Guild Wars 2

Bhawb.7408:

I don’t think “profession devs” really existed before now. I believe the entire team worked on things because whenever we heard changes, we heard them from multiple sources (Sharp, Peters, Karl, etc.) instead of just one source. As a side note, Peters is gone so that’s another benefit to us in the balance department.

Wait, when did Peters leave? I thought only Sharp was gone.

I’m not so sure. Necro has some decent roles in sPvP, but they’re hardly OP really.

Reaper looked really potent; but I also hope the devs realize that currently a lot of tactics fighting necro revolve around pressuring them. And with reaper you play right into the hands of the bruiser playstyle who can outsustain whilst dealing good damage.

They could nerf the reaper; but then once people learn to counter we’ll have an even harder time.

Wondrouswall.7169:

Bhawb.7408:

I don’t think “profession devs” really existed before now. I believe the entire team worked on things because whenever we heard changes, we heard them from multiple sources (Sharp, Peters, Karl, etc.) instead of just one source. As a side note, Peters is gone so that’s another benefit to us in the balance department.

Wait, when did Peters leave? I thought only Sharp was gone.

His LinkedIn account says he was with Anet until June, when he transitioned over to Amazon studios as a combat designer.

Zenith.7301:

Wondrouswall.7169:

Bhawb.7408:

I don’t think “profession devs” really existed before now. I believe the entire team worked on things because whenever we heard changes, we heard them from multiple sources (Sharp, Peters, Karl, etc.) instead of just one source. As a side note, Peters is gone so that’s another benefit to us in the balance department.

Wait, when did Peters leave? I thought only Sharp was gone.

His LinkedIn account says he was with Anet until June, when he transitioned over to Amazon studios as a combat designer.

Well, now let’s think back at what changes Necro got since June… Jup, thought so : GOOD RIDDANCE.

It’s not uncommon for developers to change companies quietly, which is too bad because it’s nice to know who’s in charge of what.

For example, with ESO Maria Aliprando and Nick Konkle, one responsible for the huge champion points system and the other a combat lead designer, left the company quietly and nobody would have known if not for LinkedIn. For Wildstar, the stalker/esper class dev left as well without indication to the players until the company had to confirm it to players who dug the information up.

It sucks that with the game industry there’s not much transparency and reporting as to who’s exactly in charge of what, what his/her responsibilities were, and who replaced them and what is their professional history.

In the film industry, you got the credits, and you can look anyone up and get a good idea of who they are and what they’ve done. Not the case for the gaming industry, where you’re lucky if a dev even has a LinkedIn account let alone Twitter/Wikipedia pages and the gaming industry has no equivalent to iMDB

I don’t see necros needing a nerf in any area. They already nerfed many of our traits in preparation for reaper (chilling darkness) I see no reason to nerf us further.

I dont see a nerf gravedigger is a risk because if you dont hit its slow recharge that and daredevil can interrupt it and i seen dd interrupt the aa and add 10 sec on top of recharge