Is it just me or is the engineer just useless, it has the lowest DPS of all classes, and it’s survive ability against more then 1 enemy is low, and his weapons is bad. Sure the rifle is good for kiting 1 mob when it’s 1Vs1, but it takes like 30sec to kill a mob then, when a warrior just need too use 2 or 3 skills to kill it. For the great-sword, press 5 and you charge your enemy, press 2 to do lots of damage, if the target is not dead press F1 and a big attack comes and often kill the target. So the Engineer need a melee weapon, A two handed hammer, and/or a one-handed mace!
But now you might say, silly you, the engineer have a melee weapon. Well let me tell you whats wrong with it. Engineer have his utility skills, when more then two enemies use the flame thrower and spam the 1 button, wait why spam the 1 button? Doesn’t it have the auto attack? No, no it doesn’t. I don’t know why but you need to spam the buttons on every weapon kit. And the melee weapon kit does less damage then the rifle, and it has no useful skills that make it up for it.
Arena-net made so that melee weapons do more damage because they know that in PvP and most in PvE people would use ranged weapons if they did the same damage, it’s harder to get a hit with a melee weapon and you are close to the enemy so it will hit and hurt you. But even if the engineer would get a melee weapon he still would use it, warrior can take three enemies at a time with somewhat ease, engineer will die, he can’t take that kind of damage. And now you say that Warrior are suppose to take damage, but the other classes can also take that kind of damage, the warlock have his minions to tank some damage and the elementalist have skills to avoid that problem in close combat.
And now I get to why the engineers kits are flawed. As I said you use the flamethrower with 2 or more mobs, and then you use the elixir gun when it’s less then 2 mobs, if you have support, or if you are attacking a ranged enemy. Because it do the most damage. If it is 1Vs1 you use your rifle, sure it does less damage but you have kitting skills, it takes longer, but you can avoid getting hit. And let me just say that you do exact the same damage with the flamethrower and elixir-gun, with or without and weapons, I would think that the stats would at least get over, but then again, if you have dual wield pistols you might get better stats then the rifle, I don’t know if it’s a bug or intended. And the “Dual” wield pistol is that you just use on pistol and not both, the the rifle always do more damage the the pistol do, unless you found a pistol that do more damage, but that chance is low because it’s one-handed and the rifle is two-handed.
