Guild Wars 2

Hey all, I’m new to this game (got it like three days ago) and am wondering how often there are big changes to the classes for balancing. From what I see, it seems like there was a very recent patch that nerfed/buffed a lot of things. There are a couple classes I’d like to play, but according to the posts here, some of them are at the bottom of the PVP barrel at the moment. So that’s why I want to know if Guild Wars 2 has lots of changes often with FOTMs coming and going, which would mean that the good and bad classes sorta just alternate. Or if they take a while to apply balances, leaving certain classes good for a long time and certain classes bad for a long time.

Right now with the upcoming tournament at PAX I believe we’ll get one soonish so the participants can get use to the changes. I doubt it’ll be a big change but minor tweaks to some overpowered skills/traits.

This is all speculation from constant reading of the forums.

Okay, well mainly I was interested in playing an engineer or warrior, but it looks like a lot of top players have put their engineers on the shelf for the time being, and warriors don’t seem to be that great. More generally, though, I was wondering how the history of patches has turned out. For example, I played SWTOR and for as long as I played that game, mercenaries were never used on top tier teams. Whereas in WOW, I’m told PVP sorta alternates between ranged and melee dominating. So would the warrior/engineer stay as a less-used profession or does ArenaNet throw out enough patches with big enough changes that soon they’ll alternate from underpowered to overpowered?

Engineer’s are still used. All though due to the last patch they seem to have disappeared as a team fighter. They are now either far point assaulter or bunking close. Quite a few engi’s in EU doing far point with bombs/ft.

how it looks its 1x per month
2 patches per month – the second patch (on20th+) is often the balancing patch

but i can be wrong^^

Usually 1 per month
The second one in the month is usually to fix the bugs the first one brought out.

I would like some bug fixes before balancing patches, but oh well, looks like I’m stuck with the same bugs from day 1.