they don’t post here cuz a million people, like you, would jump down their throats and draw them into unproductive heart wrenching discussions about how it’s the end of the world that they aren’t the savior you’re looking for.
also, you wanna talk forest? dont forget about the expac coming up. at this point, we need to see holosmith and how it affects our standing before we can give any reasonable feedback. it’s there, the plans for it are becoming more and more concrete, and we’re still in the dark cuz anet refuses to show us unfinished products. this is prolly the last or 2nd to last balance round before things change drastically. and anet moves glacially.
So… you’re telling me rifle will somehow be magically fixed with the next expansion? Despite the fact that it’s been woefully underpowered for years now and many people have (rightfully) pointed this out? It doesn’t take a genius to recognize that an expac won’t necessarily fix old content.
…I can’t believe you would make a forest/trees comment and link wp while saying they took 1 thing from it and not mention holosmith lol
- Holosmith is leaked information. We don’t even know if that’s the final specialization, and there’s no point on speculating about it because they’ve been so tight-lipped.
- Do you actually expect holosmith work to fix rifle issues? Or our core trait issues? Last I checked, elite specializations have their own weapon and trait lines unaffiliated with core trait lines.
- You’re also implying that power creep is a good thing with this comment. I don’t know if that was your intention.
no, it isnt ad hominem, its literally what happens. the last time a dev was around here, he asked for feedback, got more than im sure he needed because random people crawl out of the woodwork when a red post appears, couldnt really act on it because his managers told him “just do a feedback thread kitten” or something without allowing him enough time or resources for 1 class let alone the 3 he had to work on, and for the next year this forum and his thread became “whered he go” “why didnt this ever come to fruition” “engi needs more work”. the thing about anet is that they seem to have so much that they want to do that they dont have resources to also constantly overhaul small parts of the game over and over and over to satisfy endless complaints. there may not be a dev employed by them who actually has a grip on the intricacies of balancing all (or even 2) classes in a profoundly inspirational way. so they do look for feedback, but it really actually does get drowned out in kitten like “put 1 sec of burning on flamethrower 1”, “double the damage on blunderbuss”, “make turrets great again /cry”, “gyros without daze are trash give it back”, etc etc. being angry about it and toeing the line of flaming doesnt make people (devs are people too) want to read your stuff, and quite frankly you are that here, and you are that in other threads where you get all up in arms about engi being forgotten. thats not ad hominem.
i aint sayin kitten about rifle being fixed or not, itll probably remain the same as it ever was – adequate for core/pve, useless for pvp because everything else is better. and thats not because anet hates it, its because they can choose to either spend time on rifle or spend time on holosmith. tough choice i know, but someone is forcing it, be it the managers, the investors, the players, or the devs.
turrets on the other hand. turrets literally could not function without the toolbelt. now they can. why would anet bother to change such entrenched functionality if they planned to leave engi with the toolbelt forever. and there is an expansion coming soon.
those 4 sentences are all you need to say to yourself to draw a conclusion that holosmith might ditch the toolbelt. these 4 sentences are facts that have come out of anet themselves.
as we have seen, they do not bother changing things that are “viable” (but maybe not “good”) when they dont literally have to change it to keep it functioning for future plans. see rifle, explosives, grenades, elixirs H R C and toss U, and anything else that is outdated by elite specs (especially in settings where the things were once meta, such as grenades and 3-4 kit engi in pvp) or anything else across the entire game that functions passably but gets complained about for not being good enough.
secondly, there literally is an expansion coming on the next release cycle after living world episode 6. it may happen on a bit more extended timeline than the normal release cadence. but it is happening.
you dont need leaked info here. knowing the likely name of the spec and its likely weapon and trait icons based on screenshots from an nda’d client is interesting but tangential.
as for the power creep comment, no i do not support power creep. if you feel the need to flip through my extensive post history, youll find that since HoT i have bemoaned the new reality that practically excludes non-elite specs and i did not complain about the multiple rounds of hard nerfs that scrapper has received, contrary to the threads those posts are in. and for now, i recommend waiting for the expac (or preview) to see where holosmith will stand, because current balancing is quite obviously being done with that in mind and will undoubtedly still leave core specs in the dust despite our sorrow and anger. things change. adapt. its the nature of games like this.
head here to discuss wvw without fear of infractions