Guild Wars 2

Im putting forward that balance is not a goal, the string of utter kitten ups that are the balance patches are intentionally design to be so, the idea being that in a twisted way, the class X that you liked is intentionally rendered unplayable, as a result you are forced to look for something else to play and that keeps the illusion of the game being “fresh”.

In other words throwing a wrench into the meta, just for the sake of shaking it up, balance is not a consideration.

Balance patch was fine. Please stop fearmongering.

Crinn.7864:

Balance patch was fine. Please stop fearmongering.

This has nothing to do with fear mongering, this is actually a pretty common development technique, used among others by Blizzard and Wizards of the Coast.

Who can blame them though? Last season they made small balance changes and didn’t mess with the meta, then everyone complained about it. Now they nerf the meta builds and buff other areas, and everyone is still complaining. Trying to satisfy these players is a huge waste of time.