Engineer Shortbow Weapons BETA Guild Wars 2 First Impressions & Overview 

I'm really hoping they scrap it completely and have it redesigned from the ground up by someone who actually plays engineer. Even with major buffs I can see no reason why people would take this over any of the current weapons. Really disappointing that a lot of classes got weapons that fill in the gaps in their toolkit and Engineer got Mortar kit 2.0 but arguably worse. It feels like they forgot to make something for engineer and shoehorned this in at the last minute.

ill be exited when they give my engi weapon swap

Thanks for the showcase and insight. 👍

It might work if they give it protection and fury tbh. It's a support weapon that only pulses Might. Pretty bad.

wall of text incoming hmm mechanically it is fun and interesting but whole chain reaction thing falls apart quick if you dont position your arrows in the specific order and that's kinda hard in the heat of the moment. the fact its all ground targeted skills that have to be double tapped to activate (god forbid while swapping between a kit too) doesn't really help mid combat either. looking at the boons/condis i cant see it being used much in instanced pve or wvw (you CAN upkeep alac by staggering the detonation for barrier upkeep, but then you still have no Protection unless you want to burn though your heal skill og heal scrapper style) and with how clunky it is i only imagine it working as some sorta side noder in pvp and only if you get the time to prep the arrows on top of the node. the canisters detonating dont count as explosions so theres no synergy there with the Explosions traitline or elixits for that matter, with is odd since they do look like syringes and it would make sense for support. with 4-5 skills being seemingly copy pasted variations of the same skill it falls in line with Nades, Bombs and Mortar with makes it feel more like a kit and not a weapon with a range of utilities and attacks. the more i think about it, making it a kit would be genuinely great! atm with engi not able to weapon swap, equipping Shortbow just locks you into a slightly cooler version of mortar kit with is :s but as a kit? hell yeah! revive the mine kit, make tool belt explode all the mines for some mixed bonus, or tap the specific mine flip skill to do the chain reaction. then dip out and use an actual weapon \o/

tbh, I rather stick back to my mace/shield then using this crappy short bow as a support.... sure, it may look nice/cool in solo, however when it comes to intense situation such as fractal/raid/strike/wvw/pvp run, its start to get bad

Lazy way out. Could have been an actual new weapon.

AA needs more dmg...

It sucks, and not in a "go tweak the numbers" way. its just bad design.

by far the worst weapon design in the game. whoever designed this actually needs to be fired im sorry. It's atrocious.

Engi shortbow looks so boring and unnecesary