[Profession Balance: Next Steps and Preview of June 30 Balance Update]

12 hours ago, AliamRationem.5172 said:

Catalyst?  Weaver?  We're at almost 0% class representation.  What year do you suppose you'll do something about that?

This is the intended vision.

[Profession Balance: Next Steps and Preview of June 30 Balance Update]

12 hours ago, Kerose.2916 said:

Is there consideration for looking into Holosmith? It is currently overshadowed by Mech, while being forced into melee range and managing heat. It's in a similar space to Chronomancer's low damage which is confirmed for changes. I know the engi community would love this

Weaver vs Catalyst has the same issue.

[Profession Balance: Next Steps and Preview of June 30 Balance Update]

12 hours ago, Saharo Gravewind.5120 said:

Anet, why shift the game away to punish players for improving their skills? People are free to play lower skill classes that can still deliver DPS. Why punish those who practice, improve, and master their class?

They want to make this game FF14 without catgirls or cute outfits is why.

[Mechanist is currently destroying the game. Please consider adjusting it ASAP.]

Lol these devs buffed this class despite an overwhelming amount of evidence showing it needed to be nerfed.

[For the benefit of players and the game, at least half of the boons and conditions need to be removed from game itself.]

Superspeed, aegis, and stability need to be removed.

Protection / Resolution need to be nerfed to 10%.

 

[Follow up to the June 28 Balance Update Preview]

14 hours ago, Josh Davis.7865 said:

This was discussed. The simple answer is that “holding the balance changes” is not feasible from a technical standpoint.

https://docs.github.com/en/desktop/contributing-and-collaborating-using-github-desktop/managing-commits/reverting-a-commit

???

[Gem store rotation is too slow]

6 hours ago, Veprovina.4876 said:

That's very much on purpose. It's to make you impulse buy things you never would because of FOMO and anticipation. It's how they squeeze money out of people. Working as intended.

That works in games with actual new things people want constantly. This game adds gem store items at a snails pace.

[Finally justice for SA traitline]

On 6/25/2022 at 6:38 PM, Grebcol.5984 said:

Ah Kozumi the big thief hater. Your flaming becomes really boring now. For you thief would even be OP when he would be naked and trow flowers at you.

I main thief.

[Anet please do not release the balance patch.]

This is what happens when companies hire straight out of college cheap employee's who know nothing to design/balance their game. Hope the player loss is worth that cheaper dev pay!

[Perma Boon + Stacking Meta and Why I'm not willing to participate in Endgame Group Content]

Just now, Vidit.7108 said:

I don't have the luxury of time to go back to spending 30 minutes on one fractal boss without any might and fury. People have gotten older and have more going on in life, if the future of this game is take more time to fight bosses I won't be the only one to quit.

You mean when the game wasn't balanced around how much DPS you could do with every buff in the game and instead basically unbuffed?

[Perma Boon + Stacking Meta and Why I'm not willing to participate in Endgame Group Content]

6 minutes ago, Roda.7468 said:

I don't care how they do it, but the stack meta has got to go.

It won't, it's their grand vision for the game.

[Rate the June 28 patch out of 10]

The classes that were already strong are going to remain strong, while the weak classes are going to remain weak.

This was a massive waste of development time and resources. 0/10. 

Hire people who know how to play the game they're working on.

 

[Anet, Was this patch made by 9 different teams?]

2 hours ago, wraith.7243 said:

I've said it before and I've said it again, we need public test servers.

Why do you assume this fixes anything? WoW has them and things go live that were complained about three expacs ago.

[Nothing will change]

Nothing will change because the devs sit in their Discord echo chamber of the same biased players who only play boon balls instead of talking to the other 99.99% of players.

These same biased players ban or mute anyone who disagrees to ensure the echo chamber is functioning  perfectly.

[Minstrels/nomads is still in the game]

Please fix this bug,

[Perma Boon + Stacking Meta and Why I'm not willing to participate in Endgame Group Content]

37 minutes ago, AliamRationem.5172 said:

It's a shame they didn't just go trinity with this game.  The support meta is so much crappier than standard trinity gameplay.  I'd much rather have a game where you need a proper tank and healer than one where every group I join is 50%+ firebrand and mechanist.

Yeah, 100% agreed. This is just a worse trinity.

[Perma Boon + Stacking Meta and Why I'm not willing to participate in Endgame Group Content]

5 hours ago, Einsof.1457 said:

Sounds like GW2 may not be for you. Good luck out there.

 GW2 isn't for a lot of people, then. Wildstar wasn't for a lot of people either, and that games playerbase said this exact same thing. Guess what? The game shut down.

[Finally justice for SA traitline]

I'm not thanking Anet for giving thief superspeed. That's just as awful to fight against.

[Finally! Shadow Arts will be playable]

Thanks Anet for the upcoming buffs to Shadow Arts, it was underperforming in all PvP gamemodes and might now finally be playable.

[Ranked PvP can't have Teams Because of USA and R55 (Winning Should Be Inclusive)]

On 6/22/2022 at 7:31 AM, Trevor Boyer.6524 said:

At some point this this community needs to wake up and begin voicing their want to protect themselves from match manipulation.

Anet benefits from it.

[Ranked PvP can't have Teams Because of USA and R55 (Winning Should Be Inclusive)]

21 hours ago, Trevor Boyer.6524 said:

On the contrary, it would be much easier to queue dodge one Team USA if they were all allowed to join into the same group.

It would also massively significantly lower the amount of win trade games because they wouldn't need to win trade if they could all be on the same team, thus we wouldn't have 2 or 3 duos divided who are rotating a queue schedule with throws all day.

No one win trades on GW2.

[balance is awful please hire people that play multiple classes in wvw]

It's only an extreme coincidence that support scrapper carries the entire meta and is also what our game producer mains.

[Perma Stealth Thiefs - What to do?]

1 hour ago, Yunari.9065 said:

Yeah because specter can permastealth. 🙄

It can equip d/p and pick shadow arts.

[Looking for the complete truth.]

On 6/7/2022 at 1:09 PM, Crazy.6029 said:

The other thing that I was wondering about is the balance. Why isn't there a clear communication about the balance direction? Example, a lot of people do not like the overabundance of boon sharing and there are a lot of those that don't like the amount of condition application in the game, so why isn't there more communication about the direction of the balance? Just something to let players know, like, Anet says, " we love boon sharing and are happy how it is" or " we like condition damage and would even like to put more in", just something that would tell what there vision is and then it would be nice if they looked for feedback from the players too. Anyway, I just was seriously wondering and It would be absolutely awesome, if somebody from Anet would respond to this thread.

They couldn't string along a lot of people if they flat out said "We are designing the game for boonball discord gameplay".

[Perma Stealth Thiefs - What to do?]

9 hours ago, Svarty.8019 said:

This problem just gets worse and worse.

Never getting fixed.