Answer: More unbalanced crap that is more terrible, than it is right now already.
Solution: Instead of directly buffing Might for mentioned duration reductions, it would be much wiser and better for the overall game balance, if ANet would finally do this game something good by actually redesigning the complete set of all Boons and Conditions with the intentional goal behind that change to reduce both sides then to a maximum of 8.
Make in fact all remaining Boons and Conditions under their new design alot more impactful/meaningful, while the Classes get according to the made changes on Boons and Conditions rebalanced in their Skills and Traits so that the Class Designs fit again to the new mechanics of the new Boon/Condition System, followed by a Game Balance Design Change of all Upgrades fitting to the new Boon/Condition System, finished by lastly a greater Game Balance Update, that changes the Attribute System to Dual Effects to equalize finally all combat system related Play Styles (Offensive, Defensive, Supportive).
Anet seems to fear, if they equalize the combat system for all playstales to be equally viable, that this will lead to the return of “the holy trinity” and such classic roles like “Tanks”, “Healers” & “Offenders” (DDs), otherwise I can’t explain it to myself, why this game favors in its whole gameplay permanently the damage dealing over everything else, and why all kinds of defensive/supportive playstyles seem to be underpowered against an offensive played character.
Maybe this is due to stats like Toughness being useless and not really decreasing good enough incoming damage, same as healing power being in itself useless, without any other defensive stat like a high vitality, which is for me a reason to say, that this game needs finaly dual effect attributes with for example Healing Power being merged with Vitality. This would give both attributes in that simple way more impact, if you can improve both effects through just one attribute.
Change lastly the attribute system to the way it worked in GW1, where you gain Attributes through leveling up your character and where you can change them out like you want out of combat any tiem, instead of binding stat points to gear, and the game becomes this way also again much more multi character friendly and loses alot of stupid gear grind and becomes again like GW1 a game, where Fashion and the looks of your character stand in the front and not gear grind ….
Thats just my vision of the perfect Guild Wars 2 Combat and Quality of Life Experience that I’d love to see become real.
But I think this will never happen anymore within GW2… there its more likely to see a GW3 getting announced, than ANet showing up some real intentions to actually realy improve GW2s combat system instead of making permanently only number changes on skilsl and traits, while ignoring all the rest of the game sigh
Personally I like the idea behind sub classes ~ quoted from Chris Whiteside
