't strategically aim it into a group of players to hit them all, but instead must throw them at a single player, which might not be the best spot. eg. if the players are standing in a circle, you can't throw grenades into the middle of them.

It also means you can't aoe up to the top of a wall in WvW without a target, can't throw grenades to where you expect your target to be instead of where they currently are, etc. etc.

@Kodama.6453 said:

@"tehroi.4619" said:heat mechanics for core weapons

yup, i think i made a post about it after we were allowed to mess with pof specs before launch, bit silly that weaver gets new dual skills for literally all of their core weapons as well with their new espec, firebrand gets 15 new skills with tomes, mirages get new skills with all of their core weapons, etc etc but engis can't get some any love with our core weps :'(

@coro.3176 said:

@Hyper Cutter.9376 said:Replace grenade kit with the superior-in-literally-every-way underwater version. Goodbye, ground target hell, hello functional ranged option.

Actually you could have it both ways because we have these sorts of weapons in game right now.

Just treat grenades the way you treat shots from the longbow. Grenades are still projectiles for the purposes of shields/reflects. So keep it a targeted shot but if used without target or with auto-targeting turned off it's still throwable and aimable using mouse look(try this with your rifle or your bow some time in game). It will still have a parabolic/ballistic arc with drop off same as arrows for those who want to throw them into large groups of mobs or players.

Don't see the problem here.

As for what I want for Christmas for my Engineer, It's sort of simple. I'm leaning toward the talk about splitting versions of skills/talents between elite and none elite core specs. I'd have the following done;

Make Core-only specs have Special versions of their traits. The moment you slot an elite spec, regardless of the elite spec, you get the baseline version of those traits. This means there only ever has to be two versions of the core trait lines.

Treat this similarly to how AD&D was trying to expand upon the Mage class. You had base Mages which weren't restricted in the schools they chose from and then you had specialist mages who were stronger in single schools but restricted outside of that focus.

In this case we'd have Engineers which have access to all core speclines with enhanced versions of core traits available to them. Apart from that would be 'Specialist Engineers' something which focuses on a single aspect of the Engineer to the detriment of all else. They use their elite or specialist abilities a majority of the time but still have limited baseline functionality. In other words their other two trait lines would be the 'Engineer Lite' versions.

This could be done across the board to every single profession and would do well with mitigating power creep by balancing the weighting of trait lines If you take a super tree- which most elites are, then you get the lite versions for your other two base trees- or what in other games would be called 'secondary trees.'

This would free devs by allowing them to apply balance of elite lines where it's most needed - on the Elites- because they never have to worry about the lite- secondary trees interfering with the balancing of the Core, full versions of those respective trees.

In turn it would also allow them to tweak the full versions to keep them current without running afoul of making the elites overpowered and would allow for future elites to be made without having to worry about changing core lines every single time one is introduced.

Pick an elite, you get the bobo secondary speclines. No confusion. No ambiguity. Balance.

If you wanted to take it further, say if having unlimited access to enhanced trees was seen as too overpowered for core specs, you could have core-only specs decide to declare one tree as their primary, say a Demolitionist or Rifleman for example -upgrading them and treating them as Demi-elite specs- and have their supporting trees be 'lite' versions. You'd still have a core engineer for those who don't want to play elites but you'd be able to make that one tree you favour most even better.

Just something I figured I'd throw out there.

Revert back to pre hot when the engineer was a fun and diverse class.

Final Salvo come back

@PeLi.5498 said:Final Salvo come back

Please no. I love the new version

@The V.8759 said:

@PeLi.5498 said:Final Salvo come back

And I hate the new version. Like a wvw player, they fuck the engi. But we know that Anet dont care about wvw, so normal

mortar kit to look like a real elite weapon instead of a white skin.

@PeLi.5498 said:Final Salvo come back

Yes please baby we miss you.

I know i said bad things, but please come home again?