Guild Wars 2

Ok, before I start, this is my personal opinion. though I would like some thoughts on the matter.

People in these forums are always QQ about balance and how it should be balanced, but a lot of the time those very same people I feel don’t understand what kind of game this is. People are looking for balances that make their class viable against everything which is how it would be in a perfect world (everything would be skill based)

this sort of balance is like socialism, works great on paper but in reality it’s awful. This is a team based game, so naturally you would need certain classes to fill certain roles. This means some classes are going to be pretty kitten weak to some and pretty powerful to others. I think if you really want to balance the game I would look more at balancing/reworking classes into the roles they’re suppose to play rather than try to force each one to be good at everything.

When you try to buff a class so it can fight all the other classes, and try this on every class, you are not going to get an equal fight, instead you’ll get one that was buffed slightly too much and becomes the god mode class, (I know, “god” is a bit of an exaggeration)

And my honest opinion on the current meta is we are actually pretty close to a half-way decent balance. The majority of the classes are viable in PvP, sure there are some really strong classes that are difficult in 1v1’s and so on, but AGAIN it’s a team game, use your team to overcome. they’re there for a reason. If you can’t kill mes 1v1, maybe it’s because they have a role as a good 1v1 class. In that case maybe you shouldn’t 1v1 a kittening mesmer, instead of QQing on the forums that mesmers are op. (i’m not a mesmer btw just using this as an example)

there are counters for everything providing you play as a team, instead of a single minded player. So in all, I feel like people get the wrong idea on how a team game is suppose to be balanced. Find your role, fill it, if you don’t have one, that’s what needs to be fixed, not the fact that you can’t kill Mesmers single handed.

-Your friendly neighborhood thief, Interfector

We are so deep in power creep that only way to balance the pvp is a total rework of all professions. One or two skill/trait changes are not going to fix it. I guess drastic measures must be taken in order to provide a basis of a balance. Then, we can build new ideas on it. But not until we have a solid foundation.