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Who do you think is the most balanced?
They are all fine. The difference in damage from balance-related class differences are much smaller than the difference in player skill and specific details of the current situation for most players.
You should focus on playing what you like – especially because balance changes happen regularly to keep that first statement true, which means that whatever is in the middle today will be somewhere else tomorrow.
the classes themselves are balanced skill wise, but the damage output both condition related and physical are off the charts due to HoT e-specs.
The other issue with the game is how people are able to build to be absolute tanks and still put out damage even though they are built to tank. same thing with heal specs. then the actual power spec just gets over powered by the skills.
Anet has made it to where people can just spam skills and get easy damage instead of having to set up combos.
the classes themselves are balanced skill wise, but the damage output both condition related and physical are off the charts due to HoT e-specs.
The other issue with the game is how people are able to build to be absolute tanks and still put out damage even though they are built to tank. same thing with heal specs. then the actual power spec just gets over powered by the skills.
Anet has made it to where people can just spam skills and get easy damage instead of having to set up combos.
…and, of course, nobody else is smart enough to have noticed that and, IDK, adapted to using those same builds to counter this.
I mean, it’s one hundred percent more likely that all the people working metabattle, etc, missed this whole problem than, say, you are just not as great a player as you think, and /that’s/ why you keep on dying so much.
probably revenant or necromancer.
In your opinion which class do you find to be the most balanced as far as damage, survivability, utility, etc. Basically the average Joe character.
Do you mean a balanced class for its own gameplay or a balanced class comparing its performance with other classes?
If you mean a balanced class for its own gameplay, so it can deal good dmg but is not squishy and can also support its team then i would say warrior, guardian, revenant, rangers, somewhat engineers as well.
1) Warriors: have good-high damage with great damage modifiers, their defenses are mostly passive (high base armor and health, high health regeneration and other dmg mitigation traits and skills such as blocking or endure pain). They can also support their team via shouts and banners as well as phalanx strenght trait, usually increasing everyones damage.
2) Guardian: Good dmg, nice burst dmg as well, some specific but good dmg modifiers as well. While they have the lowest health pool in the game they back it up wiht lots of regeneration, heals, blocks, invulnerabilities, blinds and other sorts of damage mitigations. They can also apply those defenses to other players nearby, also healing them and sometimes increasing their dmg as well via might boons.
3) Revenants: While he seems like a jack of all trades kind of guy, he can also focus on 1 role and exceed in them,such as, +70% damage, +100% healing,20-50% damage reduction ect. They have some nice utilities such as sharing all sorts of boons on all party members all the time, a very long 10-20 second projectile absorption, mass aoe condi clense and heavy cc. They have high armor and medium health.
4) Rangers: Great dps, usually ranged followed by melee. They have superb condi dmg as well. Their defenses usually involve dodging, evading, using pets to tank while you shoot from far away (the longest range in the game 1500 units, others have up to 1200.) Their utility involves buffing teammates dmg drastically, best burst healing in the game via druid elite specialization, nature spirits. They are also one of the more versitile profession in the game making it fun to play and never boring.
Do note that all professions can use any stat combination on their gear, meaning even a squishy thief can become a super tank that deals dmg trough bleeding
In your opinion which class do you find to be the most balanced as far as damage, survivability, utility, etc. Basically the average Joe character.
Depends a lot on the game mode. For instance, thief is great in open world. You move faster than anyone, deal awesome damage, and have great CC, self-healing, and damage avoidance. But because they offer very little group utility, they don’t compare well in group content to classes like elementalist that bring a ton of group utility on top of dealing excellent damage.
Also, consider that balance patches happen all the time. A must-have class for a specific game mode might become bottom-tier overnight. I hear this happened to revenant, which used to be a must-have raid class.
The Revenant is.