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Here's an extensive list of all the adventures I enjoyed: The end.

Or, you know, give core engineer the revenant treatment (with a twist) and expand its arsenal by adding a power-based DPS off-hand. Torch please? Or at least warhorn? Also "fixes" the issue that both mechanist and holosmith don't have a real off-hand.

Vindicator always has access to support skills - not saying that a DPS oriented vindicator is strong at supporting but it does have access to it. Also remember that vindicator, especially the greatsword wielding one, was supposed to be the AoE version of a power revenant.

That is precisely what it is for. Not every niche skill should be useful in every situation. There's still Plaguelands if you want active condition damage on your elite.

In which parallel dimension does Modified Ammunition offer any stat?

Incendiary Powder can work on a grieving Rune of Balthazar hybrid build that employs a rifle, grenade kit and both Explosives and Firearms. In general, however, yes.. it's mainly there for pistol engineers.

Auto attacks are, in this game, still considered skills.

While engineer have less types, they have more skills per type.

Can I have your stuff?

The off-hand pistol needs less off-hand pistol. It serves no design space properly.

While it not being a ground-targetted skill like wells can certainly be seen as a bummer, Plaguelands is the strongest elite skill for condition based necromancers that aim for damage over utility. Full trailblazer's should get you way more than 11.5 seconds of bleed from the first pulse on. More like 15 seconds for >2.4k on each of its pulses. It's an offensive area denial skill for those that have their boon denial covered by non-elite skills and/or traits. (Here's the build I'd be referring to: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?PSwAsiZlVwEZfsMGJWsTureA-zVJYkR3fpkToEbCmcE0RRJ8BIc/aUw0GA-w )

Dread is a damage loss to Close to Death, Curses is worse power than Soul Reaping (also you'd lose out on Deathly Perception) and Decimate Defences is potentially a damage loss to Soul Eater. While one can agree that supplying one's own fury is a non-issue for team PvE, OWPvE still is one of the most played if not the most played game modes and this is where the original poster's topic probably comes from. No solution given in this thread so far is a usable solution for the original poster and thus I agree, reaper cannot properly grant itself fury (in these circumstances) and should, therefore, be given options. Preferably accessible in Soul Reaping (how about, akin to Soul Barbs, having it apply X seconds of fury upon entering and leaving shroud?).

I'd rather they do not revert it. The shortbow, whilst mechanically interesting and aesthetically appealing, fails in practical use. Bloodbane's Path tends to miss predictably moving foes (let's not mention how awful it is versus those moving erratically). Sevenshot only had the chance for 100% damage if you were exactly at maximum range. If you were further away, then you get 0% (unlike many other projectile skills that can benefit from arcing). And if you were closer, it could hit for like 0~14%. It sucked, it was useless in most practical situations. Spiritcrush may sound like some neat breakbar damage coupled with burning but it doesn't hit fast enough for anything not immobile to suffer from it. And lastly, all it takes for Scorchrazor to miss is a simple strafe.In the end, the shortbow is a weapon that can only work if you target doesn't move. And guess what, it lacks any kind of soft CC and has only one weak, easy-to-miss, slow-moving and projectile-based hard CC. It looks good but it is terrible to use. Be happy that now it has at least a chance to damage with its signature skill.

How about: "Your life steal effects deal +200% damage and heal for -100% while above 90% health."?

It's true, though, that loot in general in Guild Wars 2 is trash, utter, bland, uninspiring, boring, useless trash that begs to be salvaged. There is no joy in getting loot because it's just more of that trash.