Upcoming engineer changes

[Infusion.7149]

https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/109025/upcoming-balance-notes

With this update, we revisited the shield and its trait and found that while its function remains reasonable, it needed a few improvements to both its messaging and potency as a defensive tool. A couple main-hand pistol skills also received enhancements to their condition duration, as they've been lagging a bit behind even kit autoattack options.

• Fragmentation Shot: Increased the bleed duration inflicted from 5 seconds to 6 seconds.
• Poison Dart Volley: Increased the poison duration inflicted from 7 seconds to 9 seconds in PvE only.
• Hip Shot: This skill now includes piercing in its tooltip.
• Magnetic Shield: This skill now displays a ring to indicate the area Magnetic Inversion will affect. Improved the tooltip to include more information. Visual-effect size increased slightly for better visibility.
• Magnetic Inversion: Increased the attack radius from 180 to 240.
• Static Shield: Increased the block duration of this skill from 2 seconds to 2.5 seconds. Improved the tooltip for better clarity.
• Over Shield: This trait has been reworked. It now causes the player to activate a skill that grants protection to nearby allies when using a shield skill.
• Soothing Detonation: This trait has been reworked. It now heals in an area around the engineer each time they use a tool-belt skill instead of when using a blast finisher with a fire combo field.
• System Shocker: This trait will now grant barrier to the engineer each time they use control effects on a foe, in addition to causing the function gyro to daze foes.
• Speed of Synergy: This trait has been reworked. It will now grant superspeed for 5 seconds to allies in a radius of 240 around the engineer when using a healing skill. Using a healing tool-belt skill grants the engineer 7 seconds of superspeed.
• Incendiary Ammo: Reduced cooldown from 50 seconds to 40 seconds.
• Flame Blast: Increased burning duration from 3 seconds to 4 seconds.
• Air Blast: Adjusted burning from 2 stacks for 2 seconds to 1 stack for 5 seconds.
• Smoke Vent: Reduced cooldown from 20 seconds to 15 seconds.
• Toss Elixir X: Reduced cooldown from 120 seconds to 90 seconds.
• Med Pack Drop: Reduced cooldown from 60 seconds to 50 seconds.
• Orbital Strike: Reduced cooldown from 40 seconds to 20 seconds in PvP and WvW. Reduced power coefficient from 1.33 to 0.9 in PvP and WvW.
• Shrapnel Grenade: Increased cooldown from 5 seconds to 6 seconds in PvP only. Reduced power coefficient per grenade from 0.63 to 0.567 in PvP only.

[SuperBacon.5726]

Not gonna lie I'm laughing at the change to grenades. Shrapnel isn't the grenade that messes people up the most, not sure how I feel about all the other changes. I'll leave that up to the more experienced Engi's, but I will be following this thread as I love Engi. One thing I would love to see is some turret love or just a massive overhaul in general.