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Ah ok thats exactly what I'm running right now

I come back after 6 months and it seems scrapper has been gutted. Now meta battle is not reliable whatsoever, and guildjen is pretty unreliable so I come here to ask what scrappers are running. All you people dueling till 4 in the morning give me a run down on what to play

Wtf so it just resets a random thing? None of mine that are equipped are reset. Maybe it did some dumb thing and reset one on my bank or something. It seems like it literally just disappeared and wasted 8 gold. And I only had like 30 gold since I basically just a casual PVPer

Well I have a bunch equipped but no, none in my inventory. It literally did nothing and just disappears.

I bought a capacitor in the heart of mists and double clicked on it, and it follows up with a prompt asking if you'd like to use it to change the stats on your item. Upon selecting yes it simply disappears and you don't get any benefit. It just wastes 250 shards of glory and does nothing. I guess you have to drag it on to your item or something? However this is not made clear, an it's a pretty serious issue that you can actually use an item to do literally NOTHING and just throw money away. The text straight up lies to you and then just destroys it.

Remember when I told you they would keep nerffing scrapper when I quit a couple months ago. They still haven't nerffed grenade scrapper lmao, just every other form of scrapper. I'm really glad I don't waste my time on this game anymore. . They gave up balancing the game and just make changes to appease the whiners now. They have so little interest in balancing it that they don't take more than 5 minutes to actually think about their changes. They just have some little numberical data that show specs overperforming so they can throw out random changes with the least amount of effort. That's why the game is trash and nobody plays it anymore

PSA for all the terrible god awful players in this thread 1. Look at the opponents your facing before matches 2. Instead of using your cookie cutter meta battle build change your utility slots for your opponents 3. Grenade scrapper has literally 0 ways to remove immobilize 4. Take an immobilize talent, maybe even a reveal one 4. Immobilize the scrapper 5. He can't move for 10 seconds 6. GG Imagine knowing so little about this game that you never even thought of this easy solution. Doing your pve dps rotation in PVP and reacting to damage and CC is not how you play. Once you get to platinum elo literally any 2 classes in the entire game using discord can one shot you. You literally die in 0.1 seconds if you aren't PREDICTING your opponents burst before it happens you're doing it wrong.

I literally have played grenade scrapper for years and everybody laughed at me and said it was trash. So you're saying it was OP this whole time due to negligence? It literally dies in 1 hit. If you dodge barrage/electro whirl it literally has only auto attacks left. And it can't even 1 shot you with those 2 attacks, people just panic and run away after that and die to the auto attacks instead of fighting the scrapper.

If you don't play every class in the game competitively then you have no right to speak on class balance. It just blows my mind that people literally only play one class and lack the self awareness and critical thinking skills to realize that a class becoming popular due to meta battle doesn't mean it's strong. How often does a class get buffed and suddenly become strong. Pretty much never, it's just some noobs finally discovered a build that top players have played for a long time. And most top players do not post their builds on meta battle for this very reason. The only defense classes have against the nerf hammer is keeping them secret from the masses of horrible, clueless players that don't even know their own class abilities. 1. Someone posts a new underplayed class build on meta battle 2. Noobs start playing this build and thus playing AGAINST it 3. Bad players don't know how to fight against it because nobody played this class prior 4. Bad players lose duels (which don't matter at all) and cry on forums. 5. Class gets nerffed Note that nobody ever complains about anything other than someone killing them. It's not a classes mobility allowing them to decap and win games. It's not a bunkers ability to hold the point. It's just the classes that killed you in a kittening duel. That's what makes people cry and gets the nerf bat swung. Horrible silver ranked players looking straight down at their keyboard pressing buttons and then crying when they die.

I read every single patch note over the last 2 years and none of those things happened. Another clueless silver lord here folks.

For everyone on the forums who whines about losing to classes, why is your first instinct that the class is overpowered? I have asked many of these players which classes they play, and they always only give me 1 answer. I've personally played every class in the game to at least platinum elo, and I still think I'm pretty ignorant about how to balance the game. But you play only 1 class, and don't even know the abilities and skills other classes have, but you think that the reason you're losing is because of game balance? Right now everybody is whining about some horrible scrapper full PVE build with 1 stunbreak an no stability. I've personally never seen a single person running this build in the top 100. I mean I play scrapper (I like reaper a lot more right now) but that's the last build I would use to push rating, as it's just good for stomping noobs who can't react in time. That's about it. A good player just predicts your obvious burst, and then CC's you 2 times and you're dead. But since nobody plays scrapper, most noobs don't even understand the classes abilities. They are just basing their opinions off the fact they are losing fights against it. If you truly believe the class to be strong, why not play the class to test your theory instead of whining about it on the forums first? If you actually go on the balance notes you can see that scrapper has only been nerffed for the last 2 years. Something like 20 nerfs. So these players think a class is suddenly overpowered, even though it has only gotten objectively weaker. It's literally only strong because it's a PVE damage build and lower skilled players are trying to play the game reactively instead of predictably. So ANET will probably ruin the whole class just because a PVE build became popular in the lower elo brackets. There's nothing actually good about it from a competitive standpoint. Just big numbers on grenades. So we have people who are just playing unranked games who think they know about class balance, even though they only play 1 class and are bad at that class. It's really sad because ANET has to appease their "customer base" and that means just handing out nerfs where they really aren't warranted. How often are classes nerffed not because a build is strong, but because it is popular and players struggle with it due to ignorance? The vast majority of the time. If a class can go 2 years with only having nerfs to suddenly be perceived as "meta" then it just proves the community is ignorant about game balance. If you really wanted to see if a class was strong or weak, you can't just have an emotional reaction to losing. It would be better to try the class yourself, but even that is subjective. You would need to have everyone try all the classes, an look at the data regarding which classes perform best. Otherwise we are just nerffing and buffing things based on what people "believe" to be strong or weak. That's the cycle we have right now. Noobs cry on forums an ANET tries to appease the masses. Balancing around low elo players has driven all the top players to quit besides the last few raging addicts. And the cycles of random nerfs and buffs will just continue endlessly until they finally shut this dead game down. It just makes me sad that every time I come here and look at the forums I see people posting about what "needs" to be changed in PVP. And the most vocal people talking about balance is always some silver ranked scrub that bases his entire post off the fact he rage quit after wasting an entire game dueling a bunker at far.

I hate to say this, but the truth is you're just bad at the game. Anybody that complains about horrible builds like this exposes themself. And I have no horse in this race, I don't play this build because it's just a bad build. If you look at all the patch notes you'll see scrapper has literally only been nerffed for 2 years straight. It's objectively worse than it was years ago, and everybody knew scrapper was bad then. The only reason why people are dying is because burst damage as a whole is getting to a ridiculous level. So people are running horrible PVE builds like this grenade scrapper that don't work at high level play. Having zero sustain an 1 stunbreak doesn't work, and if you watch top streamers you won't see them playing this. The kind of people who die to these builds are playing reactively. They don't know every class ability in the game and every ability for every class down to muscle memory so that 100% of their focus can go to reading their opponent. You should be playing predictively, and if you do that its laughably easy to beat a 1 shot meme build like this. But if you're playing reactively by the time you reacted to the huge damage you took, now you're just panicking instead of going in on the scrapper and killing him. Classic newb mistake. But fear not... ANET loves their noobs. They will just probably completely remove scrapper as a whole from PVP rather than nerf this one build. That's their approach. Noobs cry, ANET just removes the class from PVP. the noobs cry about another class. Rather than playing every class in the game... or at least the ones you have trouble with... just whine about them instead of learning how to counter it. And ANET will nurse their babies. What do I care.. after almost a decade of watching competitive PVP get destroyed by their catering to casuals I don't even log on anymore.

That actually works though because engineer has been nerffed like 15-20 times in the last 2 years. They don't really use objective statistics to balance classes, they just glance at forums to see what the noobs cry about and make sweeping changes to appease them until the game dies. The game is just so dead nobody even knows if the game is balanced except like the top 20 people. The rest of the population is just a bunch of ignorant steam players who only play 1 class and don't even know the traits or even weapon skills of other classes.

You just played yourself man. People only do that in the low elo brackets. And if you're any good you wouldn't afk, you'd just 1v5 solo carry the game.

Bro you've literally made like 3 topics about engineers in the last 2 days. I honestly couldn't tell if you were trolling or just horrible at the game. There's alot of horrible players but nobody is this dumb. All your posts are about buffing scepter catalyst and nerffing the worst classes in the game. Get a life dude

Scrapper has literally only had nerfs for 2 years straight so nothing has changed for the better. This just proves you don't know any classes traits and skills besides the one you play. Instead of recognizing your lack of skill and ignorance you just decided to complain on the forums. Well congrats ANET has nerffed it yet again. I guess you'll have to find something else to complain about now rather than just studying the other class abilities and learning how to counter them.

Ask your self what elo your ranking is. If you only play unranked assume you're in bronze and that anything you're struggling against is your own fault.

That's a horrible business practice btw. This game used to have millions of players and now it has a few hundred because they suck at balancing it. If they balanced it for competitive play people would have something to strive for. If you just nerf whatever people cry about, everyone quits because they realize its a waste of your life to invest time in getting good at something. Getting your class nerffed for being good doesn't encourage anybody to participate in pvp.

yeah you're totally right. I'm starting to realize competitive gaming is just a complete waste of time because nobody cares except the small minority of people who invested time in that one game.

No engineer build is played at high level. If they wanted to make a change they should have nerfed shape charge in PVP so that yo can't instantly stack 25 vuln for a 37.5% damage increase. Then holosmith and scrapper would have had their burst nerffed. Whatever. They obviously aren't going to fix anything and I'm done putting any effort or care into this dead game.

The misinformation posted by the horrible players in this forum post leads to yet another class being completely gutted in PVP. Getting hit by grenade barrage and electro whirl doesn't kill any class unless you are a 12k hp thief with berserker amulet. And it leaves the scrapper with literally no attacks left except auto attack for about 20 seconds. Meaning if you died to this combo you're really bad at this game.

Interesting theory but it's not true. Actually the truth is they just don't care bc only a handful of people work on gw2 right now. They are busy developing a new title.

So I live in the seattle area where ANET is and work in the programming field and apparently they are hiring people for a new title. Generally when that happens it means that they have given up on the previous one because the majority of companies can't afford to split their finances 50/50 like that. I would not expect to many new things in this game.

There really are no good websites. If you look on meta battle most builds have like 2 or 3 reviews. If you passed middle school math, you know that the average of 3 numbers is not very reliable. This is because nobody plays this game anymore bc it's a steaming pile of unbalanced garbage. I think people are attracted to it because they are coming from other mmorpgs and like the notion of PVP without a grind. But the truth is PVP in mmorpgs is an objectively bad idea and impossible to balance. If you just want to PVP you should just play one of the new 3rd person mobas that are coming out probably or league, or fighting games.

Everybody on the forums seems to understand how ANET fails at balancing the game. Everyone complains and says negative things. I just wonder why people who have such a negative experience still play. I mean I used to play this game all day but now have maybe like 2 hours a week for it if even that. Alot of the time on the forums people will pretend to act like they don't really care that much about the game. But the truth is 99.9% of people already quit playing, so the people who are left are in the small minority who really care alot and this just seems like the majority because the other people already are gone. I understand the nature of addiction and I honestly want people to better their lives and give ANET and incentive to fix this game. If everyone can have the discipline to refuse to play or pay any money until they work on fixing this game, they would have some incentive to actually do something. But if you guys keep playing and sitting here whining and giving them money, it just makes you look like an addict begging your dealer for his precious time of day, and then after 5 months you get something just to shut you up.