Guild Wars 2 Engineer class unveiled

The seventh class revealed for the subscription-free MMORPG is the Engineer, who's armed with turrets, bombs, mines, grenades and more.

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The penultimate Guild Wars 2 character class to be announced is the crafty Engineer, unveiled today. The canny ranged fighter will bring firearms, turrets, explosives, flamethrowers, and other gadgets to ArenaNet's subscription-free MMORPG.

The Engineer will be able to deploy a variety of different turrets, including plain old rifle turrets, AoE turrets and healing turrets. 'Backpack kits' will also offer a similar amount of variety, with different kits granting abilities with grenades, bombs, mines, meds and more. A bomb kit, for example would give the Engineer smoke, concussion, and fire bombs. It's a damage/support class, then.

They'll also get 'weapon kits,' replacing their weapon with something new and shiny. "For example, the flamethrower kit creates a short-range AOE weapon the engineer can use to overwhelm foes," ArenaNet says. "The flamethrower has skills like Immolate to damage nearby enemies, Air Blast to defend from ranged attacks, and Backdraft to suck enemies into range of the weapon's powerful attacks."

The Engineer will join the Elementalist, Warrior, Ranger, Necromancer, Guardian, and Thief professions in Guild Wars 2. There's still one more to be revealed.

While publisher NCSoft has said that Guild Wars 2 will enter beta testing in the second half of this year, and hinted at a 2012 launch, "when it's done" is still the most specific release date anyone will confirm.

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    May 19, 2011 7:00 AM

    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, Guild Wars 2 Engineer class unveiled.

    The seventh class revealed for the subscription-free MMORPG is the Engineer, who's armed with turrets, bombs, mines, grenades and more.

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      May 19, 2011 7:12 AM

      It's sort of funny to me how there's a well defined "engineer" archetype that all games adhere to now. Sort of like "priests" in RPGs

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      May 19, 2011 7:14 AM

      Spah sappin mah sentry!

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      May 19, 2011 7:18 AM

      Now I wanna play TF2. ;(

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      May 19, 2011 8:16 AM

      Did he just.... poop out a barrel of dynamite?

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      May 19, 2011 8:40 AM

      It makes me very sad, seeing that this will be an official class in Guildwars 2. Im really dissapointed because i don't see this class fit nicely in GW2. It has the same feel as they did with the 1st of April joke "The Commando". I'm fine with rifles and a pistol, but this isn't Modern Warfare or Team Fortress 2, where you get flamethrowers, turrets and grenades. It has really ruined the picture I had of what Guildwars2 would become. My dreams are shattered. Thanks to some crazy idea to maybe get a few FPS gamers over to the world of Guildwars. Instead of focusing on the true Guildwars(MMORPG) players. Sure there could be an explanation on how a turret would work with magical enhancement, but still it doesn't fit Guildwars if you ask me. Come on, toolbelts, medkits, jumpshots? Its likesome twisted combination of Unreal Tournament, Call of Duty and other FPS games put into an MMORPG which represents beauty, magic, lore... Sorry to say this, but i really don't like Guildwars2 as much as I did before they introduced this class and makes me doubt if i'll play it. And as a bigtime GW1 fan, with all expansions & everything that really hurts....

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        May 19, 2011 8:48 AM

        Chill out, they'll probably have a few public Beta events and you can see if it really messes things up for you there or not.

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        May 19, 2011 9:07 AM

        You're crazy. Warhammer had an engineer class that fit in well. No reason it shouldn't do the same here. I guessed this would be one of the classes, and I'm excited for it. Remember this takes place hundreds of years after GW1, and that weird race is excellent with technology. I don't see where you're getting all of the FPS references. As ORW said, chill out.

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          May 19, 2011 9:39 AM

          "Warhammer did it", well then, it must be a good idea...

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            May 19, 2011 11:41 AM

            Haha, I didn't say well-implemented. I said it fit in the game. I.e., it wasn't an anachronism or something. Also, I liked the WAR engineer.

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        May 19, 2011 9:35 AM

        I more or less agree with you. I think it fits in very poorly and I'm disappointed in it. The idea of turrets laying around is just... extremely lame. I'm still interested in the game over all but this did dampen my enthusiasm a good bit and had a fairly negative impact on the way I view the world they're creating. Flame throwers and grenades and healer turrets? bleh

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          May 19, 2011 9:42 AM

          They could act like immovable summons, I don't really see the big deal.

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            May 19, 2011 9:51 AM

            Me neither. I can't wait to play this class.

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          May 19, 2011 9:47 AM

          Would you feel better if it was a magical mage created doo-dad that shot magical balls of energy? FFS it's just a ranged class with a technology twist instead of magic.

          The world moves on. Technology advances. Did you also overreact when you saw the midget alien race riding in a mech suit?

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            May 19, 2011 9:58 AM

            People also complained about the machines in WoW although that theme was there from the beginning, this kind of complaining seems normal.

            I don't see the problem either.

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        May 19, 2011 10:11 AM

        I'm with you man, but at the end of the day I don't care. It's one class. Even loving engies in other games I wouldn't want to do it here because of the weird aesthetic but I don't care if other people want it.

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        May 19, 2011 10:13 AM

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        May 19, 2011 10:27 AM

        I thought, lore-wise, this fits into Charr technology. It doesn't really seem that far off from fantasy MMOs now. Look at goblins in WoW. They have motorcycles.

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      May 19, 2011 10:25 AM

      Will this be out before Diablo 3?

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      May 19, 2011 11:50 AM

      Dual Pistols .... sweet ... maybe I'll go grind some additional on GW:EN

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