Can we please get a statement about the current class design and balance? Since Blizzard is doing a big unpruning in the upcoming xpac it would be nice to have something similar in this game as well. I don't want to sound rude but you did repeat the exact same mistakes which WoW did regarding class design.
The recent patch is a complete disappointment for me because there have been almost no balance changes. All you did was nerfing healing across the board and buffing impen. Did that help? Not at all, I'd even say it's worse than before. Buffing impen is a direct nerf to every burst class and nerfing healing is an indirect nerf for the classes which already had weak healing. Like how was healing on a (stam) sorc or nightblade even an issue? It wasn't, it's stamden and stamcro which have absurd overhealing and they still have overhealing.
This leads me to the next point. It feels outrageous and disgusting how you take away working and cool toolkits from the vanilla classes (nightblade literally lost everything) or refuse to put any work into them (stamsorc for example is extremely lackluster, stamdk got stonefist which is far too expensive and ranged while they're asking for stamwhip since years, Mark Target is too weak and no good Nightblade uses Ambush, why add vuln to this awful skill?) while giving the paywall classes everything. Just looks at all the buffs which Warden has for example, they took them away from other classes on purpose. Or Necro. Both of the new classes have a purge mechanic in their kit which was templars identity. Stamden is overloaded with mending and minor buffs and stamcro has the strongest major buffs in the game (permauptime on defile on an undodgeable AoE which hits harder than Dizzy when you took defile away from everyone) and major protection on demand. Stamden is already overperforming and stamcro is even on top of stamden, I've never seen such an overpowered class in the game.
I don't know, I have all classes in the game but I only enjoy playing the vanilla classes. The moment when you started pruning my main class and decided to leave it in the dust for over a year was the moment at which the game died for me. Give us a statement please because the current class design is further away from being fine than it was years ago.
I used to think that PvP was a tragedy, but now I realize, it's a comedy.