Guild Wars 2

Hi forum and ANET.

I posted the below thread a while ago and I would like to come back to it now.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Tired-of-hoping/first#post5373354

With the latest news for HoT and beyond I am very exited and hopeful about PvP in GW2 again.

The last round of changes were really nice, although some didn’t quite work as I expected, but the nerfs are incremental instead of gutting, the buffs are still a bit much, but thats fine, as long as it gets attended to on a semi regular basis.

If you can stick to your 3 monthly balance patch schedule properly, I would be super happy!

Thanks for the effort ANET! Hope you can keep it up!

See you in the mists!

I’m having a hard time maintaining my hope. They balance every few MONTHS, they’ve alienated a large portion of the community by doing nothing about leavers and D/Cs for such a long time, their recent balance changes show no insight into the problems with burning or elementalists in general, SoloQ is gone, lack of communication with players but for a few bursts of discussion, etc.

I used to be this game’s biggest fanboy. I spent money on Gemstore items, bought the most expensive expansion, I’ve been around since beta, and I played GW1 extensively. So I really love this game, and I have a strong attachment to it. I want it to be great. I like the community, and there are some great features to GW2 (e.g: combat system, exploration, no real gear treadmill) that make it tough for me to consider any other MMO.

At the same time, I’ve been so consistently disappointed, that Idk what’s keeping me around at this point. There were some changes in this patch that made me pretty happy, but let’s face it, they were minor tweaks. The fact that it took this long (and still missed an opportunity to fix some of our biggest complaints) just kittenes me off.

Javonovich.5280:

I’m having a hard time maintaining my hope. They balance every few MONTHS, they’ve alienated a large portion of the community by doing nothing about leavers and D/Cs for such a long time,

That’s not entirely true. On the contrary, I think they did a bit too much on that regard. Since december, pvp has been great, because the new system drastically reduced the number of 4v5 games I was playing. On the other hand, to achieve this, Anet decided to lock us in HotM, which defeats the purpose of creating a funnier pvp, imo.

Javonovich.5280:

I’m having a hard time maintaining my hope. They balance every few MONTHS,

That’s a good thing. You don’t want developers making changes faster than that.

The problem with short time between balance changes is that the meta may not have settled yet.

I’m fairly new to guild wars, so I’ll use a example from a previous game: SW:TOR. SW:TOR uses the trinity system and has tanks. Currently of the three tank specs in that game, the Vanguard tank is considered vastly superior to the other two.
However it’s worth noting that the Vanguard tank has not received any significant changes since patch 3.0. But when 3.0 launched the community considered Vanguard tanks to be crap, because it was crap before and the 3.0.0 buffs didn’t look like much compared to the buffs the other two tanks where getting, it was over a month after 3.0 before the community caught on to how strong Vanguard tanks really where.
What happened? Vanguard tanks where uncommon prior to 3.0 because of how weak they where. Because of this it took well over a month for the wider community to realize how strong the spec actually was.

This is why balance patches take so long, because the developers need to make sure that what players claim is actually true, or is it just a case of the players not figuring the new meta out yet.