Guild Wars 2

A question that keeps coming up, in my head at least, when I’ve seen reactions to the Revenant skills is whether or not it’s fair to critique Revenant at this point. Right now, we are only able to judge Revenant skills against the base professions and their effectiveness. A potential issue that I see with judging Revenants now is what happens if we collectively decide to nerf or buff something about Revenant and then we later find that a Druid has sufficient counterplay to what was just nerfed? I mean, we know specializations are coming, and they are supposedly going to be integral to class balance overall. Are we jumping the gun here, or should we just continue to offer suggestions within the scope of the current meta/class balance?

It isn’t until everything about Rev is released and fully played. There are other legends, weapons and specialisations yet, plus Rev isn’t eleased and is subject to further changes,

Post-release you can critique it properly. Doesn’t mean feedback on what you have played wont be welcome.

Feedback on balance is welcome, because it is what they need in case there are things that need changing. But don’t let it be your final opinion on the matter, as things are subject to change.

Randulf.7614:

It isn’t until everything about Rev is released and fully played. There are other legends, weapons and specialisations yet, plus Rev isn’t eleased and is subject to further changes,

Post-release you can critique it properly. Doesn’t mean feedback on what you have played wont be welcome.

Betas are a time to offer feedback during development that can affect the finished product, i.e. Revenant on HOT release. Even after release, Rev is going to get re-balanced. I’m raising this question of perspective because you can hear in the tone of some posts that there is serious concern that Revenant is going to unbalance the game already. I’m hoping to level the discourse a bit and see how people are approaching giving feedback on Beta balance.