Guild Wars 2

Just a thought I had. When a big patch hits, there’s usually bug fixes and adjustment for all the classes and nowadays an explanation of “For this update we wanted to look at Necro’s X” as well. With nine classes though, some invariably get very minor text edits or nothing at all as the balance team is stretched over essentially the whole game.

So title question, Could themed balance updates help? Instead of trying to balance everything, themed balance patches might allow better focus on what needs fixing for a smaller section of the game.

Themes could be as simple as class based (The Rev update, Engie vs Thief) or could focus on a shared skill type (Signet Polish, AI Ally Overhaul) or weapon (Shortbow, Torch).

Just an idea. Thoughts?

Doesn’t seem like a bad idea to me. However, I can see people getting upset that they need to wait for their preferred class to be patched, and claim that ANet has “preference” for the class that got patched first… :/

If we got balance patches more often than every 3-4 months then sure. But at the current rate this could mean that some jobs go for years before being touched, which is absolutely not ok.

Biggest change I would want to see to balance patches is to have them come out monthly or so. They don’t all have to be big, but classes should be balanced far more often than they currently are, and they need to be balanced around all three game modes, not just PvP

Does this mean that they would nerf thief more often?

Well I’ve seen that in other games. The downside of this idea is that if you do a themed update with classes, invariably you will get people complaining that class x is getting nerfed while other should have gotten nerfed or whatever.

I think it will create a lot unhappiness because when everybody gets class balances it’s one thing…if only your favourite class gets it then people are up in arms, meaning that every time a patch comes some group will be massively crying out. Not sure if that’s desirable.

I wouldn’t mind seeing things like fluxes added