Guild Wars 2

Instead of introducing new traits and not balancing the old ones because there first has to be a new meta, how about…

…not introducing new traits and fixing the broken ones first? That would do a LOT more for the game, not to mention the fact that Anet themselves found out that willy nilly adding new stuff makes for a horrible balancing process.

While I personally agree, plenty players want new traits. At least ANet is listening to the players.

Carighan.6758:

While I personally agree, plenty players want new traits.

I do not want to deny them their shinies, but I think they’ll either make things even more complex, or they’ll be left in the dust by the side of the road after the initial hype has passed.

At least ANet is listening to the players.

Hehe. The GM trait spoiler for the elementalist suggest otherwise. Players complained about eles having too little self-defense and healers having no purpose…so they got a healing boost to heals on all other players. That’s like, not listening to players twice in 1 trait. Quite impressive, really.

@ThiBash
I don’t know, I heard from lots of players ingame that they disliked that Elementalists cannot play group healer despite plenty skills and the whole stance suggesting it. Maybe that’s the purpose here.

Carighan.6758:

@ThiBash
I don’t know, I heard from lots of players ingame that they disliked that Elementalists cannot play group healer despite plenty skills and the whole stance suggesting it. Maybe that’s the purpose here.

That could very well be true, but the bigger picture is that healers aren’t needed anywhere in the game. Even in WvW, more heals come from people blasting and leaping through fields than from the actual heals themselves. That’s something Anet should have taken into account.