Guild Wars 2

Bhawb.7408:

I doubt its that the guy in charge of Necromancer doesn’t like Necromancer (in fact he’s the guy that was in charge of us in GW1), I think it is much more likely that he isn’t allowed to make the changes we want. For example, imagine you work for Anet as a game designer, but aren’t the lead designer. Everything you do, no matter how cool, has to go through that lead (who is Peters afaik). That means you could be begging to do all the changes that the forums ask for, and the lead can just tell you no for whatever reason, and there isn’t a thing you can do.

This is also a possibility. But he is also in charge of mesmer. And it looks like that is his personal favourite. I cant fault someone for having a class preference. Its only natural. Mesmer is my second favourite class. But because it is second i dont worry about the intricacy’s of the class in as much detail. I imagine this is a problem most of the balance team have. And when you have a lack of people with favour towards a certain class. Its only naturally the pushes of the community will get less attention.

Im sure with more inhouse popularity, better arguements and persuasion could be made to the balance team leads to allow certain changes. So the problem probably comes from both problems.

The problem is beyond bandaid fixing with an elite spec. The base class needs work aswell.

Gryph.8237:

I think we should boycott these forums, and only post in reddit or other forums. I mean, they don’t care anyways, but it would at least show them that we do. Make these forums a ghost town until they improve our class, signficantly, and no bs about it.

Somehow I don’t think this would work.

Malchior.1928:

Gryph.8237:

I think we should boycott these forums, and only post in reddit or other forums. I mean, they don’t care anyways, but it would at least show them that we do. Make these forums a ghost town until they improve our class, signficantly, and no bs about it.

Somehow I don’t think this would work.

neither do i?

spoj.9672:

Im sure with more inhouse popularity, better arguements and persuasion could be made to the balance team leads to allow certain changes. So the problem probably comes from both problems.

The problem is beyond bandaid fixing with an elite spec. The base class needs work aswell.

Do they even have a balance team? It seems that there’s 1-2 guys “balancing” when they’re not working on some other part of the game.

Also they’ve done their work on Necros, what they showed us what’s in store for HoT.

If history is anything to go by, they’re not going to make an extra effort to redesign core Necro mechanics.

Pretty sure most Necros will just move on to Revenants and be done with it anyway.

If nothing changes, and anet goes with what they have shown us, i will, without a freakin doubt, switch to revenant and shelve my necro. I know they will freakin wiff when it comes to fixing this class, and giving us a useful spec. Seriously, rev here I come, it does what I wanted the necro to do anyways, and has an interesting mechanic. I mean, kitten, i don’t have to worry about stab, i can just dodge, and get 1 stack of stability. LOL.

The proposed changes are weak, both in content and in power, and we will be left behind.

Boycotting the forums would be inneffective cause other people unaware of the situation would still visit them, organizing protests in game and spreading videos of such protests through out reddit, facebook, and w/e media you can think of can make them see that we mean business