Guild Wars 2

I wonder, because this doesn’t make sense:

“Grenade” skill now does 30% less damage to balance against using sigils.

Even if you used things like the Superior Sigil of Bloodlust and got a stack of 25, which doesn’t happen too often in WvW or sPvP (which apparently is the reason for this nerf?), the bonus to damage is still small compared to a a change like that, so it can’t be called “balancing” against sigils.

Penguin.5197:

On a related note though is it just me or did grenade range get longer?

No, but the effect of the “Grenadier” trait also affects Grenade Barrage now.

oceansofmars.6894:

Hire more staff.

Fixed.

Y U NO FIX MORTARS ANET??!?!?

Eleazyair.5716:

Jon Peters made this statement in the Ranger forums.

“We made the improvements we had time to test.
[…]
There are >500 skills in this game, 480 traits, and 2 designers working on this.”

Jon Peters generally doesn’t seem to be the one to blame. He’s probably trying as good as humanly possible with the manpower he has, and as a thanks he is surrounded by kitten (<-lol, nice censoring btw ;p) storms now.
ANET however badly needs to hire more game designers if this is indeed the problem behind the unsatisfactory changes/fixes.
Or at least take a break and don’t promote and put out patches this frequently if you obviously don’t have the manpower to deliver something being worth called a patch.
I’d rather have a decent patch every two months, rather than a monthly change of bandages.