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Has there ever been any player balancing?
Rayx0r
Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 2,902
in Guild Wars
I played this game off and on since it was in its beta weekends phases, and for the life of me I never recall them ever having to do a class balance.
Does anyone know if theyve ever done any form of class balancing or even class nerfing?
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Comments
Yes
www.guildwars.com/support/gameupdates/updatearchive-index.php
Example
Sep 06
SKILL UPDATES
Assassin
* Black Lotus Strike: reduced recharge time to 20 seconds.
* Blades of Steel: reduced recharge time to 8 seconds.
* Blinding Powder: Blindness now affects target and all adjacent foes.
* Crippling Dagger: increased damage to 15..60.
* Critical Strike: decreased Energy cost to 5.
* Dark Prison: decreased recharge time to 45 seconds.
* Dash: decreased recharge time to 8 seconds.
* Death Blossom: increased damage to 20..45
* Desperate Strike: increased damage to 15..60.
* Fox Fangs: increased damage to 5..30.
* Golden Lotus Strike: increased Energy gained to 5..12
* Jungle Strike: increased damage to 10..25
* Locust's Fury: increased chance to double strike to 33%.
* Nine Tail Strike: decreased recharge time to 8 seconds.
* Repeating Strike: increased damage to 10..30.
* Scorpion Wire: decreased cast time to 1 second.
* Shadow of Haste: decreased Energy cost to 5, increased the duration to 30..60, and decreased the movement speed by 15%.
* Shadowy Burden: decreased duration to 3..15 seconds.
* Shroud of Distress: decreased recharge time to 15 seconds.
* Signet of Malice: decreased recharge time to 5 seconds, decreased casting time to .25 seconds.
* Siphon Speed: increased movement speed reduction to 33%, and this spell now has half range.
* Siphon Strength: increased duration to 5..20 seconds.
* Temple Strike: decreased recharge time to 20 seconds, and increased duration to 1..10 seconds.
* Unsuspecting Strike: increased conditional damage to 15..75.
* Way of Perfection: increased Health gained from critical hit to 10..40.
* Wild Strike: increased damage to 10..35.
Elementalist
* Mind Burn: decreased Energy cost to 5, decreased recharge time to 5 seconds.
* Mind Freeze: decreased Energy cost to 5, decreased recharge time to 8 seconds.
* Mind Shock: decreased Energy cost to 5, decreased recharge time to 8 seconds.
* Ether Prodigy: increased damage per Energy to 3.
Mesmer
* Images of Remorse: decreased Health degeneration to 1..3.
* Leech Signet: decreased recharge time to 30 seconds.
* Signet of Disruption: decreased recharge time to 20 seconds.
Monk
* Balthazar's Aura: decreased duration to 8 seconds.
* Bane Signet: decreased recharge time to 20 seconds.
* Banish: this skill now does double damage vs. summoned creatures.
* Divine Boon: increased recharge time to 10 seconds, decreased amount healed to 15..60.
* Extinguish: increased cast time to 1 second, increased recharge time to 12 seconds.
* Purge Signet: decreased cast time to 2 seconds.
* Signet of Judgment: decreased recharge time to 20 seconds.
* Zealot's Fire: increased recharge time to 45 seconds.
Necromancer
* Plague Signet: decreased recharge time to 8 seconds.
Ranger
* Broad Head Arrow: decreased Energy cost to 15.
* Equinox: decreased recharge time to 30 seconds.
* Famine: decreased recharge time to 30 seconds.
* Greater Conflagration: decreased recharge time to 30 seconds.
* Lacerate: decreased recharge time to 30 seconds.
* Savage Pounce: decreased recharge time to 10 seconds.
* Tiger's Fury/Bestial Fury: decreased the attack speed to 25%.
Ritualist
* Ancestors' Rage: decreased recharge time to 8 seconds.
* Blind Was Mingson: decreased recharge time to 15 seconds, decreased Blindness duration to 3..8.
* Bloodsong: decreased recharge time to 45 seconds, increased damage to 5..25.
* Boon of Creation: reduced Energy gained to 1..6.
* Channeled Strike: decreased recharge time to 6 seconds.
* Defiant Was Xinrae: decreased Energy cost to 15.
* Disenchantment: decreased recharge time to 45 seconds, increased damage to 5..20.
* Displacement: decreased recharge time to 45 seconds.
* Dissonance: decreased recharge time to 45 seconds, increased damage to 5..20.
* Dulled Weapon: decreased recharge time to 12 seconds.
* Essence Strike: increased damage to 15..60, increased Energy return to 1..9.
* Gaze from Beyond: decreased recharge time to 10 seconds.
* Ghostly Haste: increased spell recharge reduction to 25% faster.
* Grasping Was Kuurong: increaed damage to 15..75.
* Guided Weapon: decreased recharge time to 20 seconds.
* Life: decreased recharge time to 30 seconds.
* Mend Body and Soul: increased heal amount to 20..115.
* Pain: decreased recharge time to 30 seconds, increased damage to 5..30.
* Painful Bond: decreased recharge time to 12 seconds.
* Preservation: decreased recharge time to 30 seconds.
* Protective Was Kaolai: increased duration to 15..60 seconds.
* Recuperation: increased Energy cost to 25, decreased recharge time to 45 seconds.
* Ritual Lord: decreased Spirit recharge to 15..60%.
* Shadowsong: increased Energy cost to 15.
* Shelter: increased Energy cost to 25, increased damage taken to 75..45, decreased recharge time to 45 seconds.
* Soothing: increased Energy to 25, decreased level to 1..8.
* Spirit Burn: increased damage to 15..60, increased conditional damage to 15..45.
* Spirit Light: decreased Energy cost to 5, increased Health sacrificed to 17%.
* Spirit Light Weapon: Changed the way this skill worked to always heal for 1..10 Health per second, and an addition 1..10 Health if you are near a Spirit.
* Spirit Rift: increased damage to 25..135.
* Spirit Transfer: decreased recharge time to 5 seconds.
* Splinter Weapon: decreased recharge time to 5 seconds.
* Tranquil Was Tanasen: increased duration to 5..20.
* Union: decreased recharge time to 45 seconds.
* Vital Weapon: decreased recharge time to 12 seconds.
* Wailing Weapon: decreased recharge time to 25 seconds.
* Wanderlust: decreased recharge time to 45 seconds.
* Weapon of Quickening: increased duration to 5..25.
* Wielder's Boon: increased conditional amount healed to 15..75.
Warrior
* Bull's Strike: increased recharge time to 10 seconds.
* Dismember: decreased adrenaline to 5.
* Eviscerate: decreased damage to 1..31.
* Irresistible Blow: increased recharge time to 6 seconds, decreased damage to 5..20.
* Wary Stance: decreased recharge time to 30 seconds.
Yes they have nerfed skills and such.
ANet does skill balancing all of the time.
Yes, A-Net often does Player/skill blancing. One of their biggets changes to the game was when they nerfed Ursan Blessing which both pleased and annoyed many people. When a skill or certain build becomes too powerful in their eyes they go and decide to nerf a skill to make the build more challenging/impossible to use. There is talks that shadow form may have its entire skill revamped from base level as there are too many permaform builds at the moment.
Another thing that they have done is to seperate PvE skills from PvP skills. For example in PvE you want a quick/strong heal when you get swarmed by a large mob. On the other hand. if you are in PvP strong heals make the games last too long and become a massive tanking match until someone runs out of energy. To combat this instead of nerfing the heals in PvP and making it harder in PvE they decided to unlink the two and make it have better functionality in both circumstances.
However, they are also trying to improve some skills as they aren't used enough in PvP or PvE. One prime example is that there are now talks on buffing Hammer Mastery and Tactics for warriors.
Info about the buffing of Hammer and Tactics, and nerfing of Shadow Form from here.
actually im suprised that anyone does any damage at all anymore after all the nerfs they have done my paragon went from being a powerful lead toon to a side role toon and my mesmer went from a strong domination fighter to illusion back to domination again it may have been needed to avoid powers becoming to op but then on the other hand other toons seem to be op after the nerfs so its a back and forth thing
my cousin has a major complaint about his monk being nerfed into oblivion and making it almost unusable