Guild Wars 2

Sigh, beast master traited signet rangers have always been extremely powerful duelists for God knows how long. It’s just that everybody has been riding the condi-train for rangers that nobody realized the hidden potential until now, when ArenaNet points a giant fat finger: “Hey everyone! We buffed signets and pets! Use them!”

I’ve known this because we have Vinhoney, the obnoxiously good ranger on team DTC who has been running this spec since the beginning of time. When we were active, we were beating PZ, Paradigm, JBUO, etc with this spec. And now his favorite build just got better with this patch… Sigh.

When doing the balance segment, instead of going through every class without specific questions, perhaps it’s better to ask specific class balance questions.

Because I noticed last SotG went like this:

Q: Rangers?

Devs: Oh, blah blah…blah.

Q: Necros?

Devs: Yup, blah blah..

Q: Eles?

Devs: Mmmhm, blah.

This went on for what, 30 minutes? The devs’ responses were not very informative because there were no specific class balance questions. And also, you can make this segment much shorter by going to the core of things and asking specific questions for specific classes.

Also, try to phrase your questions so that it’s not susceptible to “Yes/No” easy-out answers. For example, instead of asking, “Are we going to see changes to Warriors next patch?” (Devs will respond with “Yup” or “Nah”), you could rephrase it like “What do you think needs to be changed for Warriors? What problems does the class have?”

A good indication of whether or not the devs know what they’re doing is to make them state the problem in their own words. Have them tell us what the problem is, and what their solutions are. Also remember to challenge the devs with thought-provoking questions. Don’t let them off the hook easily. They are being paid by the hour, so really exercise their brains with challenging questions.