Guild Wars 2

do we seriously have to wait until Winter’s Day for the next round of balancing? the thief and ranger have been broken since release, and that will make it 4 months before one prof is buffed into usefulness and other is nerfed to where all the others are.

it’s been 3 weeks since i last logged in, and i have no reason to do so now after the recent FoTM patch disaster (gear treadmill, thief burst unaddressed, ranger virtually untouched).

Wintersday starts in 2 weeks and a day. The last balance patch was almost two weeks ago. The last major patch included both thief nerfs and ranger buffs, not claiming they are balanced but they are clearly working on it.

Well since I have basically only done spvp so far I will do wvw and pve until then. But that point when the next patch comes will decide if I seriously play this game anymore. Then I will look for the next game or hopefully blade and soul or elder scrolls online comes out in Q1

Im just wondering if thief is so OP why in touraments i see more guardians/mesmers elementalists and necros lately then thiefs ?

Stin.9781:

Im just wondering if thief is so OP why in touraments i see more guardians/mesmers elementalists and necros lately then thiefs ?

You might be thinking of another post there buddy

Raijinn.9065:

Stin.9781:

Im just wondering if thief is so OP why in touraments i see more guardians/mesmers elementalists and necros lately then thiefs ?

You might be thinking of another post there buddy

http://www.gw2league.com/rankings-spvp.aspx class distribution in Paid touraments. Take a look at it mate, and as i said necros are on the rise.

Stin.9781:

Raijinn.9065:

Stin.9781:

Im just wondering if thief is so OP why in touraments i see more guardians/mesmers elementalists and necros lately then thiefs ?

You might be thinking of another post there buddy

http://www.gw2league.com/rankings-spvp.aspx class distribution in Paid touraments. Take a look at it mate, and as i said necros are on the rise.

But this thread is about the next patch being in January…..and so far most of the posts have been relevant to the topic at hand (hint which one does not belong).

Raijinn.9065:

Stin.9781:

Raijinn.9065:

Stin.9781:

Im just wondering if thief is so OP why in touraments i see more guardians/mesmers elementalists and necros lately then thiefs ?

You might be thinking of another post there buddy

http://www.gw2league.com/rankings-spvp.aspx class distribution in Paid touraments. Take a look at it mate, and as i said necros are on the rise.

But this thread is about the next patch being in January…..and so far most of the posts have been relevant to the topic at hand (hint which one does not belong).

The OP mentioned thief needing nerfs. If he is keen on saying thief needs nerfs i say, guardian need nerfs more, its almost 2x more picked class then thief, or any other profesion.

There will be a patch with the wintersday content 14 Dec wont there? Surely there will be. There was with the last event….

Honestly im finding less and less issue with thief burst…, the only issue i ever have with a thief is HS spam…mainly for the fact it negates all CC u can throw to escape, while any other class would be countered by said CC… I dont believe 1 class should have a perma closer, and should have a 3 sec CD added to it per use…but this is just my opinion

MistyMountains.3751:

Honestly im finding less and less issue with thief burst…, the only issue i ever have with a thief is HS spam…mainly for the fact it negates all CC u can throw to escape, while any other class would be countered by said CC… I dont believe 1 class should have a perma closer, and should have a 3 sec CD added to it per use…but this is just my opinion

Yeah, I know what you mean. Sometimes, it can be quite hard to escape a HS spam thief, especially when your HP is really low.

Truthfully … when I found out some developer from WoW got hired onto Arenanet’s staff, I completely lost hope in this game ever becoming an esport or truly good in of itself. Great mechanic … terrible, boring, stale balance.

I can already see this game copying / following the path that WoW has taken, which is focus mostly on PvE to maintain more players. It’s an understandable financial decision / way of running their business … but when it comes down to the PvP spectrum it is already taking weeks / months to get small little tweaks and balances which barely do anything to make PvP better at all while PvE gets the main focus, just like WoW.

There’s a kitten good reason this trash peaks at what, 200-300 viewers now on twitch? This game’s an imbalanced joke with rampant bugs, worthless runesets / sigils & combinations and so much more … I honestly blame the fact they scrounged up some ex-WoW developer for their team.

Just sayn’. The hype this game got was well undeserved.

MistyMountains.3751:

Honestly im finding less and less issue with thief burst…, the only issue i ever have with a thief is HS spam…mainly for the fact it negates all CC u can throw to escape, while any other class would be countered by said CC… I dont believe 1 class should have a perma closer, and should have a 3 sec CD added to it per use…but this is just my opinion

It basicaly has 3 second cd since it takes innitiative points that regenerate in 3 seconds, however if for last lets say 6 seconds thief did just autoatacks he now has enough for 2x HS to gap close and kill you, and its not a problem with heartseekers damage, its just that 450 gap closer should be remade into 350 or 300. But with faster animation a lil.

Thirsty.2875:

Wintersday starts in 2 weeks and a day. The last balance patch was almost two weeks ago. The last major patch included both thief nerfs and ranger buffs, not claiming they are balanced but they are clearly working on it.

Agree. I prefer the approach that Arena Net seems to have rather than the way most previous MMO developers have had (for example Blizzard). Nothing is getting fixed with quick, drastic and big changes. The more drastic balance changes are being made, the bigger is the risk of the balance being even more broken and hence even harder to fix and so on it will go. Into the death spiral of balancing we go.