Guild Wars 2

I am not saying all elite specs are op or anything even near that. I am saying that most of them will need balancing before and after release. Considering that not every player in the pvp base will purchase HoT but many will still be dedicated pvp players I propose this. Please do not balance anything in the core specs around Elite specialization. What I mean is do not make a balance decision based on the fact that lets say scrapper has access to something that core engineer doesn’t that might be game breaking or otherwise. Do all the adjustments to scrapper and scrapper alone. Balance engineer on its own as if scrapper were nonexistent.

Now this may seem like common sense but some decision (not all) have defied it before. This separation will be key in pvp balance.

Agree 100%. For the Mesmer, it seems like a lot of fixes for core Mesmer problems went into the Chronomancer.

The other problem with balancing core professions with Elites is that future elites will need to incorporate fixes for the same problems, causing every Elite to reinvent the wheel.

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Agree 100%. For the Mesmer, it seems like a lot of fixes for core Mesmer problems went into the Chronomancer.

The other problem with balancing core professions with Elites is that future elites will need to incorporate fixes for the same problems, causing every Elite to reinvent the wheel.

This isn’t the case for a few of the elites. Druid for example really doesn’t do anything for fixing the Core Ranger.

@Kitty Unless you’re a terrible Druid which I found some players to be bad at you’re an easy target. Then there are some astonishing Druids that did quite well.

I agree there is and will be huge a balance issue. I have HoT and I purposely stayed on non beta character for PvPing as I am leveling a new ranger. HoT players do have a huge advantage over non HoT players.