Class balance
That’s because 8v8 is just pick up play for fun and learning, not for serious play. Play more 5v5 and the variety increases.
Jumzi (Ranger), Tarnished Coast
That’s because 8v8 is just pick up play for fun and learning, not for serious play. Play more 5v5 and the variety increases.
The point is hotjoin isn’t fun when it’s only for 4 classes. Also, there’s no point in doing tournaments alone because you’ll get stomped by premade teams.
If hotjoin is in the game it should be balanced.
If Arenanet’s data backs you up I am sure there will be some changes until then its just your opinion, and you have not factored in your ability to not suck terribly at PVP no matter what class yo play. Nor have you supported anything you have said with any kind of verifiable evidence.
A thinly veiled L2P argument, how original.
And look at all the forums here, and over at the Guru. There are 2 sides in PVP: The ones who play thief/mesmer/guardian/warrior and try to defend their OPness, and everyone else who argues for them to be nerfed or the other 4 to be buffed.
That’s all the evidence you’re gonna get without data that only ANet has access to.
A thinly veiled L2P argument, how original.
And look at all the forums here, and over at the Guru. There are 2 sides in PVP: The ones who play thief/mesmer/guardian/warrior and try to defend their OPness, and everyone else who argues for them to be nerfed or the other 4 to be buffed.
That’s all the evidence you’re gonna get without data that only ANet has access to.
I don’t play any of these classes and don’t think anyone exept Mesmer is OP. So your argument is not valid.
Most games I play in have an even sspread of classes, with necromancer being the least represented. Does this mean that is the case for all of GW2? No, just my perception of what is going on in-game.
As stated, when Anet’s statistical data about the entire game shows class imbalance I’m sure they will look into it.
There is another thought too…perhaps people just like playing certain classes and others are unpopular…?
You mean certain classes are popular just because people like them and not because they’re OP? this surely couldn’t be.
I play Necro.
I have never lost a TPVP match when playing against a Necro.
I have never won a Khylo match when the enemy team had more Mesmers than we did.
There is another thought too…perhaps people just like playing certain classes and others are unpopular…?
Most pre-launch polls showed Mesmers to be among the least preferred professions. The only reason why so many people play them in PvP now is because they are very strong compared to other professions.
There is another thought too…perhaps people just like playing certain classes and others are unpopular…?
Wow, that’s weird.
The funny thing is that in Guild Wars everyone ran Smite Monk till it got nerfed, then everyone ran Seeping Wound Assassin… nerfed, than everyone ran VoR mesmer…. nerfed, so everyone moved to Shattering Assault Assassin… nerfed, so everyone played Scythe Ranger… till it was nerfed. (these things I’ve listed aren’t in cronological order)
Strange thing that ANet nerfed every build people liked!
They’ll sure do the same in Guild Wars 2 because they are evil!
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For the last week I’ve seen pretty much 90% of the classes in all my sPVP games have been Mesmer/Guardian/Thief/Warrior. Occassionally you’ll see 1 of the other classes in a 8v8 game.
PVP simply isn’t fun anymore when half the classes aren’t even available because they simply suck compared to the top 4 classes who dominate them. There seriously needs to be some balancing, hopefully sooner rather than later.
Hehe, you made my day you put Warrior in the list of top 4 most OP class. its been pretty common knowledge, at least among the Hard Core folk’s that are in the 30’s+ in spvp that Warrior’s are the weakest class in Spvp. if i had to say top 4.. it would be
t/m/g/eng
What discredits the whole thing and is mentioned in the op is the widespread
“this entire class and all its possible builds are OP because its played by many people”
Because thats what your basically saying. Never mind that there will ALWAYS be a most played class and their will ALWAYS be a FOTM class until this game goes offline. Within a class their will ALWAYS be a FOTM build.
Start thinking about how many mesmers or guardians you were killed by and how they killed you and how you could have gotten out of it. If you come back and tell me there’s no way you can live against these guys then I agree with you ANET should look at it. However we’re a month in and already people are ready to gut entire classes because they happen to be popular or because its good ol bandwagon nerf posting time.