I’ll rate them as well from op to need buff in my opinion:
1. Elementalist – having extra 10 skills, very stong (maybe too strong utility like mist) they are too versatile. High healing, aoe, movement cc… something has to be toned down.
2. Guardian – I put them number 2 simply because pvp revolv around holding position, and many guardian skills seems to be made just to do that. You need lots of time to take down guardian, and by the time u doing that hes backup coming to clean you up.
3. Thief – I’d say toning down their dmg would do the job. Many people complaining they are dropping people too fast, and I have to agree.
4. Mesmer – I think mesmers are actually fine. There are 2 skills that should be removed or reworked for spvp, portal and time warp. Other then those 2 obviously op skills, I think mesmers are most fun class to fight against.
5. Necro – I have to say this is what I believe is balanced class. They have weaknesses, they have their strong points and overall balanced out.
6. Ranger – Hard to say, because on every decent ranger, I’ve run into 10 people who had no idea what they’re doing. I’d say improving their pet skills would probably balance them out.
7/8. Warrior/Engineer – In my opinion warrior is too simple, too predictable. Where they gave for example extra 10 skills to ele, extra 3 passive + skill to guardian, well they gave 2 extra crappy skills to warriors. Adrenalin skills are just so weak compared to other class utility, evisc is one example of decent one. But then again just imagine guardian sharing block to whole team with 1 button. I guess they wanted to compensate because warrior have huge chunk of hp, which melt down like paper anyways.
Engineer is kind of enigma to me still. Didn’t have trouble against them on any of my toons, there were some decent ones I fought against, but overall I think they should be improved.
Btw I’m rank 23, with over 100 games in tpvp, not too much experienced but this is what i feel about balance.
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