So I watched skillbar on the ready up and was impressed by the changes to both Ranger & Engineer.
The skillbar format itself is excellent and a big improvement, delivering a lot of information in a easy to follow 5 minute burst. It also looked very professional, slick.
However, I think Anet are missing a ‘trick’ here. Why wait till all 8 classes have been covered by ready up before implementing them in game? If the Ranger/Engineer balance changes are ready to go, then put them ingame at the next update!
The advantages of this:-
1. You are currently getting a lot of posts of players bored to death by the current meta. Releasing 2 characters balance changes in a update, means your going to change the meta, 4 times in 2 months. No one will complain about a boring 4 month long meta then.
2. Releasing this way, will see 4 surges of players flocking back to GW2 to try the balance changes.
3. Number of people playing both sPvP and WvW will go up because again players will want to test there ‘new’ skils on other players.
4. Players will have 2 weeks to figure out the ‘new’ Ranger & Engineer and then the next 2 weeks figure out the 2 new classes etc…It continues skillbars method of putting the spotlight on 2 classes at a time.
Please like/comment if you want those balance changes in the next update or the one after, rather than 2 months+ from now.