Guild Wars 2

I know that there is a large team of Developers, but I was wondering if we could find out what they like in the game, like whats there favorite class to play, favorite world bosses, events, and dungeons. Do they communicate about that kind of stuff somewhere?

They try not to have favourites, because that’d hurt the game. Don’t google kalgan, don’t look up what he did to the fragile balance in WoW.

Thanks to this guy I think Anet loves Warrior the most. The class is pretty much based off of him.

I take that back.

Guardian obviously. Theyre (too) strong in every mode of the game and never receive their deserved nerfs.

RashanDale.3609:

Guardian obviously. Theyre (too) strong in every mode of the game and never receive their deserved nerfs.

I’m just gonna say lol to this one, ranger is my main guardian my second. Guardian too good in all aspects not sure I agree. One of the most stable and balanced yes.

When’s the last time you saw one of these live casts from the Devs with one of them running an Engineer?

Mad Rasputin.7809:

When’s the last time you saw one of these live casts from the Devs with one of them running an Engineer?

A little over a week ago

Karizee.8076:

Mad Rasputin.7809:

When’s the last time you saw one of these live casts from the Devs with one of them running an Engineer?

A little over a week ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL8TlSMvEiE

As Karizee posted the run through of the new dungeon was done on a engineer.

Yargesh.4965:

Karizee.8076:

Mad Rasputin.7809:

When’s the last time you saw one of these live casts from the Devs with one of them running an Engineer?

A little over a week ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL8TlSMvEiE

As Karizee posted the run through of the new dungeon was done on a engineer.

The link I posted was the sPvP exhibition match to launch Mist League with 5 ArenaNet devs going against 5 members of Mist League

Karizee.8076:

Yargesh.4965:

Karizee.8076:

Mad Rasputin.7809:

When’s the last time you saw one of these live casts from the Devs with one of them running an Engineer?

A little over a week ago

As Karizee posted the run through of the new dungeon was done on a engineer.

The link I posted was the sPvP exhibition match to launch Mist League with 5 ArenaNet devs going against 5 members of Mist League

Ok, but the dev that showed the dungeon also ran as a engineer, did not click the vid.

Im pretty sure they hate thieves, we get some sort of nerf almost every single patch…

Cool to know. I missed those vids of them running an Engie. Thanks for the heads up.

Dude, guardian is the stable balance all other classes should be aiming for. Every other class should be brought up to that standard.

Warrior needs something to boost them in PvP, while toning them down in PvE/WvW.

Mesmer is a high learning curve, high reward class. I like where they are, but my guildies who main mesmers keep asking for build diversity.

Thieves – perma invisibility, high mobility, high burst damage. The absolute gods of WvW, but craptastic in PvE. I hate them enough to want them removed from the game – no idea what “fixes” they need.

Engineer – I don’t play one – my only request is that they tone down the flicker on flamethrower. It’s the only effect in the game that’s caused my wife (an epileptic) to have a seizure.

Necromancer – Seems fairly good all around, though I’ve not heard anything pro or con about them in pvp. But it’s PvP, so who gives a kitten?

Elementalist – Second worse class in the whole game. Our staff, even after this weeks buffs, is still a support weapon. D/D bunker is a niche build, and losing to it is complete L2P issue. S/D is fun, high damage, but slow slow slow. Even AI enemies avoid S/D damage,

Ranger – The unparalleled bottom of the barrel. Longbow is a joke, got a buff nerf combo (barrage got a 50% damage reduction, undocumented). Shortbow just got destroyed. The pet is beyond useless. There was 1 viable build for PvP, and everyone ran it, and got pets nerfed into the ground (gogo ANet, nerfing an already broken mechanic) There is literally nothing you can do on a ranger than can’t be done better by another class.

So, favoured class? Not sure there is one (thief, if there is). Best balanced class is def Guardian. Least favoured class? Ranger, hands down. Nerfing already broken things, and never fixing issues.

What they should do is bring everyone up to the guardian level of playability, utility, damage and damage mitigation. (Damage mitigation isn’t just armour. Blind, weakness, dodge, vigor for more dodges, cripple and evade are all damage mitigation).

Not supposed to make threads that call out for a dev’s attention. Trigger happy mods go!

wow teege you got the wrong impresion you seem to be a pretty negative person when it comes to gw2 forums :P

Well its definitely not Rangers…

Well its definitely Mesmers.

Krispy.7809:

I know that there is a large team of Developers, but I was wondering if we could find out what they like in the game, like whats there favorite class to play, favorite world bosses, events, and dungeons.

Warriors are ArenaNet’s favourite profession.

Rangers just got spanked by the last patch…. pretty sad about the nerfs to shortbow.