Guild Wars 2

We all know certain professions are far more popular than others, while some get the boot big time. No need to reiterate which professions fall in which part of the spectrum. We all know them.

Why not make an buff for unpopular professions in certain parts of play, such as dungeons and WvW. A.net has graphs of active player breakdown, so they’re known.

Every profession under the 12.5% mark gets a buff. In dungeons that’d be +%% direct damage and +Mf, in WvW it’d be +%% damage and +X supply carried. It would be a bit like the bonus xp/drops from long-living mobs..

Such a buff will clearly shift the pve/wvw meta since min-max players will start chasing the unpopular professions. This system will self balance over time where the opportunity cost for the buff will offset difficulty in play (eg rangers/engis are more difficult to play effectively until they hit a certain buff %%)

You will NEVER take away the Thief’s Poopstain of the Month trophy! It’s all we have left!

i think you are misguided in a thinking.

just because a profession is under played does not make it underpowered and therefor does not warrant any buffs.