[Fix Mech before nerfing always !!]

1 hour ago, Sobx.1758 said:

Maybe. You can always use personal target mark.

Sure you can but do you really think, players should have to do that? Just give me honest answer and I won't argue with you.

[Toxic player on the rise ?]

1 hour ago, Sobx.1758 said:

And btw, just like someone else already pointed it out above, I'm confused about your constant swerving between saying "the game is super easy" and then saying "x is too hard, it's ok to have hard content but only in...". It really looks you can't make up your mind what you're thinking about the content difficulty here.

It's not about me. It really doesn't matter to me if content is challenging to you or not. I find all pve content much more easier than game I am used to play.

I just don't like when people call casual, all names including trash player or lazy player or whatever the elite class think that they are somehow superior to other gamers.

[Fix Mech before nerfing always !!]

2 hours ago, Sobx.1758 said:

👍

Pretty sure "own" mech has a blue label, while squad members' mechs still have the green ones.

I am afraid that little blue label is not enough in moment of chaos. They can definitely give us better way to distinguish between your mech vs others.

And, to answer your other solution where you have to press a button to call your mech. Many times, mech comes halfway and goes right back to doing whatever it was doing. You have to call it several times and give f command to actually stay where you want it. But, if "F" command is on cooldown, it doesn't stay with you.  And, sometime it goes right past you and stay beyond 360 range.

[Toxic player on the rise ?]

10 hours ago, Biziut.3594 said:

Yeah but why using logic. This is better. xD

Player that know mechanics of the game + Giving advice how to improve = Toxic Raider. (No matter if said person even touched raids)

funny how you think your way is the right way. Could there be other side of coin, where people think (say) game should be easier where they don't have to improve their understanding of game mechanics in deep to just to have fun. Same goes for DE meta, it's open world group content. People of different flavor play open world specially when it was initially advertised than what it is now.

I am absolutely fine with having raid, or strike very very hard as long as easier version exist for regular people to enjoy. Not everyone has unlimited time or energy for everything.

[Toxic player on the rise ?]

42 minutes ago, Biziut.3594 said:

If you want game without challange go play on some private server or other game where its normal.

If You want game challenge then play pvp?

Pve is not challenging to me. I got my "envoy herald" 3 years ago. I am surprised you find this game pve challenging lol.

And, Yes I do play other game for little bit challenge, like soul games.

[Toxic player on the rise ?]

7 hours ago, IAmNotMatthew.1058 said:

The ones complaining that DE is difficult are clearly Raiders.

Casuals : DE meta too hard, nerf it Anet.

Toxic Raiders : Learn to play, up your dps and bring boon.

Casuals : thank you anet for giving us mech.

Toxic Raiders : Oh no, these casuals are doing almost as much as dps as we elite with our elite class. Nerf Mech Anet.

Yeah, I know how that went 🙂

[Toxic player on the rise ?]

On 10/22/2022 at 4:11 AM, IAmNotMatthew.1058 said:

"Raiders are so toxic, we are completely chill in metas"
Flashbacks to map chat when Gerent fails or the Octovines regen atleast once. Though, Dragon's End map chat takes the cake.

except those toxic one in chats are usually raiders.

[Fix Mech before nerfing always !!]

Hate to be like this but I am not liking this balance team. Mech don't have underwater bot. Also, they don't get toolbar and NO WEAPON SWAP either.  Now, you gotta hug the green guy when bot AI is really bad.

I thought their game philosophy was making game fun to play. This is exact opposite of what they said.

[Guild Wars 2 really have roles?]

15 minutes ago, Kozumi.5816 said:

DE meta is very difficult to impossible without raid comp roles.

This game is now a holy trinity game with a worse trinity, worse combat relating to the trinity(stack on everyone) and no role queue functions for LFG.

Really wants to be FF14 but is just a MUCH worse FF14.

Yup, its all weird now. No solid direction.

[If the devs want us to stay near the mech from now on, add a tag on the mech so we can see them]

5 hours ago, Beggar.2079 said:

Wait, so now mechs players will actually have to think about something ? 
kitten 😮

I find it weird that you actually have to think about playing this game at all.. What is so challenging to you?

[Why is mechanist constantly nerfed]

1 hour ago, zeyeti.8347 said:

 what should be rewarded the more ? someone spamming 1-2-3-4-5 , or a guy checking his heat level , switching to grenades, bomb , mortar kit (huh sorry superbeammmm attack) ,  pressing precisely a skill when heat is at 105% and calculate how many heat this or this skill will icnrease your heat level ? thats obvious !

Not sure what should be rewarded more !!! like, twitter employee or guy who does hvac??

[Nov 29 engineer changes]

If their ultimate goal is for everyone to just stack and spank, what is the point of even having range weapon.

Gw2 = stack, spank, do your rotation (which you can easily use script).. what does it sound like??

Everyone is bot in GW2.

[Nov 29 engineer changes]

2 minutes ago, Ludark.5732 said:

Not really. Power rifle Mechanist really doesn't Bench that high right now at 34k. However the mech itself is fairly strong and currently has insane levels of uptime and as a result Mechanist real world performance is vastly better than many other classes.

 

By forcing Mechanist players to reposition their mech once in a while you lower that uptime. Thus decreasing real world performance, but not the benchmark. Basically putting mechanist closer to other specs in actual gameplay, without comprising their performance in optimal scenarios. 

 

Whether this is fun from a gameplay perspective is something else entirely. But personally I think a pet spec should come with some pet management included and this accomplishes that.

okay, then they can give us our +4k dps back. As of right now, any half decent player can beat mech real world dps by 3-4k.

[Nov 29 engineer changes]

1 hour ago, Koensol.5860 said:

You know what's honestly pretty sad? People expecting to do all sorts of stuff at once while only spamming 1 non stop. This is an RPG game, not a shooter. Gotta have to work a bit more for your results. Maybe use some abilities instead of coping with 5 passive signets?

They can make mechanics interesting where you have to do alot more than pressing 1 But, anet always take easy route and make playstyle clunky.

I guess, it requires real talent to make mechanics of game challenging instead of throwing bunch of aoe on ground and clunky playstyle just to make game harder. This is just cheap and unfun tactics.

[Nov 29 engineer changes]

Good thing after DE meta, I quit spending dollars in marketplace because I didn't like the way game was going.  3 classes I liked, Reaper, Dragonhunter, Mech and all 3 are junk now. Everything has to be catered toward raid players. Tired of this philosophy.

[Mecha/ Engineer Rifle 1 Spam with multiple Traitprocs and Bot spam.]

1 hour ago, Grand Marshal.4098 said:

Complain for the right things:

1) Shift Signet needs to be axed to the ground in some form (900 range non-stunbreak port imo with another signet becoming the stunbreak)

2) Disable pet when entering downstate (rangers too), idiotic pressure and rez potential unfair for the other classes. Yes I can deal with it, should it be a thing? No. 

3) Reduce Mech stats by 10% for starters. It scales miserably in large-scale duh, we got rangers saying pets are bad in zergs since forever, but is quite powerful in 5man scenarios and clouds. I'd even say half the mech's stats and give it back it's breakbar if you wanna play it "fair". 

I'd not mind if they remove mech totally and distribute that power to player themself that way, mech is not stuck somewhere and losing bunch of dps. Becareful what you wish for 🙂

[Dragon's end Meta event]

On 10/30/2022 at 12:54 PM, yoni.7015 said:

I don’t see the meta dividing the player base, that is a narrative some have created here on the forum. There are the usual few that complain about it here. The situation in game is different. 

Echo chamber?

[Mechanist is dividing the Community]

5 hours ago, Frayze.4620 said:

Let me give my own opinion as to where another disconnect is. People massively overestimate their own skill level. They do not want to assume they stuck, or even need to improve. How many times, whether it be in a raid boss, or in pvp or in WvW, have you seen someone blaming another for something which is obviously their own kitten fault?

 

 Yes, the way build in your example is easier to do does with. That’s the point really isn’t it. Are you telling me then that I, as a slightly-above-average player, could go into a raid on mech and challenge for top dps with snowcrows? Or any other high level raiding guild? I doubt it very very much. They fight the same bosses we do, and so if their melee range dps can do more damage than a mech player, so can you. 

This hit the home. People suck and they don't want to admit it. Even scourage, virtuoso, fb can outdps power mech by good margin.

How I know this? I play those classes when I feel like it and I pull much better number than Pmech and I am not even that good of a player.

[Mechanist is dividing the Community]

4 hours ago, MaLong.2079 said:

Difficulty should not be a factor to determine if a class is balanced or not. If a class is made more powerful because it is hard to play then it will only be a matter of time before that class becomes a problem. People will learn how to play it, they will learn how to play it well, they will learn (or cheat) to play it consistently, and they will even learn how to get more from it than the designers even thought possible.

Thinking that difficulty can balance a class is a mistake.

People who is invested in game can do this. But there are people who just casually play it. Jump in couple of hours of week. what these elite people saying is, we are not allowed to dps or complete any content except play around Queensdale. Want a shinny in a year or two?, then practice whole month of play time in golem and by the time you are ready, Anet changes build. Then rinse and repeat.

Mech is truely jack of all trade. It's not the best on anything . I can beat mech dps with alot of different profession but I still prefer to play mech because IT IS FUN and RELAX for me.

[Shift Signet for all profession]

32 minutes ago, Shadowmoon.7986 said:

Most movement signets give 25% passive and that is it.  Add another passive that significantly imcreases the bots damage make it over the top. Having a active that is as good as other classes utilities without the passive does not help make it less op.

almost but you gotta remember, Mech trades tool belt skill for bot. Try WvW with mech solo or group and see if you still find shift signet op. Mech is just very easy to play in pve instant or open world but definitely not op in instant content anymore except alac version.

[Shift Signet for all profession]

11 hours ago, draxynnic.3719 said:

I'm still seeing quite a few mechs in instanced content for "bottom of barrel".

Yeah and McDonald is the most popular food place. Must have top of the line foods 🙂

[Shift Signet for all profession]

4 hours ago, Shadowmoon.7986 said:

The dev in charge purposely made mace and signets broken on mech. I have no problem with run speed passive teleport active, what makes it broke is the free boon share. 

 

so how does free boon share makes it broken? in which content? As far as I know, Mech kinda falls in middle of pack in almost every cat except alac pmech.

WvW, PvP bottom of barrel.

instant content, bottom of barrel.

underwater, Joke.

oh you are talking about pve open world? Yeah, lets nerf there so, we can officially delete the spec.

[Shift Signet for all profession]

4 hours ago, A Hamster.2580 said:

Honestly the blinking of Shift Signet doesn't even make sense in terms of lore. I can see a mesmer blinking with magic or a thief shadowstepping with rogue-like techniques or an elementalist blinking with lightning based energy or a scourge sandswelling with sand magic.

 

In terms of lore, how does a mechanist suddenly teleport from one position to another? In the wiki description and the description in-game, it states "you and your mech shadowstep to the target location". If you click on the hyperlinked "shadowstep", it directs you to the thief's skill shadowstep. So they basically just copied and pasted from the thief blink, but added a lot more to it and removed the option to return back to the original position.

 

Therefore, Shift Signet should not have the ability to blink. The active should just be the condi cleanse or maybe some superspeed to you and the mech.

Interesting point but what about guardian and rev?, ranger with smokescale and basically every profession in game?

[Shift Signet for all profession]

People are still after Mech?

[Mechanist is dividing the Community]

@Cyninja.2954@Asum.4960

I am talking about now but you were talking about pre patch. Not sure if you wanted to pull report from pre patch and nerf more?

If that's the case, go ahead and delete the whole mech.