Guild Wars 2

I’m trying to see the positive in this weeks changes but, having a very hard time doing so. This is especially aimed directly at the balance team. Combat in WvW is horrid now. Should we even begin to talk about condi Mesmer and Engi Nades? Heck, I was doing 5k burns before on my Engi, it’s too much. Power creep across the board has made combat much less fun. Two or three button presses can melt players. How is that fun at all??? This is the wrong direction for a game know for it’s great combat.

Dev’s, please get on the ball here and get to balancing. This weeks patch wasn’t close to being ready to go live. We’re not beta testers for you. Am I the only one pretty astonished there’s so many bugs and poor balancing?

Balance can’t be done effectively until it’s on live servers.

Yeah most mmo’s use their players on live servers to determine balancing – it’s the only reliable source of obtaining data. No amount of testing internally can re-create player ingenuinity and creativity with builds to be able to properly test things.

As for whether the balance is poor or not, that is highly subjective and I’ve seen both sides of the argument here – many are saying the opposite. Pretty much every subforum has a thread which is about how theirs is the worst nerfed post patch and one that says how op their prof is now.

“and test out the damage” please, there’s dozen of possible variant of a build in pvp alone what with runes, sigil and am. Even more in PvE and wvw, add to that that the DEV must also focus on spotting glitches, bugs and eventual problems…
They are so sorry for not bowing to your every whim and taking into account Every single combination…
Player are testing out and finding things and anet will adjust as they see fit. Not everyone will be happy, but they’ll do what they can. The meta isn’t even fixed yet, it hasn’t even been two weeks and it always start with people doing as much dmg as possible. Then some will tire out of dying because of a fart and bunkers will take over, nerfs ans buffs will happen and then we will have a meta.
Do wait before complaining about unfairness

I agree with OP, there are many things that don’t require mass feedbacks such as thief’s backstab reveal bug, or the Engineer’s grenadier trait bug that OP mentioned.

Anet really need a beta test server for players, win win both sides, right now i am not even sure if i want to buy expansion because i know it is gonna be buggy as kitten.

I agree with you OP… I seriously don’t even want to play the game right now…

OP this is the best time of the game. it’s changing and evolving. You’re a part of that change, you can go out and discover things that maybe others haven’t with builds and stats. Things won’t change immediately, but like others have said things will get sorted out and a meta will be found