Xruptor.3965

Thanks for the responses, it gives me something to think about. I've narrowed it down Necro and possibly me returning back to Engi. It's a bit discouraging reading that Mesmer is underperforming according to quite a number of people. Since I've come back it just doesn't play the same. I used to enjoy it quite a bit. Necro though I'm afraid people are going to hit me with the noob stick as it's a very popular class and extremely saturated in the population. Since it's very beginner friendly. So that's something also I have to think about.

I played GW2 since launch on and off. I did play at the start of POF (briefly) but had to stop due to me finishing up schooling and earning my degree. I have some spare time and would like to return to the game. I played Charr Engineer pretty much as my main for YEARS. Yes even during the period of time people ridiculed it and called it useless. I understand that isn't the case now with Scrapper and Holosmith. I put a lot of time and effort on that toon, especially in story and unlocks. It would be nice to try something else for a change. I do have a maxed out Mesmer and Necromancer. I always did enjoy my Charr Mesmer (yes you heard me Charr, I know there aren't many Charr mesmers lol). It's quite hands on and always did feel very strong. Though when I returned, I noticed it feels very clunky now. Not sure if it's the abilities or what not but it feels like I'm striking with a wet noodle sometimes. Which is odd as I remember it playing a bit differently in the past. I also remember the shatters being a bit more engaging. So I looked it up on the web and apparently the class is absolute trash now? Something to do with patches or what not. Which is a shame because I was going to give it a try and unlock map completion on it and even story stuff. I don't know how viable it is in PVP and WVW and even in PVE stuff. So don't know if I should invest all my time into something that is extremely lackluster and doesn't play as I remember it. I totally don't know if I'd be wasting my time on this class and should just shelf it. I also have a Charr Necromancer (see a pattern here lol?). I always did enjoy this class. It seemed pretty sturdy and DPS was okay but not great. I recall them being terrible in certain aspects of the game but this was ages ago. I don't know how they fair now and I remember there being a stigma with the class. People calling it a noob class or something and that it's garbage for PVE or was it PVP? Can't recall honestly but I do remember folks hating on the class. I cannot recall why I didn't put much effort into the class, I guess I was just more focused on my Engineer. Is the Necromancer garbage? Not entirely sure if its viable anywhere or that it's even wanted? I don't know if I would be just wasting my time and should just put more of it on the Engineer. So my dilemma is, stick to the Engineer and just keep unlocking stuff and story related stuff and put more effort into him (He has a lot of completion stuff done). OR Try a different pace by switching it up with either Mesmer or Necromancer. Not knowing if I'm wasting my time in either of them as they viability endgame is wobbly at best. What suggestions or advice, would you give?

@Dara Potocska.8196 Like the post I put above. I tried several things and it just won't progress. I've even tried killing myself. I think it has to do with the NPC's (not Dragons Watch team) that keep doing that. There are two priests attacking him and I think it's glitching the wyvern. That or the wyvern gets stuck in one of the nearby pillars and becomes invulnerable and doesn't proceed to the next phase.

This is still a problem! Mine got stuck at 25% and I couldn't do anything to progress the fight. Are you sure you guys handled this or the bug returned?

I want to say this is the primary issue lots of newcomers to the Engineer have. They just can't tolerate the lack of weapons and don't want to use Kits. Weapon selection for Engineer is pretty abyssmal. No doubt about it.

Agreed, I just want them to fix turrets :( I miss turrets on my Engineer. Right now they just feel like wasted space.

This sounds like a great idea. I love the time and thought you put into it. However, I can't help but notice the similarities with the Elementalist mechanic. Instead of Attunements it's Kits. You switch around the Kits as if it you switch around the Elemental Attunements. Now there is nothing wrong with using a similar mechanic but if the devs want to make Engineer unique they wouldn't probably go this route. Though I would definitely play something like this on Engineer. Would be fun! But oh well.... the chances of Engineer being worked on or revamped or ANYTHING is close to ziltch at this point. The toolbet is here to stay and unless they do a drastic overhaul of Engineer like they did on Mesmer I don't see this happening.

Yes I agree. Since the last patch I haven't gotten the error "Memory at address ffffffff`ffffffff could not be read" anymore. So I'm assuming they fixed the skin/lighting issue that was triggering the crash. Hopefully the same thing for everyone else out there.

If not longbow then staff! Both would be nice.

I think that Kits are part of the problem. They haven't been scaled in a long time and are extremely outdated (boons, power buffs, etc..). If they went back and polished them a bit I'm sure things would be fine. That being said I don't think Engineers should get a weaponswap. Just use the kits. (Yes, yes I know you DON'T want to use kits... but it's part of the profession. Don't look at me like that... I know I said they are outdated. Use them anyways!). If you desperately want to 'feel' like you have a weapon swap then go Holosmith and go into Photon Forge. There you go a weaponswap. Sure it's not the same but it gives you the "feel" for one. Or you can simply just swap to a Kit. Either way I seriously don't think Engineer needs a secondary weaponswap. Now turrets.... don't even get me started on those. I feel like they have been abandoned by Anet in general. I wish they would go back and update or at least rethink the turrets for Engineer. Such an interesting mechanic for Engineer that is left behind.

Try this: 1) Hold down the Windows button on the keyboard and hit the R key.2) Paste in the following line: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Guild Wars 23) Click “Ok.”4) Locate the "Arenanet.log"

I don't think this is the same issue. Not unless guildwars 2 crashes for you completely. Next time it happens for you, if you have Windows 10. Press Ctrl+Windows+D. It will create a new desktop. You can launch task manager there (Ctrl+Shift+Esc) and terminate GW2.exe. To switch desktops or delete a desktop press Win+Tab.

Charr Male Necromancer.... they just look cool and I like the animations for it. Especially for Reaper lol.

There is a crash issue associated with this apparently. https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/19215/memory-address-ffffffff-at-fffffffff-could-not-be-read For those of you interested, apparently the client DOES write to a Error Log before it hard freezes. This will at least give you an idea of what is going on. Navigate to the following location in Windows. %appdata%\Guild Wars 2 or C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME_HERE\AppData\Roaming\Guild Wars 2 inside is a ArenaNet.log file. Read that and at the very bottom should be the latest error logged. Note my memory is just fine as I play several games. This issue seems to be triggered specifically by GuildWars 2. As many people are getting the error at the exact memory location.

My system keeps hard freezing as well. I can do CTRL+WIN+D to open another desktop to launch Task Manager on Windows 10 64bit. Thankfully I can terminate GW2.exe there. Usually when GW2 freezes it really hard freezes. Preventing me from doing anything on the desktop since nothing will get focus. There have been a few rare times where the hard lock is so bad I have to restart the PC. In anycase it just randomly freezes on me for no reason. I get this three to sometimes 4 times during a gameplay sessions. It's really annoying and I'm getting to the point I don't want to play anymore. Please fix this! All my other games run just fine on my Win10 64bit on a SSD. BTW This happened to me twice already just roaming around The Silverwastes. Primary thread related to this exact issue from Jan 9 Patch.https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/24075/crash-issues-after-january-9th-update-merged/p3 I've posted this in other threads:https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/15804/extremely-frustrating-freezes-and-crashing https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/comment/385345 https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/24075/crash-issues-after-january-9th-update-merged/p3