Guild Wars 2

Josh Davis.6015:

Hey folks,

Just a quick reminder: the PvP team is not responsible for profession balance. The PvP team, along with all of the other major feature teams, provides feedback to the skills team, but the PvP team itself is not directly involved in making balance changes.

What we do have control over – however – is the build panel (sigils, amulets, runes). It’s one of the knobs we can use to push gameplay in whichever direction we feel it needs to go for that particular season. For this release, we wanted to take support down a notch and increase the pace of combat.

It’s not our intent to completely remove professions from the meta – but things do fluctuate and I think we need to give the change a bit more time to see how it plays out. Elemental Bastion being bugged since Tuesday certainly has not helped the Tempest situation, but that should be resolved fairly soon and we’ll be able to properly see how ele will fare.

I know many of you fundamentally disagree with the removal of build items – and that’s fine. I understand where you’re coming from, but I hope you understand why we use this as a tool for balancing PvP specifically.

-Grouch

So you mean there is?:

• A dev team who creates skills and design them.
• A Balance team who reviews this and manages the skills output together
• A PVP Team who independently can change numbers in skills Trait, remove/change Amulets and reports balance failure to the Balance team

how does it work?
Do you communicate together?
Are there 3 teams on it?
Did i understand right?

Just played a match 4 guardians vs 4 guardians in solo que.

Pvp right now is basically guardians and druids with one random spec that is played ineffectively for pvp. I honestly dont see a need for anything squishier.

For example Guardian can Hold point, 1 vs 1, Support, put undogable fields around kills to secure them, Res enemies with same fields, best cc, great aoe damage, and knock people off point. At this point I’m stuck playing guardian this season. They even have mobility with their TP’s

Zelulose.8695:

Just played a match 4 guardians vs 4 guardians in solo que.

Lol and I am guessing the team with 4 Guardians won? :P

I jest of course. I was on a team of 4 Guardians earlier too, of course it was a landslide……

Let’s not kid ourselves here. Almost every new skill has been either a low CD utility or AoE designed to keep PvE engaging and effective on all classes.

Sadly both those things are toxic to pvp. But that’s all it is, sad.

The quoted text only mentions a “skills team” and a “PvP team.”

It says that the PvP team has control over the build panel while presumably the skills team has control over everything else.

There is no balance team, only a ‘skills’ team. The team responsible for introducing massive power creep with HoT especs is now in charge of balance, presumably while they also work on developing the next set of power creeped specs for the next expansion. And people wonder why balance in this game is so bad.

It feels like low resources are invested and so i fear it´s not getting better with next expansion just more power creep needing a year to balance while dismissing build diversity. A good way to ruin long term exitement keeping the game enjoyable. But maybe GW3 has already an anoucement date planed ….

Wolfric.9380:

It feels like low resources are invested and so i fear it´s not getting better with next expansion just more power creep needing a year to balance while dismissing build diversity. A good way to ruin long term exitement keeping the game enjoyable. But maybe GW3 has already an anoucement date planed ….

Whoever would buy GW3?..I mean spend over 100$ ( way more in some cases ) then being left empty handed while being asked to fork another 100$+ for the same failing company?…..If there are people that stupid..I should start selling bottled air for 50$ each

Balance is through the roof bad. So is SoloQ matchmaking. Literally every game today was Amber worthy. kittening Amber worthy players were in Sapphire. How the kitten did they get to Sapphire so quickly? They had to be Diamond or Legendary, but these players were far undeserving of those ranks. I myself am rusty, but I’m almost always the last to die, even under pressure, and I res when I can, and I stomp when I can. I heal allies, and I peel enemies as best as possible. I CC low hp players (and am usually the only one doing so). I know for a fact that I’m better than Amber level players, so why the kitten am I being teamed with them and fighting against players who actually are deserving of Sapphire? What the flying kitten Anet? You must have bugged something bad this time.

I’ve literally seen more skill come out of hotjoin players.