Guild Wars 2

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-November-15-2012

Not so bad for PVE, but no major improvements. For PVP, this is a swift kick in the kittens, especially when compared to the improvements for elementalists and necromancers. No equity.

Just to be fair…you need to read the patch notes for elementalists and necros a little more closely. They aren’t really getting that big of a buff (and for Eles there are a few fairly serious nerfs). As far as I can tell, no class really got a huge buff this time around

Coyote.7416:

Just to be fair…you need to read the patch notes for elementalists and necros a little more closely. They aren’t really getting that big of a buff (and for Eles there are a few fairly serious nerfs). As far as I can tell, no class really got a huge buff this time around

I’d call giving buffs to the equipped weapons created by the eles and not buffs to the only class that has hardly any buffs compared to the others a serious imbalance issue. Yeah.

Kits not only need to scale with gear but they also need buffs when equipped not spell effects (cept the two kits that do healing need an AOE heal when equipped without traiting, the healing kit doesn’t even have AOEs)

Yeah, that’s a buff, but if you know what Evasive Arcana (spelling?) does they did quite a large nerf to it, and through it to some of the major bunker builds (what many elementalists considered, before the patch, to be the only viable elementalist build…though as many have pointed out, bunker’s are problematic in their own right). Through this they changed out one of the major builds that is run by a ton of elementalists out there, something that by many was considered almost absolutely necessary to their builds. So yes, they got a bonus on their elemental weapons, which may help them…question is whether that will account for the difference in some of the builds they nerfed fairly significantly through the one specific nerf.

Not saying engineer’s don’t have their issues, but I have a problem when people go around claiming that other classes got it so much better than they do, without accounting for everything. I’d much rather be playing my engineer over my Ele almost any day of the week :-), though admittedly, I will be trying out those elemental weapon builds to see how they are doing. This wasn’t some big buff’s to ele’s though…hell, I’d say engineers picked up a few buffs that might even be more effective for more builds than the ele’s did on their side.

I may be wrong though :p