Engineer for soloing

[Halhammer]

Heal kegs are useful to some extent but were mostly used to leech RR for out of group heal in keep takes/defences.

Tanky engi kills a WE yea, mine was all glass cannon and would still win 60-70% 1v1. If you time all the snares, roots, staggers and dots right, she's dead meat.
Spec trees to make em tanky would be tinkerer and grenades, and stacking toughness/armour.

[Luth]

If you want to play a rDPS with melee capabilities, you have to play shadow warrior on order side.
The engi has some melee/close combat abilities, but the SW is way more effective/fun with his stance switching mechanic.

[Morf]

You could solo pretty dam well on a engi, if u spec defensively with kegs u can spam all your dots on target detaunt and heal yourself with ya kegs and if you are in a bad situation you have land mine stagger, barbed wire and kd from turret to kite or retreat. The thing with engi's is it isnt as easy as a sw where u can just kite all day, it requires more work but is defo more fun and rewarding.
Im sure players from EU servers remember pippu, the greatest engi i saw, if s/he ever made any vids of engi play it would be cool to see.

[Sulorie]

There were some like him, fully defensively and running back and forth at destro wc.

[Ototo]

Its a good class, but go for Magus. U gonna have the same, but ur gear will not be VASTLY handicaped with useless Strght. Leveled one Engi to 40, and eventually abandoned it cause i currenty had a Magus and the comparition was like "WTF?!?! This class is so inferior to the mirror....". Anywys they have 2 good points you will thank all along the game: they are tiny and easy to hide anywhr, just find a bush and u got cover, and the armour sets themselves are AWESOME, just loved every damn part of them, except the horned hat.

Look how cool the armour sets are

Spoiler:

Obliterator:


Devastator:


Annihilator:

(Loved these gloves)

Conqueror:


Ruin (PvE):

(Loved the hat)

Invader:


Sentinel (PvE):

(And this hat also)

Warlord:


Sovereign:

ADVICE ON SPOILER: Massive amount of pictures.

[Azarael]

U gonna have the same, but ur gear will not be VASTLY handicaped with useless Strght.

This is an itemization problem, so I will fix it.

[jonathanmurphy3]

If Magus is anything to go by, then yes - they're good at soloing.

Magus was one of the best solo classes end-game if well-played. Though it didn't have to suffer the ridiculous amounts of armor people were stacking.

[Ototo]

U gonna have the same, but ur gear will not be VASTLY handicaped with useless Strght.

This is an itemization problem, so I will fix it.

Then u gonna have to rework also the defensive buff. Engi get armour while Magus get Robe. Either buff Daemonic Armour or nerf Flak one. I think the second choice is better in overall, giving the fact that Magi have right now a decent balance survavility/DPS.

EDIT: im not sure, but i think that HERE the stats are reworked. At least here i cant see a single strght stat.

EDIT2: The need to rework the buff is cause, right now, the strght actually balance a bit the classes, making one (Magus) more offensive focused and the other (Engi) more defensive focused, in the line of not exact mirrors that Mythic applied.

[Azarael]

What?

The Strength on Engineer items is a throwback to launch, when Friction Burn, Spanner Swipe and other close-ranged attacks used the Strength statistic.

[Luth]

Engi get armour while Magus get Robe.

The terms "armor" and "robe" don't matter WAR.
There are only three types of armor: light, medium and heavy.
A light "robe" has the same armor value as a light "armor", same for medium robes/armor (non-stealth mDPS + WP/DOK).