Guild Wars 2

I have finally figured out how balance is done for GW2. All balance is based on performance in Kessex Hills . . . It makes perfect sense, I had no troubles in Kessex Hills as my reaper so clearly need no buffs.

When I rolled a Mesmer through there I had a parcel delivered, went afk for 2 min and died… and so Power mesmer needed Buffing.

I had the same experience but only in lions arch and while at the forge basically same performance as prior to patch i dnt see any issues

That would make sense, all the classes that were buffed had a DPS of around 0 in LA

You don’t run Plague Signet while standing in LA right?

It’s much simpler than that.

Once upon a time only power builds were seriously viable, because of the way conditions stacked (or rather didn’t). After many years they fixed that, but by then everyone was geared for power.

To encourage players to do the gear grind again for other builds (eg. condi), they make them OP.

Like other game developers they also cycle through all the professions hitting them with the nerf or buff stick to encourage players to do the gear grind for other armor classes / profs.

This is “balance”.