Start with a bit tankier gear - it might be a worse choice in the end but it gives you more time to learn from fights. Try to find opponents of a skill level that allows you to win at least sometimes or have close fights. You can learn from losses, but if they outplay you hard, it's difficult to see what approach actually leads in the right direction, because if you do some things better, you might not actually notice it. Ask your opponents for advice on the matchups, decent players usually know what works against them.
The thing that triggers me about engis is that when I look at arcdps afterwards, 60% or more of their total damage comes from explosive entrance... not that I can really blame them because engi isn't particularly strong without it, but it still seems pretty silly. Similar to condi builds with doom sigil, except that you lose the doom sigil effect if it's evaded, whereas EE stays until you land a hit.
No, you lose it on blind / block / dodge. You only keep it if the attack doesn't hit anything at all (shooting into the air / ground). That's one of the primary reasons why mirror matches can snowball quite hard, you hit first, they are blinded, now they lose their trigger. If you keep that pattern up you'll easily come out on top of trades.
if you had to start dueling with engi where would you start and what gear? seems preety unfun to get oneshoted by every thief and willybender so far
Start with a bit tankier gear - it might be a worse choice in the end but it gives you more time to learn from fights. Try to find opponents of a skill level that allows you to win at least sometimes or have close fights. You can learn from losses, but if they outplay you hard, it's difficult to see what approach actually leads in the right direction, because if you do some things better, you might not actually notice it. Ask your opponents for advice on the matchups, decent players usually know what works against them.
It feels like im watching a weird elementalist rotation
The thing that triggers me about engis is that when I look at arcdps afterwards, 60% or more of their total damage comes from explosive entrance... not that I can really blame them because engi isn't particularly strong without it, but it still seems pretty silly. Similar to condi builds with doom sigil, except that you lose the doom sigil effect if it's evaded, whereas EE stays until you land a hit.
No, you lose it on blind / block / dodge. You only keep it if the attack doesn't hit anything at all (shooting into the air / ground). That's one of the primary reasons why mirror matches can snowball quite hard, you hit first, they are blinded, now they lose their trigger. If you keep that pattern up you'll easily come out on top of trades.
@@Algeyr weird, could have sworn it didn't go, but guess I learned today
good old gw 2 where all classes have 15 sec of block... and some 15 sec of superspeed as bonus.
And fights can still be over in a couple of seconds :)
@@Algeyr or enemy gona superspeed the fuck away or blink 5x to next tower.