Guild Wars 2

You’d probably call me delusional, but I don’t have problems playing the elementalist, not even with staff. Took me a while to get the hang of it though.

As for the conspiracy theory on selling character slots…well, I doubt annoying your customers is the best way to sell stuff. I have a little more faith in Anet than that.

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Activities in a game are created with goals in mind. However, because these goals are often not directly communicated to players they are often misunderstood and leading to frustration from players and failure of the game. Although there are wiki and other sources that help to improve communications, there are still many misunderstanding. One example is the profession balancing cycle.

I don’t know why I should write about this. But it is obvious. There are 5 characters slots each copy of GW2 sold and there 8 professions and 5 races. It is designed so that extra slots can be sold. Elementalist was the first profession being promoted and fun to play at launch. But what good is it for the business if all the elementalists are happy and have no needs to start a new profession? Where would be all the new players coming from for low leveling zones. So Elemenalist was nerfed and the previously underpowered Warrior was over powered. This was just the started of the balancing cycle and more would come. This cycle of promoting one profession for fun and demoting another for pain will continue until either another sequel or most players have bought more slots or most players quit.

Stop lamenting about elementalist being weak and wasting time trying out different builds. Elementalist is weakened by design. Just start a new profession with a new character. The game even made it easier by giving everyone a birthday present to go to level 20 in one shot.

So if you love the game and want to help Arena Net, just start another profession, buy another character slot. Plan ahead and start the next profession as soon as it is promoted to overpower which might happen on Dec 10th. Do not expect the overpower profession to last, so play often to enjoy it. Alternatively, wait for sequel. Right before the release of the next sequel all professions would likely be in perfect balance and all cool stuffs are half off or less. And this was what happened to GW1.

In this sense the ultimate help you can give to ArenaNet is: HEY ANET, CAN YOU DELETE THE ELEMENTALIST CLASS FOREVER?

The conspiracy you are looking for is the well known perfect imbalance platform (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbnlKb8kA70), though its not designed to sell character slots in GW2 as much as gear changes (which equate to gem sales for transmutation crystals or gold). Trion is very guilty of this, as is Riot.

Arenanet is less obnoxious about it than those companies, but there really isnt any doubt that they intentionally change the meta just to drive money into their game. They have to make money somehow, and why stop at vanity items and skins? Make a new best build for a class = gear changes = gem purchases. On the bright side, this keeps the game interesting for the players too, and many of us wish we could see more of this.

How long will water/arcane be the meta? Until comparable defensive mechanics to water 15 / evasive arcana are available in other lines. December 10th doesn’t fix that, a year of being out hasnt fixed that, but hopefully it will happen. Faith that anet wants me to buy transmutation crystals for the day they buff fire/air keeps me hoping.

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Yeah I made a post about this some time back, it’s clear that classes are being toyed with in order to break builds and thus require people to buy new equipment.

I mean I’m shocked to hear that entire trait lines get re-ordered in this game! My first reaction was: won’t that break builds? Why yes, yes it will. And that is necessary or else people would stop buying gear.

It kinda sucks, though.

Where’s the proof of all of this?