Anet I would like to ask for a teensy tiny itsy bitsy little bit of insight as to what your views for each class are in soloq, as we are moving into a solo/duo season. Currently, it is very clear that some classes perform in very different (and unintended) ways in queue as opposed to in a premade with voice coms in the highest echelons of competitive PvP. Are you planning on hotfixing the mess you have made in class disparity, and stacking? I believe that if you go into season 5 without any more “balance patches” you are setting yourself up for yet another failure.
I believe you seriously SERIOUSLY need to address the class imbalance you have yet again created. Your methods and systems need some looking at, as an example; you eliminated any and all alternatives for revenant other than invo power, as well you have turned necro into a win condition that requires an entire team to be communicating with a third party program or suffer the consequences. I believe the community should be aware of your target goals for each class, as it seems you are pushing far more into a static role and build for each (as can be seen with the addition of premade, non-custom, build templates), rather than a dynamic environment where each class has multiple competitive builds (power, condition, hybrid) and/or roles. It feels, at least to me, that I should know exactly what builds I’m going up against simply by seeing the class icon in the team window. Now I’m not totally sure if that is a good thing or not but that’s a topic for a different discussion.
Now, there were some really appropriate changes made recently as well (Druid CA cd increase) and some not so appropriate ones (Hard nerfing all Druid CA healing with stats other than menders) as examples; however, if you plan to wait and “see how things go” like you are currently doing with GW2 economy, prepare for your forums to be inundated with VALID complaints.
I’m personally not a fan of paper scissor rock balance, but if that IS the current direction, I feel we are entitled to know, since this was specifically said to not be the case.
At least the Halloween decorations look nice? Sorry, I’m just nervous about the future unknown, I’ve invested quite a lot of time and effort into this game (over 25k matches played across 2 account, reaching legend or prestige in each season, completing all pve content), and if it’s not going in a compatible direction for me I’d like to know sooner rather than later to stem the losses.