Anet, why wouldn’t you select/recruit some members of your community in order to help with the whole professions balancing ? I mean, there’s so much (good & bad) feedback going on these forums that it must be a nightmare to handle all of it by yourselves. Can you really sort all of it in an efficient manner ?
Chose a representant for each profession we have in-game, and let them help you with getting the feedback from the community (on the forums, give them some “powers” to make stickies, polls and what not). Of course these senators would need to have a strong knowledge of their representing profession and of the game in general.
We used to have those back on Star Wars Galaxies, and it was a great way for the community to be heard in a very efficient manner and for the devs to have some players to rely on to get some good feedbacks.
Think about it