Originally Posted by
Bovinity Divinity
This is why GW2 is a bit of a fascinating study on gamers to me. Here we have a game where gear is almost meaningless, player skill is almost meaningless, class abilities are almost meaningless (DPS, Healing, Utility, etc...all pretty pointless to worry about in PvE) and the pinnacle of PvE content for most people is running CoF 1 in 6 minutes for gold. Yet somehow, people still manage to be every bit as elitist here as they are in heroic mode WoW raiding and such. =D
On-topic, class balance is actually pretty fine. Players are generally just super-elitist jerks about their CoF P1 farming runs and "4 Warrior, 1 Mesmer" is the only thing that most players seem to think is viable at all, because otherwise the CoF P1 run might take 15 seconds longer.