The post is on the Dev Tracker. I don’t see how it could be more official than that. You said you think it will be deleted or locked because it’s “pointing something out”. I think that’s most unlikely. But if you want a reference post, here it is.
(And if it’s deleted there for “pointing something out,” it would be deleted in this forum also. Anet posting it here is hardly an assurance that it will remain in a situation where ANet is deleting their posts because they “pointed something out”)
Balancing SPvP individually——-
- This is probably the single most important change that the SPvP community needs whether you realize it or not. Not only does this make sense, but since SPvP is already isolated, not one change you make here effects the rest of the game. The way it currently works the devs expect us as players to think about the rest of the game before giving changes to a specific game type, however this way of thinking will never create good balance and the reason why is the majority of changes people suggest are obviously only made and will work for Spvp. WvW and PvE are very different in terms of balance and changes for one often conflict with the other two making the change almost meaningless to begin with.
The Lesh Prince recently developed some tech that makes skill-splitting more feasible than it was previously – you’ll see some PvP (and PvE) splits in the next balance update. It’s important to understand that changes will still need to be global, but we’ll definitely have a bit more flexibility moving forward.
Keeping parity between modes when possible is important to us – but when it’s not feasible we’ll look at splits.
edit: that clickbait though
Be careful what you ask for
ANet may give it to you.
Interesting to know this.