Guild Wars 2

Why is it every MMO seems to fall into a pattern of constant nerfing? Is that the only balance mechanism they can think of? They expect us to commit to their games but they show little commitment to our characters when they suddenly chop them off at the knees in the name of so-called balance. I’ve had it happen many times in other games and I’ve had it happen several times already in this game, with multiple professions. Just when I’m getting comfortable with a profession and starting to really enjoy it, boom, down comes a hammer that seems to take perverse pleasure in making me feel less capable and powerful after I put in much thought and effort to reach that.

It’s like any ability that makes a character actually feel strong has to be smashed down, instead of allowing such abilities for every profession so that enjoyment is actually enhanced instead of continually dampened. In the end instead of a bountiful forest of choices we are left with a plot of equally blunted stumps.

Most of us play these games to feel a sense of adventure or accomplishment or discovery or usefulness that often eludes us in our normal lives. How discouraging it is, then, when even here we have a group of out-of-touch overseers that care more about crushing the slightest whiff of power than about ensuring their customers actually enjoy themselves. At the very least, they seem to be motivated by concerns that lack much relevance to many if not most players.

Why continue to build up characters knowing that with any given patch they could be chopped down to effectively what they were many levels and hours and days previous, thus making a mockery of my time and effort? And yes, that question sounds a bit silly even to me, since I’ve played enough MMOs to recognize that such is part of the bargain. I had hopes that this game might be different, and it seemed like it started out that way, but it has now begun following a well-worn path instead of blazing a new trail.

man my Warriors got mostly Buffs….

It’s called Balancing,not “nerfing”.

Don’t fix yourself on one build. You will get frustrated sooner or later. Play flexible.

tnarrant.9714:

Just when I’m getting comfortable with a profession and starting to really enjoy it, boom, down comes a hammer that seems to take perverse pleasure in making me feel less capable and powerful after I put in much thought and effort to reach that.

I might be being unnecessarily cynical here, but I interpreted this as “every time I jump on the bandwagon and start exploiting a profession’s OP abilities, they come in and fix it.”

But then again I’m an engineer – who cares what I think :P

Remember how GW1 looked at launch. Now look at the current state of the game.

It’s called power creep, if you only buff, in a short time all skills will be too powerful which leads to huge problems. Even without buffs and only nerfs, power creep starts to happen because players become better.

Nerfing a powerful skill is usually better than buffing weak ones.

Oxstar.7643:

No big surprise there, stop butt****ing warriors in every game already. They don’t need more love, they need LESS and other classes need MORE. I bet all the devs main a warrior.
I’ll say this ONCE. If you can’t be 100% impartial about all the classes then you are UNFIT to be a class developer and should be REMOVED. I direct this at any class devs that might read my post and anybody associated with them.

Because warriors,in your opinion..are too op because of one skill they have ? id you ever play with one btw ? Warriors can say the same about most,if not all other classes since were basically being forced to play in a certain way because most others arent effective at all,hence you see many people running around with thesame kind of build,weap of choise.

Caedmon.6798:

Oxstar.7643:

No big surprise there, stop butt****ing warriors in every game already. They don’t need more love, they need LESS and other classes need MORE. I bet all the devs main a warrior.
I’ll say this ONCE. If you can’t be 100% impartial about all the classes then you are UNFIT to be a class developer and should be REMOVED. I direct this at any class devs that might read my post and anybody associated with them.

Because warriors,in your opinion..are too op because of one skill they have ? id you ever play with one btw ? Warriors can say the same about most,if not all other classes since were basically being forced to play in a certain way because most others arent effective at all,hence you see many people running around with thesame kind of build,weap of choise.

You’re missing the point.
Warriors have had almost only buffs since start while other classes, worst of all Engineer, takes senseless nerfs.

If the attention is not redirected warriors will likely be OP in the near future which then will mean they get nerfed and other classes get changed to balance that out and it becomes a never-ending cycle of BS.

Seriously, I have seen this happen on too many games, and if ANet want to reach their goal of creating THE best MMORPG they must avoid it. As simple as that.

Try playing one of the classes that has sucked since release and hasn’t even received a single real buff yet. You at least HAD some time on top, some of us haven’t even had that yet.

It is called dev’s flavor. Also “balancing” around the PVP (which is the case in all the MMOs) hits really hard the PVE side of the game. Which is the case in GW2 as well.

I have yet to see a game that have separated builds and skills for PVP and PVE.

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