Guild Wars 2

So, since the devs hardly ever answer anything or give away anything on the forums and all the recent patches havent changed anything about the elementalist in any significant way to improve upon the class and bringing it closer to its designated playstyle and role. I feel there is a need to keep your community in the loop about upcoming changes, what you are looking at as issues and what you consider balanced and in working order.

Just make a sticky “Work in Progress” and fill in up with stuff that is currently in the process of implementing, other stuff that isnt working well with the professions playstyle and is up for changes in the future, and also what you devs think is the problem with the profession as of now and how you will solve the problem in the future. Ofcourse you cannot put any details in such a post since it will cause whine among the community when they see an upcoming change they do not like, which will be the case many of times. Instead use terms as “Optimization of trait trees” or “Modifications of damage and casttime” etc.

So, why would this be needed? Well, i am not aware of how you devs make your patches and how you implement changes from “oh, this is wrong” to having it in a patch. But in any case the very low feedback on what we players feel are the problems with the elementalist is very unnerving and makes you wonder if anything positive is in the workings or if you devs even see this from our point of view when it comes to making the game as fun, smooth and exciting as possible. Also this would eliminate alot of threads that are all about issues you might already be adressing and working on, and it would also serve as a platform for players input in one single tread.

It sure would ease my mind…

im gonna quote myself from another thread here

madatom.5218:

elementalist is going to be very underpowered for a very long time, developers in anything hate admitting they have done wrong and often will leave issues unchanged even if it comes to a cost for themselves

the fact is, arenanet said they wont do “kneejerk” fixes or changes, yet the elementalist bwe2 to bwe3 nerfs where exactly that, a panicked change in an attempt to bring the class inline with others despite still having so many issues

arenanet basically has to admit the bwe2 to bwe3 elementalist nerfs where kneejerk changes which is contradictory to what they said in one of there blog posts

Well, the game is really new still and this is certainly the time for kneejerk fixes to see the results. Never say never applies to everything in this world, and saying we will never do this ultimately leads to a position where it should be done but since they said never it wont happen.

Get off your high horse arenanet, we all know you have created a unique wonderful game which has the potential to be a pasttime for years to come but unless you admit its bugged, has problems, needs changes and doesnt hold back on changing things you wont get there.

For instance trying to balance PvP in this early stage of the game while professions arent even working as intended is just plain stupid. Also there is no way to balance a games PvP where fights still are determined by bugs and flaws in the game, fix those first then make the classes play as intended. When that is finished all the basic framework will be done and all that is left is tweaking of damage and such to implement balace in PvP.