Orchee.4850

nice bug fixes

Please understand that although the team is called "Balance" for the purpose of player interpretation, their role is really just to make the game a bit different every now and then. They've said as much on the WvW livestream many, many times. Think of them as "Meta Mixers", rather than developers who strive to "Balance" the classes - whatever that nebulous term might mean to you. This would be true if holosmith recieved nerfs, but it doesn't get any so it remains the top class and none of the nerfs to other classes are enough to change anything.I can't speak to recent PvP/WvW metas, but I know that it doesn't really seem like a 'meta mixer' when, like you said, nothing changes significantly. It's hassle for everyone for almost no reason. Some changes were great (shatter, shades), most were miniscule.

Please understand that although the team is called "Balance" for the purpose of player interpretation, their role is really just to make the game a bit different every now and then. They've said as much on the WvW livestream many, many times. Think of them as "Meta Mixers", rather than developers who strive to "Balance" the classes - whatever that nebulous term might mean to you. Yes, this is more than fair. I just dislike their reasoning. Keep things WvW or PvP specific, and give better reasons for nerfs (40k benchmark for Weaver is x% higher than y, so we are reducing the complexity of the rotation and damage, or the ideal benchmark is 35k so we are moving it more inline with xyz class). That's all I'd really want. I enjoy meta mixers, but they should be considering rotation complexity. I think that's the only thing that upsets me about not giving good reasons (and I can't even do a Weaver rotation perfectly).

You are nerfing one of the (if not, the) hardest rotations to perform correctly in the entire game, because...? It performs well at Raids? Do you guys (@ANet) understand how few Condi Weavers actually participate in Raids? Those who have mastered the rotation shouldn't be punished. If Condi Weave was 10-20% higher than the next best condi build (or even the meta for most raid bosses, lmao), I wouldn't complain, but DD literally presses 5 buttons and gets the -5% DPS less as a power build.This is really dissapointing. Not only because you needlessly nerfed an Open World build, but because there is SO MUCH NOTHING in this patch. Stop toying with random things and pretending you're balancing the game.And because others are more eloquent than myself, here are some thoughts from others that I agree with: