Currently ANET releases a “balance” patch once a quarter that hits all classes at once, which usually results in mild disaster. What if instead, they were to focus on just 1-3 classes a month, spread out over the quarter?
Is it possible that if they did this, they could do smaller, incremental changes either buffing/nerfing to bring them more in line with the other classes while they are static? This way you can alter a variable while having a baseline to compare against. The next month, you change your variable (class). This way, they could potentially avoid over-nerfing or over-buffing a class… if they roll out a change and it’s too much in one direction, they can pull back and approach the issue from a different direction rather than create a mess that will be around for 3 months leading to another nerfbat bonanza.