Guild Wars 2

I thik anet has done a good job moving towards a good state of balance the different professions. If i consider the professions played in last days tournament, we have seen all professions been played, except guardian. This should be a sign that the current state of balance is quite ok. That beein said there are only a few adjustments to be made, so u can choose ur profession by ur prefered playstile again and be viable. Guardian has to be adjusted to be more competitive and mesmer and rev need slight shaves, cause there is no team currently running without them cause they are clearly a musthave, maybe druid is a bit too strong aswell.

All in all the different professions made a step towards ech other with the last balances and i really like that fact.

Youre talking inter-class balance. That is an important aspect and probably the first to be adressed, but its not all.
Inter class I agree does appear to be alright, tho its hard to tell. Last season it took weeks before chronophantasma became a thing.
However most classes being somewhat viable does not equal balance.
Intra class balance is still at an all time low.
And unfortunately a fair game doesnt mean the game is good.
If this fairness is achieved by powercreeping like it currently is.
So yeah. We definetely had some progress, but simultaneously setbacks in other areas and there is still a ton of work to be done.

A lot the “variety” you see in ESL and similar tournaments is artificial because of the “maximum 1 of a profession” rule.

i would say balance is at an all time low and diversity is basically nonexistent.

the reason why dragonhunter is unviable? because it’s too onedimensional and has been nerfed quite a lot. on release it was broken so they nerfed it. then it was nerfed because bad players kept crying, then it was nerfed because of wvw. the spec is good against player that don’t know what happens if you walk into a trap. if you play around the traps.. then.. well, dh is useless.

chronomancer needs to be nerfed the most
herald needs damage reduction
if tempest needs to be nerfed is debatable.. i feel like the spec has enough downsides to be balanced. yes it’s boring to play and play against, but not necessarily broken.

overall elite specs are still too strong, be it reaper or scrapper or whatever and i would like to see them nerfed even further.

on the other hand i would welcome buffs to other specs, even if they’re niche builds. we have many useless skills in this game that could benefit from a buff. ele glyphs, thief traps, to name a few.

what i dislike the most is that 90% of the time both teams run the same setup with the same builds and amulets… it’s disgusting.