From the leaks: Balance is done by people who play a few professions and have a very specific bias.

And that's just... Sad. "I didn't like X, so I buffed Y" is something an indie dev can do if he has one vision - And that will result in a very personal, maybe very cool and specific game.

This...Doesn't work at all for a game with as many players, builds, proffessions and specs as GW2 though. All things that are clearly put there to be seen as an option need to have some use. If some weapons are better at one thing but shine at another: Cool!

If some weapons are straight up nerfed cause "I don't like them", uncool. Don't do that please.