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Originally Posted by Shadowmoon
but Izzy was two short sighted to see glyth of swiftness or cons and how it would lead to the permasin.
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Izzy no longer balancing GW1.
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Originally Posted by Shadowmoon
And who buffed sf to make it maintainable in the first place. SF was never maintainable outside of the /m before the super buff, and even then the timing had to be perfect to pull it off with cons. The buff to shadowform was for it to have the same down/up time with the old 50% deadly paradox with the unbuffed SF, but Izzy was two short sighted to see glyth of swiftness or cons and how it would lead to the permasin. And I think they saw the numbers they lost in the game with ursan being nerfed, and that is why they refuse to revert the skill to its unmaintainable form.
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For crying out loud people, whoever it was at ANet that decided on the expansion professions is to blame more than Izzy. How do you plan to balance 1,000s of extra skills with completely new functionality against a game that was designed for far fewer skills and without the newly introduced functionalities? The fact that every profession is at least *playable* for the most part is a testament to the fact that the game is balanced pretty well, considering the overwhelming amount of perfect balancing it would take to make all of the skills we have both useful and mitigated properly.
Izzy, thank you for being the scapegoat upon which the community throws its distaste for anything negative about Guild Wars while still maintaining your sanity and keeping your job.
Izzy did an alright job back during prophecies. Not perfect, there were many things that needed to be addressed that were not, or were addressed only after a long period. After Factions things just generally got worse. One out of four years is not a good tract record and when its the last three years that have been the worst, it should not be terribly surprising the attitude people have.
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Originally Posted by Konig Des Todes
More awesomeness for GW1 since Linsey is doing skill balancing for now on.
Izzy, please don't repeat Smiter's Boon in GW2. That is all. Edit: I am not saying Izzy was bad - in fact, I liked many changes that were made. But there were some decisions that, while not affecting to me, I find disappointing. |
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I was going to say something mean that would get me band off of guru again so i wont. all im gana say is why would you give someone control over a new games combat and economy when his idea of good game balance is well everything that follows http://guildwars.wikia.com/wiki/Game_updates
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Ok, first of all, I think some of you need to re-read some of the posts. I didn't see ANYONE flaming Izzy. Disagreeing, opining that he could have done better, yes. Flaming, no.
Now that that's out of the way. I agree with both sides of this argument.
On the one side, we did pay for a service more than a game, so it's not unreasonable to expect to be able to voice objection when you believe you are not getting the service you paid for.
On the other side, I don't think the nerfing, skill imbalance, and overall constant flux of combat in GW could be blamed on any person trying to balance that mess. There are OVER 1300 skills in GW, and That is why it is so unbalanced.
I don't like that everything keeps changing, and I've had skills on my bar nerfed, but I take my hat off to anyone brave enough to attempt THAT challenge!
Now that that's out of the way. I agree with both sides of this argument.
On the one side, we did pay for a service more than a game, so it's not unreasonable to expect to be able to voice objection when you believe you are not getting the service you paid for.
On the other side, I don't think the nerfing, skill imbalance, and overall constant flux of combat in GW could be blamed on any person trying to balance that mess. There are OVER 1300 skills in GW, and That is why it is so unbalanced.
I don't like that everything keeps changing, and I've had skills on my bar nerfed, but I take my hat off to anyone brave enough to attempt THAT challenge!
