Fixing the engineer
Saturday, October 22nd, 2016 13:09If Anet actually wanted to fix engineer, here's what they would've done:
...and many more, but that would be a good start to bringing up Engineer to baseline level with other professions.
- Increase attack speed of pistol #1 (fragmentation shot) by 50%
- Reduce shield #4 (magnetic shield) recharge to 20s
- Add 1s stun to pistol #3 (static shot)
- Increase radius of all bombs in bomb kit by 60 units
- Increase all condition duration by 20% in the trait expert examination
- Increase rifle range to 1200 units
- Decrease gyro leash length to 180 units, teleport gyro adjacent to engineer when outside of leash length
- Return gyro to instant cast
- Increase shredder gyro speed by 33%
- Gyros blast when destroyed (a la turrets)
- Re-enable throwable turrets
- Make turrets immune to conditions
- Reduce gadget recharge by 33%
- Remove RNG from thrown elixirs
- Change A.E.D. to instant cast
- Increase damage bonus from glass cannon to 20%
- Remove cooldown from Thermobaric Detonation
- Reduce cooldown for Incendiary Powder to 5s
...and many more, but that would be a good start to bringing up Engineer to baseline level with other professions.