[Well, I lost interest in the class, maybe the game too.]

Yeah I'm done. Clearly their balance philosophy is anti-fun centered. I just can't deal with this anymore. I'm moving on to something else. SWTOR probably.

[So they just nerfed scrapper for a Third (fourth?) straight time?]

All my favorite builds got nerfed. So long GW2. I just can't deal with the anti-fun "balancing" anymore.

[(Scrapper changes) Let's not totally ignore the field requirement for combos]

Anet following in Blizzard's footsteps with this anti-fun method of balancing. Unfortunate.

[What Class Used to be Common to See but Now is Rare to See?]

I hardly ever see Elementalist or Thief specs in the open world.

[Can we change Jade Mech size?]

Something needs to be done with Jade Mechs, I'm an Engineer main and as much as I love the gameplay of Mechanist, the Jade Mech itself is so obnoxious to look at. I'm Asura and I have to constantly dismiss it so I can actually see my character out of combat half the time. It's very annoying.

[What missing weapon/theme/gameplay niche do you want?]

I'd rather they keep on improving the existing elite specializations tbh. The more specializations there are in the game the more difficult it becomes for them to balance and improve them all.

[If Engi were to get a new core weapon, what would you want?]

Staff with a Technomancy elite spec would be the dream!

[Skill slots and hotkeys weird behavior during skiff operation and Forging steel tank operation]

This is still a bug 1 year later. Amazing.

 

Slow Cruise is bound to Q, it works

Moderate Clip is bound to E, does absolutely nothing.

 

Anet please fix.

[What the heck is up with engineer damage???]

6 hours ago, shion.2084 said:

I can't imagine you'll have damage concerns if you run something like this...

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?PeQAIlRwgYesGWKO0LvtWA-e

Run that with Scholar runes and anything near you will pretty much melt.  You have condi cleanse from mortar flash with shredder, or blast from E gun.  You also have swiftness from acid bomb in lighting field (function gyro Or thunderclap Or spare capacitor).  So basically you always have swift, usually super speed, and lots of quickness.   Things will just die when you are near them use up hammer skills then fill in with mortar at short range and acid bomb.  

That builds looks like a lot of fun. I haven't used the elixir gun in ages, I'm going to give this build a shot, thanks!

[What the heck is up with engineer damage???]

I think what might be going on here is more effort is required to reach the same amount of burst damage my reaper is capable of. On reaper I pretty much just press the spin 2 win button and big numbers all over the screen, things die fast. On my scrapper I have to get my blast and shredder gyros up, then proceed with the hammer and toolbelt combos, there's some setup involved. It's all coming back to me now. Reaper felt really powerful, but kind of braindead boring with how simple it is to play. Scrapper feel less powerful, but more buttons to press, so more fun overall.

[Dye Mechanist Mech?]

It does look ridiculous seeing the same giant green robot everywhere, it's probably the only repetitive model that runs around with players in the game currently. I agree they need to at least let us dye it, or implement Ranger tech so we can "tame" other mechs. I refuse to even play the spec because how much I dislike the color green.

[Is it possible to get 100% world map completion on an alt without ever touching story quests?]

So I've been playing my engineer for the past month and have done every story content up to the start of Icebrood Saga. If I wanted to switch over to my Reaper and unlock all the maps my engineer did, would I have to go back and do the story all over again? Or is there a way to skip story and unlock all the maps some how?

[What the heck is up with engineer damage???]

So I've been playing my Scrapper/Holosmith builds for about a month now catching up on all the story content. I randomly decide to log into my reaper today, who I haven't touched in ages. I pop into reaper form and I'm getting like 12 to 30k crits left and right... veterans die in like 2 taps. My god, the damage. I had no idea engineer damage was so insanely awful. I'm lucky if I see an 8k crit on my holosmith. Both are in full berserker, near identical stats. What is going on Anet?!?!

[What are some good Open World Scrapper builds?]

On 2/17/2023 at 8:10 PM, Stx.4857 said:

Are you only interested in playing Scrapper?  Both Mechanist and Holosmith are much better equipped to deal with tough champion type mobs.

Yeah unfortunately. I don't like holosmith because I don't being transformed into bright shiny opaque hologram, and mechanist because the bright green mech also just looks obnoxious to me. Stupid reason, but matters to me. 😞

[The new engineer meta build after patch]

9 hours ago, Alcatraznc.3869 said:

I dont play PvP so I dont feel concerned by that. 

 

But even in WvW rapid regen is trash if you are not a healer. As for PvE, it's a very minor buff to heal Scrapper. I dont know what Anet is expecting. Its original iteration was correct but then they replace it with the old trait that too bad to be fair. And now they are re introducing the skill they previously removed but in a scuffed version. 

 

Also I wont even mention the big nerf Scrapper received on its superspeed making the skill straight up garbage

 

 

Wait what? Another scrapper nerf? I just came back to the game after not playing for years and have been having the most fun ever playing Scrapper. Where can I find the patch notes?

[What are some good Open World Scrapper builds?]

I haven't played the game since HoT. I'm looking for a spec that can solo these tough HoT hp champions. I've been doing some research of my own but am finding mixed results and confusion after so many nerfs and buffs since I last played.

[Very Low FPS In Trading Post [Merged]]

Is this still an issue? Did it ever get fixed?

EDIT: Still an issue, not fixed. 😞