Their balance team (which apparently does exist) is too busy doing 4 patches per year (a 4 times increase from 1 per year) to have time to split modes. Very busy.
Anet’s reason for not showing MMR is that people will bully those with low rating lmao. It also helps hide that there’s not enough players for it to work anyways,
Are you serious or kidding? ? No mater what anet does, we only see 5 classes used per game dude. So class poyential/traits/skills has nothing to do with what people would rather run. It all comes down to preference/ synergy.
And how do you know it’s not Anet priority?? Do you work them or have you been breached about something we aren’t supposed to know?? Finally, what do you think the patches are about?
I’d say that after three years of sparse balance patching and continued power creep it should be pretty obvious that balance isn’t a top priority. Also the fact that they don’t have a dedicated balance team on staff.
Add to that bugs being in the game since launch unaddressed, skills that have never seen serious use, weapons and traits in desperate need of rework and nothign being done about it.
Their objective is to make the maximum amount of profits for the least amount of expenditure in terms of man-hours and capitol. This is why balance is so slow and poor and why key features are still missing after 3 years. It is unlikely to change in the future, so abandon hope and embrace mediocrity.
I am guessing the original developers of the combat system moved on to better things and the people who came after were just not of the same talent.
the people who made the game understood that builds had to give up something to make the game skill based with counterplay. When they merged all the traits they just let everyone have everything. The result is a game based on spam and rotations basically. It took all the skill out of it, and that was a while ago now. I basically quit a few days after that patch. It was so stupid. Such a huge power creep.
Would an fps be fun if everyone carried round nukes and everyone also had made body armour? Nope. It would be balanced, sure. But its not good design. Look at gw2 now. Everyone has perms boons. Perma condis. Perma condi clear. Perma 6k attacks. Perma healing. There are traits which are a whole build in one trait. There was a reason alot of these traits were spread out before. If you wanted to run signets there were a few traits to take. Meditations on guardian meant a few traits. That meant builds were more focussed on a role and had weaknesses which could be exploited with skilled play.
Look at some of the traits now. They are insane . They are about 4 traits combined. This is madness. That is why the game is dead. People play pvp for pve rewards. That is all.
There are about 20 dudes probably not talented enough to suceed at real esports games who will exploit the fact anet is giving away a bit of money for their dead game. There is no skill i this game. Its all based on comp, has been for 18 montns. And on spamking rotations on a point.
Its dead. The trait merge patch ensured of that. Power creep killed it
The ele sceptre ‘fixes’ did nothing, as usual. Oh and they listening to absolutely ZERO feedback from the players.
It’s rather unbelievable, is it not? Every single ele player keeps saying that scepter needs sustained damage buffs, preferably through autoattacks.
And what do they do? Almost the complete opposite. And their insane obsession with Shatterstone, a skill that was basically dead on arrival, is borderline creepy.
Hey watch you say about Anet’s balancing team! If you say that YOU DONT THINK THEY DID A GOOD JOB a moderator will come and ban you. Just happened on my main account XD
Anet literally does not have a dedicated balance team.
Nah. I’m pretty sure they just pick random skills and say that’s too strong we’d better get rid of that! Followed by even more nerfing all while having a grand ole party. I don’t think it bothers them that no one wants to play warrior in PvP, or Mesmer now, etc
No, I’m serious they actually do not have a dedicated balance team on staff. As far as I’m aware balancing efforts are done by anyone available.
And if that’s a case they have major issues that need solving. Otherwise there will never be any semblance of balance
Ye, but that costs more than getting Tom the unpaid intern to write some changes last minute and call it balance (note: I don’t know if the intern is actually named Tom).
So what you’re saying is they should balance classes around roles and weaknesses inherent to the class while making small changes every few weeks to keep a realtive state of balance?
Sounds like crazy talk to me. Time to bust out the power creep.
The ele sceptre ‘fixes’ did nothing, as usual. Oh and they listening to absolutely ZERO feedback from the players.
It’s rather unbelievable, is it not? Every single ele player keeps saying that scepter needs sustained damage buffs, preferably through autoattacks.
And what do they do? Almost the complete opposite. And their insane obsession with Shatterstone, a skill that was basically dead on arrival, is borderline creepy.
Hey watch you say about Anet’s balancing team! If you say that YOU DONT THINK THEY DID A GOOD JOB a moderator will come and ban you. Just happened on my main account XD
Anet literally does not have a dedicated balance team.
Nah. I’m pretty sure they just pick random skills and say that’s too strong we’d better get rid of that! Followed by even more nerfing all while having a grand ole party. I don’t think it bothers them that no one wants to play warrior in PvP, or Mesmer now, etc
No, I’m serious they actually do not have a dedicated balance team on staff. As far as I’m aware balancing efforts are done by anyone available.
The ele sceptre ‘fixes’ did nothing, as usual. Oh and they listening to absolutely ZERO feedback from the players.
It’s rather unbelievable, is it not? Every single ele player keeps saying that scepter needs sustained damage buffs, preferably through autoattacks.
And what do they do? Almost the complete opposite. And their insane obsession with Shatterstone, a skill that was basically dead on arrival, is borderline creepy.
Hey watch you say about Anet’s balancing team! If you say that YOU DONT THINK THEY DID A GOOD JOB a moderator will come and ban you. Just happened on my main account XD
Anet literally does not have a dedicated balance team.
Or at least do not commit to 1 patch every 4 month and instead implement small scale changes regularly.
Quite honestly, I expected a patch this size to be something done on a 2-3 week schedule, not 3 months……
Literally, the changes are so trivial in most cases, that I cant see why it would take THREE WHOLE MONTHS to come up with them……
Do they not have enough metrics? Is it is so hard to implement? Are they simply being lazy? Are they so out of touch with their own game? Do they have any experience in balancing, or are they just programmers who were shunned into this?
What is going on?!
They literally do not have a dedicated balance team.
Controversial opinion: delete stats altogether and then balance the game around the classes’ unique abilities and how well they can each fill a roll. Then the balancing might be simple enough that Anet actually bothers to do it.
Even better would be scrap the current divisions and make it so that they are instead a direct representation of your mmr. That way they would actually represent your skill as a player (given enough time and games) rather than just being the latest in a series of grind boards.
I’m rooting for either this video or maybe one of the official Pro League videos released on the official GW2 channel to break 1k views.
I mean, personally, after putting my faith in Anet and spending $60 dollars to basically purpose a ton of superficial features and a whole rack of elite specializations along with a new class that were rushed out the door to effectively break balance in the game in order to help distract me from the painful realization that I didn’t actually purchase any actual new content of much substance to use all these features and classes on, I’m really psyched to attempt to resort to watching Pro League videos to try and extract some semblance of value from my monetary investment.
Man, just all those great moments to look forward to watching in a top 5 video. Like that time that one guy almost killed that bunker before his cooldowns reset and he healed back to full health. Or that one epic moment where after ten minutes of watching two bunkers wet noodle each other on a capture point, one of them made the mistake of actually using a form of sustain or invul that prohibited capture point contribution and the point became briefly contested for like a couple seconds.
Wild stuff. Who wouldn’t be excited about this? This is going to be high quality YouTube content on a level somewhere between that video of paint drying and that other one of that guy showing how to properly change out my air conditioner filters.
Of course, the way I am writing this might seem like I am sarcastically and sardonically implying that Anet, at some point, forgot what actually constitutes a great game and screwed over everyone who bought their expansion by turning it into a boring, unbalanced, grind…..OMG ACCOUNT WIDE INVENTORY SLOTS FOR ONLY 700 GEMS EACH! LOVE LIVE GW2!
Edit: except for the part about buying the expansion. I may be an idiot but I don’t throw money into a tire fire.
Or they could just do what they promised and not make elites completely superior to vanilla builds~ But per usual it was all a lie, just like promise to reset mmr at begin of the season.
Maybe withdraw will actually get the 10% buff this time.
It would be easy to implement, but why should Anet care when they’re riding high on HoT profits and esports? (This is the answer to basically everything asked on this forum tbh).
People are seriously being banned over discussing some, at best, average movie that’s just been released?
Really? Next thing you know, Donald Trump will be elected President.
Oh.
(Pro tip: If you’ve seen A New Hope, you’ve seen this movie – JJ didn’t try very hard to disguise it, when he copied the first movie. Although Boyega is awesome, and Mr Ford still has it).
No one’s been banned yet as far as I know. People are instead asking for Anet to ban those who made them mad about this movie.
I think at this point the discussion has gotten way off topic and the responses are now ranging from childish meme’s to threats of quitting the game over this.
Gaile might I suggest it be closed and let CS decide their stance/action on this issue and just let it be done. I don’t think your going to garner any additional constructive discussion on the matter.
This topic has been a joke since the start and never deserved constructive responses. It should be locked and forgotten. Anet will have their usual response to reports for things that actually deserve attention (doing nothing) and apply it to this.
looky here then tell me for the life of me PLEASE tell me why this is has not been done yet
YES i want to know that answer !!!!!!!!!!! and i also want the answer as to why they have not said word on this topic at all and it,s not locked . ask me i think there is something
in the water today going around or maybe the lack of the water going around. in any case yes this should been locked long again like by page 3 . and i think it is clear by now they will not give us a answer on this at all!!! and if they do i will be shocked i just might give you a full bottle of good wine . !!!!
My posting was too good for them to lock the thread yet, obviously.
I think at this point the discussion has gotten way off topic and the responses are now ranging from childish meme’s to threats of quitting the game over this.
Gaile might I suggest it be closed and let CS decide their stance/action on this issue and just let it be done. I don’t think your going to garner any additional constructive discussion on the matter.
This topic has been a joke since the start and never deserved constructive responses. It should be locked and forgotten. Anet will have their usual response to reports for things that actually deserve attention (doing nothing) and apply it to this.
