no, we really are. i mean, i wouldn't personally know since i haven't been to the arena in 171 levels but i imagine we rock. if you didn't know we have these really cool robots that can like hump tables and do tight-rope acts on fences and stuff... it's just like totally amazing!
funcom also gave us these things they call "evades" and they are like dark blue, but it's cool cause we have these badass shields that take up 60ncu each and we have these heals... but they are for our pets who have 53k HP, cause god knows they will need heals with that much health.
we also have all dark blue weapons skills except for that really uber "pistol" skill and it's only blue which is great. and since we are so freaking awesome we engies don't need to waste IP on silly things like snares, roots, calms, crits, heals, hots, dots, deprives and ransacks like all of those other silly classes do... god knows those are such a waste and don't help at all.
this one time my buddy met me in camelot and let me kill him in the 25% zone, he was 60 levels below me so i was definately going to own his ass... but silly him forgot to turn his reflect shield off and when i tried to hit him his reflect got me 5 times before i knew what hit me, and my nanomage ass was out cold! it's all good though because i got him down to like 98.5% health before i croaked, so i almost had him!
this other time i had a low level friend team with me and he recruited another low level dude... and i warped the guy to the arena without him knowing and tried to smoke his ass while he was still rezzing, but then this high level NT came and took the lowly level 75 out before i could, and he also tried to touch me in my private but i slapped his ass and ran like a little boy.
anyway, i'm just giving all of you gankers and whiners fair warning... if you see my engie ass in a pvp zone you best recognize fool! i'll judo chop your ass and throw a shoe at ya and i'm not even playing!