Guild Wars 2

Currently the Thief forum is drowning in threads from people complaining about thieves and WvW balance. I’d like to suggest a subforum for game / class balance discussion so that profession forums can focus more on playing the game with that specific class, with threads on how to distribute trait points, which skills and/weapon sets to use in some tight situations, tips, hints, discussions of tactics. Generally what you would expect from a class/profession specific subforum.

I think what you suggest is the direct opposite of what they want.

Because a sub forum on balance will very quickly become a sub forum on “fix my class” it is sub par. And is GW2, currently for a few classes, people got alot of real proof to back them up. Just look at ranger forum to see how a forum on balance will become if your class if ignored for near 2 months.

Also the sub forum will become a location when many will constantly demand nerfs for OP classes or skills. In which a few class(es) are/have, like warrior.

Also your sub forum will be be flooded with such posts. Just that with that forum, there will be more posts overall, as people fight/discuss over 2 locations.

Also as such a sub forum will be central to all classes, a wider audience will know about the issues of the various classes (even those classes they do not play). Which will cause the dev alot alot of headaches.

You’re seeing flooding profession forums is better? Now profession subforums are flooded with balance posts to the point where no normal, play oriented threads become extinct. The thief forum front now has like 6 threads that discuss something not related to balance.

Then limit posting in profession forums to accounts with an active character in that profession.

It’s getting worse again, few threads for players of the profession, most is QQ. If you don’t want to create a subforum for balance issues, at least keep these post restricted to one thread, or preferably out of the profession forums. I’ve paid for this game as well as any other.

But all of this is not a bug of the forum. It’s just a suggestion and as such it don’t belong here.

There is no sub-forum for suggestions about the forum making the ‘Bugs’ subforum the closest match. You think I hadn’t thought about that when I made the post?

There is a subforum for suggestions. You cannot create several 100 subforums just in case they might be needed. The more there are, the less we might see. Therefor I would ask for more disciplined moderation instead of more subforums.

For example: one sticky for balancing discussions in each profession subforum would be sufficient for me.
Why? It is bundled in one place and players as well as Anet employees in balancing mode could easily concentrate on this thread.
If it is getting crowded, Anet could make checkpoints for closing one and creating a replacement sticky.

This would keep the rest of the forums clean.

Balance issues are for developers to quarrel over, not the community.