I already proved on several threads that they do balance based on qq.Long story short and since you just came back:After PoF, the self-proclaimed "knowledgeable community" (a bunch of clueless gamers that think they know better about mesmer than mesmer mains) said "mirage is op, nerf skill/trait x and it's fine" where X is changing patch after patch, ANerf caved in to every single one of this rants, hence the nerf massacre.Meanwhile mesmer mains were saying "you should listen to mesmer community instead and nerf/change x y z, those are the problems", ANerf didn't took any main mesmer nerf suggestion.To add to that they never acknowledge a mistake and never revert those stupid nerfs. yeah I know and i've read your thread. you should have seen the whining when the game first came out and players couldn't tell the difference between clones and the real player. no body should be listened to for balance changes until they have played all the classes.