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But I’m sure I’m not alone when I say that it should really not take you over a month to come out with the amount of fixes and balance changes that you inevitably did.
“It shouldn’t take you over a month?” You know this how?
Sorry, I’m as annoyed as the lack of changes as many people are here, but this statement…this “it shouldn’t take you that long to make changes!” attitude annoys me even more.
I’m a programmer. Often, when I talk to my boss who isn’t as familiar with programs, he mentions things like “Hey, can you implement this new feature? It’s pretty simple. Shouldn’t take too long right?” And the answer is almost always no. He doesn’t know the process that goes into the design, creation, implementation, and testing of code. So what he thinks is very simple, in reality can be very difficult to implement.
Same thing with these developers. These developers don’t simply go “Oh, rangers are underpowered, lets give shortbows a 10% damage increase.” I am pretty certain they have to debate the merits of the buff, its impact on various aspect of gameplay, discuss with programmers the possibility of implementing these changes, testing while fine-tuning the changes, etc…But the thing is, no one here knows what this process is exactly.
Since you don’t know what this process entails, please don’t make silly assumptions like “oh only 15 changes? That shouldn’t take a month to implement!”
Complain about the changes? Or the lack of? Get frustrated that the changes promised weren’t implemented? Perfectly fine. But to expect certain amount of things to be done in a certain period of time WITHOUT knowing the process behind it is…very silly.
To buff weapon damage would take less than ten minutes unless this is some kind of freakishly over complicated process. It is changing a number value. And to determine balance all you have to do is develop a baseline of survivability, damage, healing, and utility to create balance. I worked on a private RO server helping to balance the pvp and while I know there is a huge difference between RO and GW2, I also know it doesn’t take two months to fix something that is broken.
I believe AC exp is a level 35 dungeon. Run it on level 35 toons and tell me there isn’t a challenge.
If a Mesmer can spawn clones on a wall to attack enemies, why can’t a bird pet fly up there as well.
I mean, they are birds aren’t they?