Reading through the patch notes was a real roller coaster of emotions for me as I have 2177 hour over the past 1722 days on my warrior and very little on any other character.
Through all of that time I have been through the ups and downs of the class in general and at no point did I find it not fun to play. With that in mind I generally don’t put a ton of stock into worrying about nerfs and buffs as up until this point I have yet to be really bothered by any of them.
The changes on the 16th however have really put me at odds with continuing to play my character the way I had previously enjoyed. It just seems like there had to be a way to decrease the power of some abilities without making them feel like I am in the middle of a Stonemist Castle fight 3 years ago. Now, I know these changes aren’t going to be reversed and much of the outcry about them can only hope to affect future changes.
That said, I want to stress the fact that balance and fun need to go hand in hand. If balancing something makes no one want to use it, perhaps it should be balanced in a different way.
Also… PTR… Maybe?
Not affiliated with ArenaNet or NCSOFT. No support is provided.
All assets, page layout, visual style belong to ArenaNet and are used solely to replicate the original design and preserve the original look and feel.
Contact /u/e-scrape-artist on reddit if you encounter a bug.