The Freelance Engineer is the latest in my series of Homebrew Heroes inspired by Guild Wars 2 professions. The model used is a heavily converted Siblings of Chaos Specialty Squad Leader Marianette.

I added flames for her boots, goggles with extra hair and a ram’s skull which I found very difficult to sculpt.

The Engineer’s mechanic in GW2 is the Tool Belt which can be customised with extra abilities. I decided to use something similar to Eiko Ando’s Prayer Slip mechanic, but in the Engineer’s case only she can equip these cards, they don’t take an equipment slot, and she doesn’t destroy the card when unequipping it. Essentially they allow the Engineer to swap out her abilities as needed. In our extensive playtesting of this Hero, we have found that while she is not particularly strong, she is excellent at solving problems. She has flown over difficult terrain, pulled a chest out of a pond, and seen through the enemy’s stealth. She’s very flexible!

Her potion gives her a 50% chance to push an attacking enemy back. This is especially useful in Arcade mode as enemies typically attack from max range. Since it requires her to be wounded before making the roll though, it will not be enough to save her against large numbers of enemies.

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