Do you like playing the Mechanist in Guild Wars 2? This specialization can summon a mech to fight for you. Although the mech looks cool and handy in most situations, the developers agree there's still room for improvement. That's why one important Mechanist trait has been reworked in the latest update, and it is none other than Mechanical Genius.
For the uninitiated, Mechanical Genius allows you to showcase your knowledge in Canthan jade technology by building a battle mech that will fight at your side. It inherits 50% of your stats, but it incurs a stat-reduction penalty when it goes too far away from you.
This trait is now reworked, courtesy of the latest update. Instead of incurring a stat-reduction penalty, command skills like Rolling Smash and Barrier Burst now take longer to recharge if they're activated while the mech is farther than the range of 360 away from you.
This is godsend since a lot of Mechanist players have expressed their frustrations about the out-of-range penalty.
Speaking of Barrier Burst, this command skill is buffed, with the base barrier increased from 260 to 454 in PvE. Moreover, the healing power coefficient has increased from 0.2875 to 0.575.
Besides the Mechanist, Engineers can also enjoy a plethora of balancing changes, such as:
- Med Blaster: Reduced range from 600 to 450. The number of boons that affect this skill has been limited to 4 in WvW and PvP. Improved the visual effect of this skill to better match its radius.
- Fumigate: Reduced cooldown from 20 seconds to 16 seconds in WvW only.
- Super Elixir: Increased the base pulse healing from 163 to 204 in WvW. Increased the pulse healing coefficient from 0.05 to 0.1 in WvW only. Reduced the number of pulses from 11 to 5 in WvW only. This skill is now unblockable.
- Power Wrench: This trait no longer reduces the cooldown of tool-kit skills. Increased the elite skill recharge from 1 second to 3 seconds in PvP and WvW.
- Pry Bar: Reduced cooldown from 15 seconds to 10 seconds in PvE only.
- Gear Shield: Reduced cooldown from 20 seconds to 15 seconds in PvE only.
- Magnet: Reduced cooldown from 20 seconds to 15 seconds in PvE only.
- Gadgeteer: This trait no longer reduces the cooldown of gadget skills.
- A.E.D.: Reduced cooldown from 30 seconds to 24 seconds.
- Personal Battering Ram: Reduced ammunition recharge from 25 seconds to 20 seconds in PvE only.
- Rocket Boots: Reduced ammunition recharge from 20 seconds to 16 seconds.
- Slick Shoes: Reduced cooldown from 40 seconds to 30 seconds in PvE only.
- Throw Mine: Reduced cooldown from 30 seconds to 24 seconds in PvP and WvW.
- Utility Goggles: Reduced cooldown from 30 seconds to 24 seconds.
- HGH: This trait no longer reduces the cooldown of elixir skills.
So, what can you say about the newly reworked Mechanical Genius? Guild Wars 2 is available on PC.
