Guild Wars 2

We all know that you only release balance patches every 4 months or so.

Thus far, the vast majority of those patches were HUGE whacamole patches that either nerfed a certain spec to the ground, buffed another beyond reasonable sense, or missed the ball entirely and just made random changes that made no sense.

This happens because you don’t play your game!

So in a dream world we would like for you guys to actually play your game more in the live servers so you actually understand the mechanics of each class and how balance is affected.

That being said, balance patches need to be small tweaks, but more often. Again, ideally, this would be every month but for some reason you like to do it every 4 months. At the very least, you need to start release balance patches every 2 months, that way you still have the month in advance that you want to sit in internal testing and duel each other ad nauseam .

So lets put it all together…

By playing your game in the live servers, you’ll see which things are balanced and which aren’t. Once you see this, you’ll be ready to balance appropriately more often.

Oh and take a look at this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udVJUJYlwmI and please tell me why your ideals for balancing have changed so much in all the wrong ways.

The problem if they do that is that PvPers and WvWers tend to think in “seasons” of balance. Take for example a fighting game. None I know of have actually balanced characters. Ask anyone playing the game and they’ll be able to give you “tiers” of characters. And between most players, many of these are going to be very similar (example P4A: Yu and Chie top-tier, Elizabeth bottom-tier).

But, as long as this doesn’t suddenly change, everyone will go into a season or a tournament knowing this, and have plenty time beforehand to practice with the top-tier characters.

To translate this back to a MMO, if I invest the time to fully-Ascended equip my character for WvW, I don’t want it’s balance to change randomly. This is fairly evident from the current thread about Celestial-gear, too. People consider their time “thrown away” when this happens.

And I think that’s the core of the reason why they patch rarely, but then a lot. Give people time to adapt and become good and enjoy their play before it changes, instead of it changing constantly.

That being said, I would personally prefer balance changes to just go out in real time, that is, if they’re number-tweaks do them on zone switch. As soon as the Q&A cleared a change, bring it in.

It’s not just MMO, it’s also RPG and you can’t just postpone adjusting a low tier class until the end of the ‘season’

Acandis.3250:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udVJUJYlwmI

A active and visual based combat system. Ranked ladders and automated tournaments. kitten when does this game come out?