Guild Wars 2

I feel like most of us wonder this every time we post in a profession forum.
Our balance devs have been on radio silence since early HoT, and the opinion of Necromancer shown through balance patches does not line up with the general opinion about what Necromancers want. I could brainstorm balance for this class all day; in fact, I’d love to do game balance as a future career, but I’ve never seen a balance suggestion on the Necromancer forum get implemented.

A little bit of interaction would go a long ways. Look at how not communicating with fans has completely destroyed No Man’s Sky. Guild Wars 2 is not No Man’s Sky, but communication with the people on the forums will make the forums a much better place and improve the longevity of the game.

“Message Body length must at least be 15.” but I just need 2…

they do pay attention to the forums but their goals aren’t quite the same as yours

people on the necromancer forums want a balanced necromancer with a variety of strong builds that they can play

the balance team’s primary goal is making sure each current elite spec has one viable build

so long as necros are to some degree viable, don’t expect any changes to fundamentals- at best, expect “mucking about” changes like the Spectral changes we saw not long ago

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this forum has been abandoned by the devs a long time ago. Their idea of what the necromancer is, is too different from the players view what it should be. Besides that, there is nobody who plays a necromancer actively from them. So you can of course post here all day but in the end you won´t either get answers or any other reaction without maybe getting your posts deleted if you say something somebody does not like. Waste of time and effort.

no it really doesnt matter if you post on forums or not. More than anything i would like to know what their big picture for the classes is and how they intend they interact with each other. I dont need any specifics on development.

Is the whole thing with builds and even entire classes countering each other intended?

I also want to know if skills glitching with the map or skills not working properly half the time (especially teleports) something they cant fix and have given up on?

Do they have any plans for the runes. Many of them are really useless mostly because they have unnecessarily long cooldowns for minor effects, are tied to unwanted stats and you cant tell when they are off cooldown.

Since i play rev i want to know what they plan on doing about glint, mallyx and ventari. .Every patch has been loaded with nerf after nerf when these legends have glaring problems. What is the plan there?

Ive stopped expecting to get any answers because im convinced they actually dont like developing for the game. Its pretty obvious with how slow they address issues, how they dont actually show us how they see the game and how number of devs up and left to Amazon

Why would developers comment on the forums when random people can put words in their mouths for them? Saves them a lot of time and effort.

If u poke around too much about class balances you ll get warnings from moderators and a few days blocked on forums. has happen to me. each oportunity i get on a dev post i go there and make sure CLASS BALANCE is the biggest issue in game as people complain about it for years in obvious classes like necro. If any reply happens is to say that the issue at hand is another and if you ask where is the balance team polls and post all you hear is the sound of silence.

Mikhael.2391:

If u poke around too much about class balances you ll get warnings from moderators and a few days blocked on forums. has happen to me. each oportunity i get on a dev post i go there and make sure CLASS BALANCE is the biggest issue in game as people complain about it for years in obvious classes like necro. If any reply happens is to say that the issue at hand is another and if you ask where is the balance team polls and post all you hear is the sound of silence.

Probably because you said it in such a way. I’ve never had infractions or bans because of going on about balances (of which I do a lot for necro).

I only got one post removed like a month ago because using the word “c.nc.r” my post was in full normal form. but i just have to write to google search and the forum is full with using this word which is not deleted. Where is the moderator when someone else using the same word?

Yeah, some of the devs read here. Some don’t.

The only thing it’s really good for is patch notes.

It’s also kinda of good in a therapeutic way of you get to announce your concerns, but it amounts to the same as you telling the closest wall.

My hypothesis is that they do play the classes, but the almost* all of them don’t play them beyond a very beginner level, barely even understanding how to dodge at all(this is backed up because I know people in the video game industry, and they are immensely overworked, and so don’t get time to sit down and have fun.

At that level, the classes have a completely different balance than what veterans know is the real situation.
At that level,

• Ax auto is a god. No Projectile! Instant Hit!
• OMG Rise is OP! They get all these pets! AND damage reduction!
• What! the necro has a 2nd health bar!
• Lich form makes me so powerful!
• Epidemic? Oh I use it but it never seems to do anything(so yes, it does work both ways, which is why Ele is so consistently OP, Because they don’t know what they’re doing. )

Let’s put it this way: you have better chance off encountering dev on reddit than their official forum.

We’ve all post significant amount on ANet forum for a long time, and its quite obvious that they only appear to “keep the hype alive”, in events like when there’s a major patch etc.

At least once, since everyone says that class balance is kitten and that theres no diversity. One stream where they address these two problems in detail and how they feel about it.

Why do they think necro doesnt need active defences. Why is it ok for some classes to do more damage than necro but have all the negates types in the game with escapes plus mobility. HP tanking does not work anymore unless you want to do no damage, do they know this?

Axe stops connecting when the target rolls once in the middle of its cast even though the animation is still going after the dodge. Do the devs know this?

Why do they allow thieves to counter revs at similar skill level but when rev countered thieves they rained nerfs down on it without buffing the things that needed buffs.

What do they want to do about PvP? When Blizzard changed Overwatch’s PvP system, they released a video explaining the change and why. Considering the disaster that was the league system, maybe they should say something now and read the impressions before investing into another broken system.

When i see how much more visually and mechanically advanced gw2 is compared to other MMOs it is unfortunate to me how these guys could royally f*** up.