Guild Wars 2

do you guys think balances should be more focused on traitlines to a certain extent to vary gameplay more than just weapon changes? i mean it would be nice to have a diversity of trait lines instead of running 2 vanilla and one elite – surely this can’t keep happening when new specialisations appear and replace the old one (e.g., reaper trait line being replaced by the new elite one) the next “meta” old specialisations still have to be useful right? just a shower thought i guess >.>

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All in all balance updates need to rework alot in terms of traits and skills.
How well that will go we’ll just have to wait out and see.

Thing is, how do you expect the system to change about the 2 Core – 1 Elite-Line-Thing?
The only thing they could do there would be either to allow multiple elite-lines, let’s be honest, that shouldn’t happen.
Or they could try to introduce more core lines… which sounds unrealistic.

So what do we have inbetween?
Well… mostly rebalance in what we have so far, maybe apply some of the philosophy that went into the elite-specs into the core lines?
As in top, middle and bottom lines have a true and linked purpose.
Maybe some traits should change altogether? Written in Stone and Powerful Auras would come to mind for a complete overhaul.

Furthermore i still think that the core-classlines (Discipline, Arcana, Soulreaping, Tools, Trickery, Illusions, Virtues, Beastmastery and Invocation) need a complete rework and should be elite-specs inthemselves so that you can’t use both together, let’s be honest here, it is, in some builds, one of the reasons for overperformance.

So… yeah, we need big updates in that regard, preferably we’d even get giant updates as soon as an expansion hits just to make sure that new elite-specs don’t overperform.