Guild Wars 2

Would it be realistic to say that this game intentionally lacks serious class balance?

The only trouble with the clas balance issue is servers. By that I mean a certain class may seem OP on your server because several players may be extremely good with that class. On another server there may be no players of that class that stand out and another class seems OP.
Its not an easy job to balance out the classes for any game that has seperate servers. Yes within a certain margin of error you can balance things. But you will alsways have times when a certain class is thought to be OP.

Thats where Blizzard failed because they listened to the whiners too often and changed the classes like every month. A/net will hopefully take the time to do detailed reviews of each class mechanic and see what(if any) changes are needed.

Phantax.1369:

The only trouble with the clas balance issue is servers. By that I mean a certain class may seem OP on your server because several players may be extremely good with that class. On another server there may be no players of that class that stand out and another class seems OP.
Its not an easy job to balance out the classes for any game that has seperate servers. Yes within a certain margin of error you can balance things. But you will alsways have times when a certain class is thought to be OP.

I don’t konw what you’re talking about, you mention servers, which makes no sense. PvP is global, you play against people from all servers and in PvE there’s always going to be some classes that do more dps and some which provide more utility. You can’t give everyone the same dps/utility capabilities.

As for class balance, it’s at the point you would expect it to be in a game that’s 3 weeks old. Give it another 3 weeks and I’m sure we’ll be at a better place as far as balance goes.