Guild Wars 2

With everyone and their mother switching to grenadier for obvious damage boosts it was no surprise to me it got hit the with nerf bat. I know Anet doesn’t like it when a certain weapon or kit out preforms most of the class’ other weapon choices.

Sarmach.1547:

With everyone and their mother switching to grenadier for obvious damage boosts it was no surprise to me it got hit the with nerf bat. I know Anet doesn’t like it when a certain weapon or kit out preforms most of the class’ other weapon choices.

It only outperformed other choices because all those other choices are riddled with bugs in the kits themselves and the associated traits.

But instead of JUST FIXING stuff they nerf the only think keeping us in groups.

“We normally try to employ metered and controlled balance changes with each pass, rather than huge reductions or improvements to classes. We want to get all classes on the same playing field, and we want to avoid “whack-a-mole” style balance. HUGH increases and HUGE decreases lead to meta instability, and thusly, we try to make multiple small tweaks rather than putting in massive changes that we have to later correct.”

I don’t see how 30% reduction cannot be viewed as a HUGE decrease. Hell, I’d be mad at a 10% decrease due to where engineers fall in terms of other classes.

Sarmach.1547:

With everyone and their mother switching to grenadier for obvious damage boosts it was no surprise to me it got hit the with nerf bat. I know Anet doesn’t like it when a certain weapon or kit out preforms most of the class’ other weapon choices.

Why isnt the backstab stealth abuse build nerfed then?
Its like 50% of the population ingame, at least in WvW.

Kontrolle.3514:

Sarmach.1547:

With everyone and their mother switching to grenadier for obvious damage boosts it was no surprise to me it got hit the with nerf bat. I know Anet doesn’t like it when a certain weapon or kit out preforms most of the class’ other weapon choices.

Why isnt the backstab stealth abuse build nerfed then?
Its like 50% of the population ingame, at least in WvW.

Because it sucks?

Ask yourself how many times you’ve actually been killed by a thief in a 1v1 and then realize that thief is one of the worst classes out there.

The only reason thieves ever manage to kill anything is because for some reason all of them seem to roam in groups of three or more and only attack when they see people by themselves. And usually they still lose.

Yeah, idk what you guys are doing but even in DPS spec, Thieves (even those who backstab) are usually no problem for me.

Unless of course you come across a good player but of course any class in the hands of someone truly skilled is a threat.

Players weren’t using the grenade kit because it was amazing… they were using it because there was nothing else.

There weren’t Thief, Elementalist, and Guardian players all jumping at the chance to go roll an Engineer for our awesome grenade spec; that’s something you just didn’t see, because the spec really wasn’t that good.

Not better than Cantrips. Not better than stealth abuse. Not better than signet stacking Warriors. They don’t seem to mind Elementalists winning 1v4 skirmishes, but god forbid the Engineer has a competitive dps spec.

-Travail.