Guild Wars 2

I just need to say this cause all this “balance” talk is pointless.
If you played this game since release then you remember actual balance patches. Every game update had some balance changes in them now we just have changes after every few months.
April 2014 trait redesign changed basicly how every class works afterwards basicly no balancing of changes.
Expansion same thing it was like 2 times minor changes, do you really think that anet is so perfect company that can achieve what noone else has ever achieved, even WoW has PTR much larger company and much more players who are actually allowed to see changes beforehand and even they gotta work hard on balancing after expansion.

And after expansion same thing they shuffle meta every quarter release and leave it there.
They stack up on changes and do them all at once when you only need to adjust one variable, like with necro buff and bunker nerf, necro needed buff cause cele classes were to powerful, so instead of one or another they remove cele amulet and buff necro.

Perfect example is chill nerf, it had to be nerfed ages ago and if every time they put outfit or glider skin in gem store someone would adjust chill dmg it would be tested and balanced but instead they did nothing and now nerfed it by what 80% and made into bleed. So thats 2 huge nerfs aka just butcher it and move onto next meta.

There is no such thing as perfect balance in mmorpg especially in one like GW2 but they dont even try anymore.
So ye just find the new OP things and enjoy them for next 3 months then move on.

cyka blyat my friend

Ruru.1302:

cyka blyat

I know thats how they call arenanet in russia but please keep topic in english.

if you look at warrior, they stopped trying since specialization

Leeto,

Are you going to continue playing reaper? If so, which kind of build will you change to? And do you think there will be a place for necromancer in competitive play this season?

Agendath.4032:

Leeto,

Are you going to continue playing reaper? If so, which kind of build will you change to? And do you think there will be a place for necromancer in competitive play this season?

I will continue fooling around on my power reaper but for condi id just go base necro, just played few games on it and it feels OP, i mean Curses/Spite/SR with signets IS OP the only thing that hold it back was that everyone was running celestial builds and later just that reaper was even more OP. And it recks some builds that reaper doesnt like thief and condi mesmer.

I would think that with the pro league no stack rule you will definetly see necros.

Leeto.1570:

I just need to say this cause all this “balance” talk is pointless.
If you played this game since release then you remember actual balance patches. Every game update had some balance changes in them now we just have changes after every few months.
April 2014 trait redesign changed basicly how every class works afterwards basicly no balancing of changes.
Expansion same thing it was like 2 times minor changes, do you really think that anet is so perfect company that can achieve what noone else has ever achieved, even WoW has PTR much larger company and much more players who are actually allowed to see changes beforehand and even they gotta work hard on balancing after expansion.

And after expansion same thing they shuffle meta every quarter release and leave it there.
They stack up on changes and do them all at once when you only need to adjust one variable, like with necro buff and bunker nerf, necro needed buff cause cele classes were to powerful, so instead of one or another they remove cele amulet and buff necro.

Perfect example is chill nerf, it had to be nerfed ages ago and if every time they put outfit or glider skin in gem store someone would adjust chill dmg it would be tested and balanced but instead they did nothing and now nerfed it by what 80% and made into bleed. So thats 2 huge nerfs aka just butcher it and move onto next meta.

There is no such thing as perfect balance in mmorpg especially in one like GW2 but they dont even try anymore.
So ye just find the new OP things and enjoy them for next 3 months then move on.

hey man, this is why i left the game back in October. when i cared a year or two ago, i strongly advocated for a PTR. it would improve balancing and quality assurance, which are catastrophic on their end. consulting the esport kiddies doesnt quite cut it because everyone has their own interests in mind. it’s human nature. besides some of them being self-serving, there just isnt a large enough pool of high tier players to use as reliable guidance. make it an open, democratic process. it greatly served games like WoW, D3, Eve Online, and others, in nipping horrendous dev ideas in the bud, and finding lost opportunities. with gdub, you kinda have to sit through a whole year of a “bad dev idea” or a “bad QA feature” in the live game before there is enough salt on the forums and the feature gets nerfed into nothingness or removed.

and yes it is very much about shuffling the meta. i mean IceFrog does it in Dota 2 as well, but there are so many viable heroes that it doesnt really matter. in gdub, this approach is unacceptable. as you said, something is either OP (i.e. meta) or useless. and it’s on a rotation.

im staring at these patch notes, thinking about reinstalling. but finals end in a week and then Overwatch is out. besides, it’s looking like more of the same old philosphy, in a different (new meta) package. i still see a lack of vision and direction, and a general cluelessness about how high mmr pvp really works (like look at the ranger shortbow buffs, theyre totally out in space).