Guild Wars 2

Just wondered why they just made the new classes better than the old one. It would of been easy to just make them different but nit necessarily better. So mesmer wouldnt get a 5th profession skill but could of got 4 different skills on chronomancer.

So why did they do this? Because it was terrible game design.

And it means they can never balance the game again. Hilarious. Any theories as to why this happened?

Different ideas:

• devs designed the elite specs with in mind the status of the current game. This means the new specialization often fix a problem of the class linked to its (bad) original design.
• they listened to people during the BWE. So there is much less crap in the new skills and traits than in the others (what class does not have some entire skill categories/trait lines that cannot be used because they are weak?) and they also applied the (sometimes excessive) buffs asked by the players.
• they overturned a bit to ensure good selling.

HOT was balanced around one thing: “Raids” – the new “end-game” challenging content that was added. WvW and sPvP are suffering because of it.

And that’s why, when ANet does finally do some balancing, there won’t be any big changes. Because then the raids will be TOO challenging and the PvE crowd will scream.

Because they want to suck your money and force you to buy HoT. That’s literally the only reason, it’s probably the reason the game hasn’t had a balance patch to.

I have essentially quit, I was never serious but watching them make my class obsolete and try to force me into shelling out more money for a game where they don’t give a kitten about PvP makes sure I am not going to log in again.