Guild Wars 2

I know you (ArenaNet team) are busy on HoT expansion and I understand the focus being placed on it, but still it feels like ages since the last balance patch. People keep complaning about things that need to be balanced (fire for example) or some classes that need to be toned down a bit (cele ele is one of them). Same goes for classes bugs that just ruins the exeprince and gameplay of them .As a ranger player I know that are alot of them and I am sure that other classes have the same issue. I was hoping the newest patch will do something about, but once again I was wrong. Again, I know the first priority is the expansion but I still thinks that patches like this are not less important.

Can you at least tell us if there will be any balance/bugs fix patch this month and if not approximately when it will be? Please?..

I’d be surprised if we see anything more than minor/emergency balance updates before HoT, which is coming sometime before the end of the year. Bug fixes will keep trickling in, but those are always sporadic.

Specializations were introduced in the 23 June 2015 update, not even two months ago. I don’t remember balance updates being more than a few times a year ago.

What’s different now (to me) is that there used to be both major and minor content updates, so it never felt that very much time had passed.

However, for reasons that made sense at the time, ANet long ago decided that they would focus nearly all resources on HoT, which means we’ll only see balance (or content) updates if those changes help the game & community prepare for HoT (which is exactly what the specialization update did).