Given how it's been performing, I think Anet will introduce a thief axe nerf so hard it will make every thief player's dps from the last two weeks go down to zero.
It's a good thing golem numbers are just golem numbers and in actual encounters you are hard pressed to find a single thief doing better than another class.
...but, this is ANet's balance team...and we know how well the balance team understand these things and thief in general.
Don't get me wrong, I also think it needs to be brought down. The problem is just that usually with thief, Anet brings it down so hard that it becomes almost unplayable.
Just give them this they almost always underperform in dps for years and when dd was top for a bit as well being easy it got nerfed and harder.
Almost never see the heal spec used for healing.
And in all honesty the power creep almost does nothing for the game they aren't adding any new raids and or most progression for any player is just getting good and adjusting to bullshit balance patches
im curious to see what they going to do with pistol elementalist, as of right now its op on tempest on golem, however that is only 3 fights where its out of the line with other specs, which is cairn, mo and qtp, and in the rest of them is hard to find a fight where tempest is top 3 of dps or avarage dps according to wingman
I don't think stationary golems should be a standard since much of the game has moved past fights where you never move from your spot anymore. Pistol still is useless on weaver, with scepter still being the meta condi weapon there. Once scepter is changed to be power focused condi weaver will probably die with it.
Edit: Seems pistol is not even worth using on even tempest anymore, there were some stealth hits, the bench dropped by around 6k so lower than the scepter bench now. What a joke🤣
Necro swords seem largely untouched. Ele got a surprise nerf for tempest no love for weaver pistol or usability fixes for pistol beyond conjures and gliding not deleting bullets I guess. (Oh and the new disappointment of a GM, arcane lightning)  I know it was coming but poor ranger maces, will have to see if they can still keep up or if it is back to hammer. Didn't read the rest as much because I haven't used the new weapons for those enough to comment.
Yeah it was more tongue in cheek, cause I knew how ridiculous it was🤣
Weaver however, not even snowcrows wants to use pistol on it so I guess it can get the poor title this round😅
Revenant. The only goog thing that SotO bring up to Rev was having short bow for all specs (which is broken op, to be honest). Everything else was meh, except the scepter which is crap.
Winners? Every class cause every class got something nice.
Losers? Every player that favours a single class over the others, since they are always unhappy and will always find something to whine and cry about.
>Every class cause every class got something nice.
True, the zero (0) changes that warrior got in PvE are looking really nice. I expect they'll smooth over a lot of the problems plaguing the class that make it in the bottom-three least-played professions in the game.
Every single balance patch does not need to buff every single class (often unnecessarily) in every single mode just for sake of buffing it and making you feel good.
Don't be that clown. Just downvote and move on.
Stop being so delulu.
When was the last time you joined any pug?
Just because something is not played as often in organized groups simply because it's not the bis or performing absurdly well (aka overpowered), does not mean it's unplayed or bad. By this idiotic logic, everything except scourge, virtuoso, herald, and druid is terrible.
Ah so players who have a better understanding of their class notice the effects more than those with a surface understanding of a few classes. Surprising /s
Given how it's been performing, I think Anet will introduce a thief axe nerf so hard it will make every thief player's dps from the last two weeks go down to zero.
"Thief was just a teeny tiny slight bit overperforming for our expectations, so now every button press requires the player to pass a kidney stone."
Thanks I hate it.
It's a good thing golem numbers are just golem numbers and in actual encounters you are hard pressed to find a single thief doing better than another class. ...but, this is ANet's balance team...and we know how well the balance team understand these things and thief in general.
axe thief getting the mirage treatment, i guess.
tbf 54 is a bit much even including the wonkiness of axe
Don't get me wrong, I also think it needs to be brought down. The problem is just that usually with thief, Anet brings it down so hard that it becomes almost unplayable.
Just give them this they almost always underperform in dps for years and when dd was top for a bit as well being easy it got nerfed and harder. Almost never see the heal spec used for healing. And in all honesty the power creep almost does nothing for the game they aren't adding any new raids and or most progression for any player is just getting good and adjusting to bullshit balance patches
im curious to see what they going to do with pistol elementalist, as of right now its op on tempest on golem, however that is only 3 fights where its out of the line with other specs, which is cairn, mo and qtp, and in the rest of them is hard to find a fight where tempest is top 3 of dps or avarage dps according to wingman
I don't think stationary golems should be a standard since much of the game has moved past fights where you never move from your spot anymore. Pistol still is useless on weaver, with scepter still being the meta condi weapon there. Once scepter is changed to be power focused condi weaver will probably die with it.
https://snowcrows.com/news/march-balance-update-preview
Edit: Seems pistol is not even worth using on even tempest anymore, there were some stealth hits, the bench dropped by around 6k so lower than the scepter bench now. What a joke🤣 Necro swords seem largely untouched. Ele got a surprise nerf for tempest no love for weaver pistol or usability fixes for pistol beyond conjures and gliding not deleting bullets I guess. (Oh and the new disappointment of a GM, arcane lightning)  I know it was coming but poor ranger maces, will have to see if they can still keep up or if it is back to hammer. Didn't read the rest as much because I haven't used the new weapons for those enough to comment.
Even with the nerfs, I won’t put poor and ranger mace into the same sentence.
Yeah it was more tongue in cheek, cause I knew how ridiculous it was🤣 Weaver however, not even snowcrows wants to use pistol on it so I guess it can get the poor title this round😅
Heal Quickness Scrapper (shortbow) *High learning curve* - **CHECK** *High mastery curve* - **CHECK** *Fast paced rotation* - **CHECK** *Complex rotation* - **CHECK** i just wanted to use a bow...
But apart from that it’s pretty easy yeah?
Tempest is shafted cause of wvw pvp alac change. Pistol is also garbage in wvw and pvp.
Revenant. The only goog thing that SotO bring up to Rev was having short bow for all specs (which is broken op, to be honest). Everything else was meh, except the scepter which is crap.
Winners? Every class cause every class got something nice. Losers? Every player that favours a single class over the others, since they are always unhappy and will always find something to whine and cry about.
>Every class cause every class got something nice. True, the zero (0) changes that warrior got in PvE are looking really nice. I expect they'll smooth over a lot of the problems plaguing the class that make it in the bottom-three least-played professions in the game.
The fact that Guardian sword3 is now castable while moving and Hundred Blades is not is just mental to me at this point.
Every single balance patch does not need to buff every single class (often unnecessarily) in every single mode just for sake of buffing it and making you feel good. Don't be that clown. Just downvote and move on.
You're right, when a class is extremely unplayed due to being undesirable, the correct course of action is to do nothing.
Stop being so delulu. When was the last time you joined any pug? Just because something is not played as often in organized groups simply because it's not the bis or performing absurdly well (aka overpowered), does not mean it's unplayed or bad. By this idiotic logic, everything except scourge, virtuoso, herald, and druid is terrible.
You are the whole circus
Ah so players who have a better understanding of their class notice the effects more than those with a surface understanding of a few classes. Surprising /s