Guild Wars 2

WvW is built around PvP. It does not make sense that balance splits lump us in with PvP. Ideally, we deserve our own balance, because WvW is neglected when in comes to profession balance. However, some of the PvP only changes in this patch would have benefitted the small scale WvW experience, so it is disappointing that they have been left out of WvW.
This is part of what killed balance splits when they originally happened several years ago. Something got nerfed in PvP only (Ele). It became bottom tier in PvP, however the nerf (cleansing water) did not affect WvW eles, so naturally, people wanted what the other PvP game mode had that their’s did not. Balance splits were undone, but now we’re back at where we were and the splits still put WvW on the wrong side.
I request a poll. Ask WvW players if they want to see more attention to profession balance, and pit it against whatever else is on the to-do list. Profession balance will win, because it is the epicenter of all interactions in WvW.

Cecilia.5179:

WvW is built around PvP. It does not make sense that balance splits lump us in with PvP. Ideally, we deserve our own balance, because WvW is neglected when in comes to profession balance. However, some of the PvP only changes in this patch would have benefitted the small scale WvW experience, so it is disappointing that they have been left out of WvW.

Sorry, didn’t understand what you meant there.

Currently WvW is based on a mix of PvE and PvP scaling. Mostly sticking with PvE balance, and a few extras like PvP retaliation scaling. (iirc)

You want WvW to go full side over to PvP balance? That would likely also include the pvp-build system, or we would get stuck under another wacky PvE/PvP balance hybrid. On the positive side, we would get Rune of the Lynx.

At this stage I don’t really care, one way or another, just make it one OR the other, no half-way.

Wvw is based around pve. It would take little to make it function as a purely pve raid type encounter. The pvp is almost shoe-horned in as a secondary. Look no further than what eotm is for proof of that truth.

The pvp balance changes were done by the pvp people using some new skill split system.

The actual balance people apparently like to wait around twiddling their thumbs while their tooltip edits go through a long translation/localization process.

What needs to happen is a petition to get anyone that’s left working on WvW to try their hand at some balance with the new split system, the same way the pvp team took some initiative.