Guild Wars 2

Ummmmmm i assume at this point its L2P d/d ele or leave. Also if nothing is wrong take away the class amount rule on the tournaments. If there is nothing wrong why dont you just let teams run 3-5 d/d eles in these tournaments so we know who are the best teams really are.

Gotta nerf bltc key farming though. Who cares about balance?

i dont expect fixes to to d/d ele until about 1 month after HoT (no work on balance until HoT release, then 2 weeks of bugfixing, then 2 weeks to implement balance changes). But kitten , i cant help but be hopeful every kitten tuesday. There is always that 1% chance they implemented at least a minimal fix, so i get excited, rush to patch notes, only to be disappointed

But its ok really, just keep working on expansion, good expansion is the only way to redeem for these months and months of ridiculous imbalance concerning ele. We will forgive it if HoT turns out great

I don’t see why Anet puts on a world tournament but doesn’t throw out a balance patch once a month. It’s like they want it to be an esport but refuse to put in the work.

Pollution.8703:

I don’t see why Anet puts on a world tournament but doesn’t throw out a balance patch once a month. It’s like they want it to be an esport but refuse to put in the work.

Because they are busy with more important stuff. From a time management standpoint, why waste your time pleasing an insignificant percentage of players? I mean players are going to whine about something else. So as a project manager it is probably better to focus on issues that will actually generate you money aka expansion.

Don’t expect any changes until HOT. Also the guys who work on balance are not the guy who work on the world tournament. The WTS is done mainly by marketing while balance has a very specific and important task to make the specialization $$ inducing.

I really expected a big balance change… until I saw the very good elite spec changes on monday. I personally feel that they did a much better job with balance this time than last time. I expect a lot of work has been put to get those results, and it is the only team responsible for balance so I didn’t expect them to ALSO balance the core classes.

And for this reason, I am actually not salty about it. On the contrary, those balance changes prove to me that the team is very competent at balancing. I believe this team has been in charge for only a few months (to work on elite specializations and the core specialization patch). If they remain after HoT (which I really really really hope) then I see myself dreaming of a proper balance coming for the first time since the beginning of the game.

A dreaming tyrian…

silvermember.8941:

Pollution.8703:

I don’t see why Anet puts on a world tournament but doesn’t throw out a balance patch once a month. It’s like they want it to be an esport but refuse to put in the work.

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Don’t expect any changes until HOT. Also the guys who work on balance are not the guy who work on the world tournament. The WTS is done mainly by marketing while balance has a very specific and important task to make the specialization $$ inducing.

I wish they’d drop some of the marketing guys and hire more for the balance team. If they put more work into pvp it might not be such and insignificant portion of the playerbase.

Pollution.8703:

I don’t see why Anet puts on a world tournament but doesn’t throw out a balance patch once a month. It’s like they want it to be an esport but refuse to put in the work.

They don’t it was a Chinese Investor.

They are discussing…just cross fingers.
I think saying a balance patch will take place 2 weeks after hot is a bit optimistic.
They will first see how the meta settles then discuss then maybe a patch.
I bet it will take place at the end of the year (2015)the soonest.

Worse case scenario is post HoT release then another delay will happen due to elite specs and back to every 6 months for some thoughts about balance.

Kicast.1459:

They are discussing…just cross fingers.
I think saying a balance patch will take place 2 weeks after hot is a bit optimistic.
They will first see how the meta settles then discuss then maybe a patch.
I bet it will take place at the end of the year (2015)the soonest.

not a balance patch, just a fix for ele sustain (and maybe dmg). They are aware of how broken it is and how much it hurts pvp. And nothing coming in HoT will have any impact on ele dominance at all, meta stays 4 ele balanced

im sure it will be fixed asap – 2 weeks after HoT, you cant catch all the bugs in testing and they are a priority. Then a big balance patch around the end of the year, then they start balancing frequently (every 2 weeks or so) as they announced after specialisation patch.

Having said that, next tuesday i will still get my hopes up for a surprise fix

I think I figured it out. They don’t know what “PvP” is, they refer to it as “e-sport”, so they don’t know what we’re talking about.

Stop asking for PvP balance patches, start asking them to balance e-sport.

I am truly at a loss of words. Sigil of generosity, rune of water, etc etc have cool downs on when they can work. Simply put thieves,D/D eles and mesmers have no limit to the amount of blinds they can put on you.

D/D ele is so much better then any other ele build that you dont see any other ele builds in ESL tournaments. Every team has at least 2 ele and none of them will stray away from the D/D.

Mesmers have insane amounts of condi with invisibility and im simply looking for a cd on blinds. They shouldnt be able to cast blinds every other second with invulnerability and distortion.

Thieves aswell, if you dont want to hvae everyone run cele sustain builds. You cant have thieves shadowstep,blind,daze,shadowstep hit with some stabs and shadow stab back rinse and repeat. I understand thieves have a area of effect blind skill but if i dont stand in it and they can still put endless blinds on me and go invisible what is the point?

Seriously if you dont want to remove thieves blinds what about the other 2? I didnt watch the ESL but i assume every team had at least 2 d/d eles and 1thief/1mesmer or both. Yet after months into this new patch when everyone got there hopes up for new builds all that happened was mesmers got to be a big player in the game where as before they didnt.

Engys/guardians/warriors/rangers all have to make a choice whether to be DPS/Condi (both if they want which would mean there pure glass anyways) they all have to set up strikes based on what attacks they land and the playstyle of the players around them.

D/D ele cele can do everything from dps bursts, 5-10 condi stacks of burns with 2-4 other condi,sustain, give team mates boons to the point that using another weapon set would hinder the team.

mesmers and thieves roam with nearly full bursts builds and can hide behind invisibility/blinds. People come on here and complain about rangers/warriors/guardians skills where they cant get hurt which i find hilarious being most players force you to use your ability to do so and go invisible and simply wait for it to go away. They come back knowing your a fish in a barrel. Best part yet is there is a rune which literally gives these spam blind/invisibility players another out. Yeah amazingly if you were to time everything just right and catch them better not be dps because they will go mist form and then bam. You still lose, great job on timing your opponent but he got away and all your utility skills are on cool down.

But hey anet says we dont need any changes and they want us to watch the ESL tournaments and I for one dont why when its incredible clear certain builds are far superior then others.