Guild Wars 2

Could it be possible that he isn’t arround any more for the mesmer dev.
Everything feel like strange. Well whatever.
This forum is dead, only the mod read it…. and the game director leave the game….. i guess this is it.

I THINK ROBERT GEE IS STILL THERE.

Welp, I guess we’re stalemated now. Two all caps statements with absolutely nothing to back either of them up. Anyone want to break the stalemate?

He is still around, but he has been locked in the A-net dungeon by Karl and Rubi to attone for making mesmers meta.

He’s not gone… His LinkdIn accnt is public information, you can see that his current employment is still with AreanNet.

Also, a curious snippet of his profile..

“Monitor and balance the game’s 1000+ skills, 10 professions, and countless monsters across the PvP and PvE areas of the game”

Either the bolded section is a typo, or he is working with the ‘expansion team’ on the next profession. I’m going to guess the ladder. He proved to be one of the most adept devs at delivering unique and engaging mechanics with HoT, it would be a waste of his talents to have him anywhere else.

I do feel that the current balance is in the hands of Karl alone. But maybe I’m wrong.

Regardless, it is pretty clear that the balance devs are focusing much more on the expansion than on current content. And that is a shame, because you can’t keep elite specs as the only way to fix bad design in the core specs. A-net recently said that they were trying to refocus, to stop creating new content and first try to improve currently existing one. But apparently, this does not apply to class balance.

Silverkey.2078:

I do feel that the current balance is in the hands of Karl alone. But maybe I’m wrong.

Regardless, it is pretty clear that the balance devs are focusing much more on the expansion than on current content. And that is a shame, because you can’t keep elite specs as the only way to fix bad design in the core specs. A-net recently said that they were trying to refocus, to stop creating new content and first try to improve currently existing one. But apparently, this does not apply to class balance.

Of course it doesn’t. With no true balance team and test server they probably don’t know where to start.
It’s unfortunate that we will only be able to use one elite spec at a time because those will be the only things some what balanced

Mikkel.8427:

He’s not gone… His LinkdIn accnt is public information, you can see that his current employment is still with AreanNet.

Also, a curious snippet of his profile..

“Monitor and balance the game’s 1000+ skills, 10 professions, and countless monsters across the PvP and PvE areas of the game”

Either the bolded section is a typo, or he is working with the ‘expansion team’ on the next profession. I’m going to guess the ladder. He proved to be one of the most adept devs at delivering unique and engaging mechanics with HoT, it would be a waste of his talents to have him anywhere else.

You mean gimmicks. Because both reaper and chronomancer traitlines have been terrible PvE wise, and the only reason wells were used was to stack alacrity, not because their effects were actually that good.

Reaper is even worse. Greatsword turned out to be garbage in both formats due to the ridiculous aftercasts, the reaper traitline is terrible with a sole PvP focus and little of PvE value, and Reaper shouts are among the most worthless PvE utility in game.

He buffed mesmer sword autoattack by a miserable 10%. It was 30% behind thief auto and yet they buffed thief sword auto by around 25% even though it was already 30% stronger than mesmer autoattack DPS.

Silverkey.2078:

I do feel that the current balance is in the hands of Karl alone. But maybe I’m wrong.

Roy pretty much stated in teh AMA that Karl is in charge of the balance team we don’t know how many are on the team but I would think its small. Roy is definitely not on it any more.