How to avoid the next balance disaster

#1 - Sept. 2, 2013, 6:40 p.m.
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When you nerf sword thief, ranger, necro, all ai, stunlock warriors and elixr r (which you surely will)…..then please remember the effect this has on mesmer and ele. These classes will then not be held down by the weight of condi spam which counters them hard.

The mesmer and ele dps is way too high. Once you remove the sword thief (ele/mesmer cant win this) and necro/ranger dominance then you will have another broken and lame meta where mesmer and ele damage is way too high for all the extra things they can provide.

So when you nerf condis also nerf these classes dps.

Everybody knows this to be true who is good at the game. If you listen to people on the forums you will have another broken meta, just with different culprits.

Necro didnt need buffing ever. It was fun and balanced. Other stuff needed its condi removal being worse. Please dont repeat the same mistakes again.

#10 - Sept. 3, 2013, 12:28 a.m.
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Agreed on the shaving + making sure we don’t overdo it with big hits to the classes.

Also good points about making sure that we don’t take away the things “holding down” some of the strong builds. I think Mes and Ele are probably ok for the most part, as long as we tone down the conditions output from some classes, and bring the S/D Thief in line.

#12 - Sept. 3, 2013, 12:47 a.m.
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So wait… I heard more ranger nerfs… Could you all just please instead remove the whole class from PvP isntead? That’d be a lot faster and save a lot of time (and our sanity in PvE). Thanks

Wait til you see the update! You may be making it out in your mind to be more drastic than it really is.