I’ll just be rolling a trap ranger build, that has a higher DPS than the current BM build with still good sustained healing.
Alongside that, I will running a cheese build thief that has high DPS and survival without going glass cannon, just cuz I want a break from a class that gets so little attention, and receives only detrimental updates to this point (Damage nerf from beta, Shortbow attack speed nerf, Empathic Bond Nerf, and now Pet Damage nerf).
Don’t forget the Jaguar (wich really is the only pet with very high dps) has already been nerfed atleast once or was it twice? I can’t remember they took a big burstdamage hit on bite anyway.
That too.
I’m really to the point where I feel like, from a balance standpoint where balance is centered primarily around tpvp, that with teams only being 5 man teams, there should have only been 5 different classes.
It’s a pigeonhole principle, and if there are 5 slots and 8 professions, that means that at any given time, up to three classes are going to be left out of team comps. It would have been easier just to design 5 classes, each with an obvious primary function and the ability to perform decently at secondary functions, and call a 5 man team made of each of those professions built around their primary function a balanced team. Then, based on taking more than one of a profession or the changing of a build, the team could be made offense or defense heavy.
Right now, looking at all of the professions and traits, the game is just a poor mix of a bunch of different ideas with very singular core concepts that have been stretched too thinly between too many different professions, and to make everything seem different, they added 1 almost unique quality to every class; the class mechanic. Which in reality, every class mechanic is just a mixture of other classes mechanics.
So now it’s this big clusterkitten, and the cleanup of which is not being handled well at all.
Good idea, now to convince anet to delete thieves and mesmers hmmm you pick the last one
I’ll just be rolling a trap ranger build, that has a higher DPS than the current BM build with still good sustained healing.
Alongside that, I will running a cheese build thief that has high DPS and survival without going glass cannon, just cuz I want a break from a class that gets so little attention, and receives only detrimental updates to this point (Damage nerf from beta, Shortbow attack speed nerf, Empathic Bond Nerf, and now Pet Damage nerf).
Don’t forget the Jaguar (wich really is the only pet with very high dps) has already been nerfed atleast once or was it twice? I can’t remember they took a big burstdamage hit on bite anyway.
That too.
I’m really to the point where I feel like, from a balance standpoint where balance is centered primarily around tpvp, that with teams only being 5 man teams, there should have only been 5 different classes.
It’s a pigeonhole principle, and if there are 5 slots and 8 professions, that means that at any given time, up to three classes are going to be left out of team comps. It would have been easier just to design 5 classes, each with an obvious primary function and the ability to perform decently at secondary functions, and call a 5 man team made of each of those professions built around their primary function a balanced team. Then, based on taking more than one of a profession or the changing of a build, the team could be made offense or defense heavy.
Right now, looking at all of the professions and traits, the game is just a poor mix of a bunch of different ideas with very singular core concepts that have been stretched too thinly between too many different professions, and to make everything seem different, they added 1 almost unique quality to every class; the class mechanic. Which in reality, every class mechanic is just a mixture of other classes mechanics.
So now it’s this big clusterkitten, and the cleanup of which is not being handled well at all.
Good idea, now to convince anet to delete thieves and mesmers hmmm you pick the last one
Thieves, memsers and engineers. Rangers will be unstoppable then
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Good idea, now to convince anet to delete thieves and mesmers hmmm you pick the last one
Lol well here’s my analysis from a class mechanic standpoint:
Warriors and Thieves share a similar mechanic; they both have a single button press. Warriors charges by adrenaline, in a similar manner that Necro Death Shroud accumulates, while thieves is just a simple cooldown, similar to how Toolbelt skills from Engineers and virtues from Guardians.
The only thing unique to either mechanic (Warrior or thief) is how steal interacts with the different professions in the games, meaning that to get the most desired skill possible, thieves have to prioritize targets.
Engineers and Guardians, as mentioned, have a similar UI and concept; there are additional actives available if they are needed. Guardians get passive effects while engineers choices are affected by utility selection, which is really the only different.
This UI model, and particularly, how Guardian Virtues work, are related directly to Rangers pet mechanic. Pets are like the guardians passive effects with more RNG, they are passively accomplishing something and you have a UI to actively control them. Necro pets most likely spawned from the ranger pet mechanics, while having another health bar to worry about is a direct relation to how Necro death shroud works.
Mesmers are a bit of a diverse mixture. The UI mimics Ranger, Engineer, and Guardians, but shattering is a completely unique mechanic, even though clones are probably derived from the pet mechanic (for those programmers out there, inheritance anybody?) Rangers use, albeit it has been dumbed down a bit to incorporate the use of shatters to get full use out of the clones.
Elementalists are also similarly diverse but unique. Most closely related to Necro Death shroud, each attunement is basically a weapon swap with the cooldown of a weapon swap, but compared to how Death Shroud functions, both are activating the class mechanic to bring up a new set of usable skills, although elementalists weapon selection affects what skills are on each bar.
That being said, the 5 classes with the most unique class mechanics should be the ones that stay.
-Guardians (heavy armor class, accomplishes the nice mixture of good passives and actives, elegance in simplicity),
-Thieves (medium armor class, stealth is annoying but they own it, risk/reward gameplay, has unique functions),
-Rangers(medium armor, the most elegant pet system, has the capability of doing everything the warrior can do if values are shifted around and the game is polished), -Mesmers(light armor, very unique mechanic, works well integrated into gameplay, can accomplishes a variety of different areas of offense and defense), and lastly -Elementalists(light armor, large arsenal of skills at their disposal at a time, can accomplish lots of different roles, encourages skilled gameplay to master).
That’s just my take on it.