Guild Wars 2

at this point in the game we understand there’s a lot of stuff to handle. we’re fully aware balance would be far from perfect upon the june 23rd patch going live. we know this.

that being said what we don’t know is what is actually being done, if anything at all, about the multiple issues this patch has raised. there are tons of things that need clear cut rebalancing and just as many that are subtle and/or disputably in need of change. simply put, these points of balance discussion need to be addressed by developers by communicating with the player base. we need to see intelligent, well-crafted opinions, viewpoints, and suggestions given weight by being openly addressed and evaluated by the people who can actually make them happen. do you know how much grief you could save people if you just posted something detailing what balance issues, if any, you acknowledge exist and what you plan on doing about them? it honestly just sounds like common sense to me that something so easy be done to help the community.

at the end of the day, the real test of this patch wasn’t to see how many things you could change or introduce, but how fast you could make them fit together in a balanced environment; it’s been a week and we’ve yet to even see major bugs like grenadier allowing for engineers to oneshot players with 17k health, blinding dissipation blinding through evade, and taunt ignoring evade as well as invulnerability getting fixed.

you are failing the pvp community. we might not be as profitable or simple as pve players, but we at least deserve better, and we’d be more than happy to help.

I gotta echo one big thing here. I’m much more understanding when I know what is going on. Yea there’s those bugs op mentioned, but if I had some idea of why it was taking so long it’s not as bad. Just hearing a “hey the code is really wonky with taunt (just an example) and we need to do a whole lot of work, but it’s at the top of our list right now” is all I’d really need to feel better about it. There was a glimmer of hope when one person acknowledged a bunch of things they saw weren’t perfect, but then no comment by anet that I could find on big things like the engi nades.

Here’s the link to the thing I had mentioned. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Things-we-know/first
This is just a thought, but would a livestream of them talking balance or just actually going about how they balance ever be a thing? Then when changes come out, we’d be just as guilty for any glaring errors that we couldn’t alert them to in advance.

singinggecko.5736:

Here’s the link to the thing I had mentioned. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Things-we-know/first
This is just a thought, but would a livestream of them talking balance or just actually going about how they balance ever be a thing? Then when changes come out, we’d be just as guilty for any glaring errors that we couldn’t alert them to in advance.

the majority of all developer input in that thread is aimed towards pve