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maybe a first step would be “hire more staff” if it really is true that only 2 (TWO) people work on profession fixes/balances…
maybe as of now its only one left, I guess anet will not be happy about jon letting that info slip out into the community lolWell, if there are only two people fixing/balancing profession related stuff, then one of them must have added stats to elementalist weapons, while the other one did all the engineer “fixes”.
And that would mean that the only two people who balance classes do not talk to each other.
I actually managed to procure a photograph of the class balance devs when they were done with the engineer buffing…
You should check out Planetside 2… I’m enjoying it, a lot! Or maybe XCOM: Enemy Unknown, which is also an awesome game. I will wait for the next patch to check if Gw2 is playable again.
Hi Anders, I’m totally not here so skip this post and read on…
We made the improvements we had time to test. There are still more ranger improvements but when our time is limited we have to focus on things we know we can fix. Signets and shouts are still on the docket, and I suspect some of each of these will get some love in the next time around. As you can see a lot changed in this build for every profession and we have to test these changes as well.
I do still believe ranger is the profession in most need of improvement after this patch and we will continue to make those improvements. If we could fix everything at one time we would, but the reality is there are a limited # of hours to make changes.
I see a lot of talk about ranger weapons, but I don’t think that is the real problem. I think sword and longbow are both good weapons, which is why the changes take longer. The problems are deeper, in pets ability to hit moving targets, trait lines with not enough viable choices and skills that are often too specialized to really compliment the weapon builds. These aren’t things we can change overnight. The change to Greatsword block was in fact a very difficult change, but we made it because we knew it was the right thing to do.
There are >500 skills in this game, 480 traits, and 2 designers working on this. Even then often we are bottle necked by other issues. I’m not going to say we are not working on these things, nor can I say there are things we could have changed but just ran out of time on, but this was a patch that contained ranger improvements and it will not be the last one that does so. Maybe you want more than honesty but that is what I currently have to offer.
Jon
What happened to all that precious time you saved by not changing Rangers in the last patch at all? Rangers appear to have only gotten as much a tweak as anyone else with this one despite being ignored in the last patch AND you admitting they needed changes more than anyone else.
How does THAT happen? Hell, Elementalists and Engineers got much more changes.
You mean nerfs right? Read the changes on Engineers again buddy, we were boned before the patch, we are even more screwed right now… Our only viable direct damage build has been nerfed… And we didn’t even get a developer to go on our forum and apologize for the bullkitten they made up on “30-odd engineer changes”. At least you have the sympathy of one developer. We have nothing, nada, ziltch.
I got this an hour ago or so from Taru Taru in a convo in the heart of the mists.
Next time you see him, tell him to go [EXPLETIVE DELETED]… Lying is just… wrong…
Well, maybe next patch they will sort out the engineer… NOT.
Probably not Medazolam…
I won’t even bother reinstalling the game to check the new patch…