Guild Wars 2

I have no intent on promoting any other games, however, I wanted to point out a game that recently does patch notes extremely well, and which I feel Anet could improve their own patch notes by considering.

Check out these patch notes: http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/patch-38-notes-0

Every balance change whether nerf or buff has a reason explaining why it was done, granting the playerbase insight into the reasoning of the developers. I may not always agree with that reason, but at least the developer is being honest with the player and giving information.

How many complaints could be avoided if we knew why a nerf was implemented, rather than just trying to guess at the motives of the developers?

Arenanet, I would greatly appreciate if you took the time to do something similar to this for Guild Wars 2’s patch notes.

Oh how many things this would change if they did that…because at least then we’d have some insight as to ANet’s mindset when doing these patches.

thats what the blog is for. read that. they explain why they did what they did already.

roachsrealm.9284:

thats what the blog is for. read that. they explain why they did what they did already.

So they have a kitten good explanation to why they nerfed pets ACROSS THE BOARD instead of just in sPvP? Because as far as I can tell, there’s no good reason to make pets so useless for Rangers that there’s no point for us to be in dungeons and WvW when we’re gimping our party THAT badly. Plus now our general PvE performance is shot to hell.

roachsrealm.9284:

thats what the blog is for. read that. they explain why they did what they did already.

I’m sorry but I’ve read every single blog post and I have never seen them do anything near this detailed of an explanation. They explain general principles but don’t actually talk about any specific changes, so when the changes come out players are left with the feeling that some of them contradicted the general principles.

They need to explain the specific changes so we understand how exactly they fit into the principles that they are supposed to be reinforcing.