Guild Wars 2

The better question is…“Will the game be more balanced as a whole than before?”

Seems to me like they only had to tweak warriors and a few overbudget builds/abilities for several professions to make things pretty balanced.

Instead, they basically did “expansion-level” changes and look to just be exchanging one problem for another. In some cases, they are fixing one thing, but breaking 2 more.

Thank goodness they listened about Perplexity runes in sPvP, but there are a ton of other things in this patch just as obvious.

Jackums.3496:

Warrior, Ele, Engi.

Thieves and Necros will be good.

Rangers will be mediocre.

Mesmers will be the new Eles.

yep agreed. mesmers will not get anything apart from long overdue bugfixes and useless not well though out gm traits. meanwhile ele war and engi will dominate….
rangers position unchanged and necro thief the usual….

Whos cares as long as necros are still the weakest class everything will be right with the gw2 universe XD

Rickster.8752:

Obsidia.5127:

Rickster.8752:

Well obviously thieves

I hope you don’t actually think that.

Conquest is a game mode which rewards mobility over everything else. Literally there is no way to stop a thief getting decaps other than with another thief. Everything on top of that is gravy

That’s hardly the case since you don’t need an ounce of mobility if you can just bunker a point like so many people do.

Elementalist ofc, they are going to be immune to everything and do tons of damage (diamond skin+stone heart+mega conjures super damage (lol) and people will just afk has soon as they see one on the enemy team

SPESHAL.9106:

The better question is…“Will the game be more balanced as a whole than before?”

Seems to me like they only had to tweak warriors and a few overbudget builds/abilities for several professions to make things pretty balanced.

Instead, they basically did “expansion-level” changes and look to just be exchanging one problem for another. In some cases, they are fixing one thing, but breaking 2 more.

Thank goodness they listened about Perplexity runes in sPvP, but there are a ton of other things in this patch just as obvious.

The main issue is going to be runes and sigils. Since they’re doing a complete overhaul and buffing them to levels that we haven’t seen before it’ll be a major shock to balance.

As it stands we only have a select few runes and sigils that have been previewed, but all of them have had their stats increased by a ton. It’s going to be quite hellish until they do a balance patch, but I guess that’s not too bad considering it’s been hellish with all these kittenty low-skill tanky builds that have dominated for a good 8-months.

If we’re lucky it’ll shift the meta to where lower skill builds aren’t prevalent. If that’s the case, no matter what classes are OP, I’ll be happy. Also, I hope that more classes than a couple have a decent build in the new meta. It sucks when one class is incredibly dominant over the others.

Rune of strenght : 45% might duration + 30% from traits 75% might duration!

Rune of Baltazar: 45% Burn duration + 30% traits + Sigil = 95% burn duration!

#Balance

Bunker mesmer

Gonna be surprised if it’s not engineer

after reading the patch notes, i can totally see necros taking the top spot now.

I’m seeing more negineers than anything else. #masterrace