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I'm new to the game and out of all the classes, Engineer appeals to me most (thematically). If given the option to play around with guns and technology in a fantasy game, that's what I want to do!
But I've been doing some research and it sounds like Engineer might be kind of hard to play. Some people have likened it to playing a piano. Apparently this is because you have to switch between many different kits during combat. I've seen it said that most other classes can get the same results as an Engineer with far less effort. However, I also heard positive things about Scrapper and Holosmith making things a little easier, and Mechanist also looks really cool. So I'm close to pulling the trigger on Engineer, but I still have my reservations.
The main reason I'm hesitant is because in the past I spent a lot of time trying to learn a complex class in an MMORPG. In Lord of the Rings Online there's a class called Warden that was said to be the most powerful class in the game solo, able to complete group dungeons all on their own, but playing them was very complicated and required a lot of keypresses to execute combo attacks. It was a frenzied gameplay style that just got more and more unfun as time went on, and in the end I gave up on that character.
So I had a few questions before I commit to this class for GW2:
1) Is the Engineer truly harder to play than other classes, and require more effort to get the same results?
2) Do the elite specializations make things easier?
3) Can Engineers solo Champions and other difficult content? (I believe this is what elite mobs are called in GW2 but please correct me if I'm wrong)
4) Are Engineers welcome in group content? What role do they play?
Thank you!
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