I just wish ArenaNet would stop considering a Sledgehammer an appropriate tool for adjusting the game balance and that they would properly test/evaluate changes before releasing them or better even talking about them.

The latter is the main issue here. It is more than obvious by now that only a tiny fraction of ArenaNet employees are actually playing/knowing their game well enough to know/predict how changes will affect their game. And since there are no public test servers, the live servers are pretty much in beta all the time.

Just look at the Scourge Yo-Yo over the last 2 months.

The meta (In my opinion) is over-tuned by quite a bit. It's fun melting world bosses and easily doing content with PUGs, but maybe we dial it back just a bit.

I am curious which of the relics will be nerfed/fixed/buffed as well, as I'm sure they are contributing quite a bit to the power-creep.

After Anet nerfed my Temporal Curtain's range because after ten years it suddenly has shown to be OP, I expect them to nerf my ability to walk to get it more in line with my ability to keep Quickness up on myself in any circumstance other than where I can cast Illusions.

Fucking retards.

11y later I'm darn sure they do meddle with professions mechanics so game wouldn't get into stale mode. Sometimes it's indeed a nerf because players took an advantage and stuff needs to be "fixed" or mechanics are broken and do need servicing, but most of the times it's just a mindless toddler-like rampant justified as "outperforming". Or straight up shitty decisions like we had with Warrior's banners.

They do break things on purpose so there would be a need for work. Dunno how this gonna work now with this faster release cycle - perhaps they finally discover to-do's and schedules. Yep, I'm salty - everyone playing this shit for 11y, seeing how this game is managed - or rather how isn't will be.

They did. Except Guardian.