[January 30 Balance Update Preview]

51 minutes ago, ShadowKatt.6740 said:

Do you want power creep? Because that's how you get power creep.

All joking aside, there's a very good reason, and you have to look long term. If everyone is at power 5 when the game launches and you see some builds over performing, some under performing, you boost a couple up to 6 and a couple down to 4, and you see how well it's going. This is how balancing works in general. But if we were to just boost everyone up  then suddenly not only did some of our builds go up to 6, a couple of them went up to power 7 as well. And the meta changes. People are using new abilities, and other builds are lagging behind. So they get boosted up to 7 as well, and the meta changes again. next balance patch some need to boost up to 8, and six months later some go up to 9.

But the CONTENT of your game hasn't changed. Everything is still tuned to a base power of 5 that you had at launch and now your players are basically double that. Think of how you can go back to core how and just melt everything effortlessly even on a new character, and then consider how much worse that might be if they didn't nerf more than they buffed. That's the reason we don't always uplift bad builds, we also have to weigh down the overly powerful builds.

this is laughable.  They legit just pick a few specs and run them into the ground every 3 or 4 months. Look at what they did the Mechanist Power build, only spec on snowcrows without a power spec because they screwed up the spec to begin with then completely buried it when they " wanted to balance" yet every other spec in the game is doing 40k + damage.  Power creep give me a break RAID damage was 25 to 30k for years  and now its 40k +.  Its been power creeped for more than 5 years.  Its what they did to cover for lack of content. 

their balance ideals are "1.1% of players might abuse this one thing lets nerf it for the other 98.9% of players" they nerf on potentials then pretend that they are looking at data.  Their not.  they are like a 14 year old girl that gets a zit.  Nobody else cares but they just stare at it till they have to screw something up. Always been their downfall.  Its why they cant retain players because they cant figure out balance. Gutting specs isn't the way.  Though you cant tell them nothing.

[January 30 Balance Update Preview]

You all already nerfed scourge into the ground by crippling their shades. spent 4 years playing that build for you to mess up the entire professions mechanic.  Wish you knew as much about balance as you think you did. only took you a year to figure out sand shades nerf ruined the spec.  but not to be outdone for idiocy  you reduce the timer to 8 seconds?  really?  AND you want to go in on transfusion?  Do none of you people actually play scourge? seems like it.

[Not enough skill buttons for mounts to assign, and shooting fireballs on skyscales is realy anoying because of it]

On 8/25/2023 at 12:41 PM, RDEF.8513 said:

Thats the problem, i dont ... i have to manualy click it, which is something you can not do during action camera mode. which is the entire reason i'm making this post, for anet to actualy have 5 buttons for skills 1,2,3,4 and 5 to assign instead of only able to assign 2 of them

im sure im late to the game.  I had the same issue.  restore defaults.  then assign the Alt bindings to what ever you want.  Leave v and c alone.  i used the alt binding for 3 and 4 for dash and descend. works fine.  now have 1-4 for pet skills