If the Forums held any sway over the devs, you'd all have Y2 Thorns and Gjallarhorns.
They work off of stats. Not always very sensibly, but never because they listened to the forums.
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Exactly. Just my opinion, but I don't think that the community (the forums) should be who decides what gets buffed/nerfed. The devs are the ones who buff and nerf things because they know things we don't and they can collect stats (surprising stats, but stats nonetheless) much more easily than we can. The reasoning may not always be spot on, but the community does not decide what gets buffed, nerfed, or changed because everybody would be totally biased and vote for the class that they prefer, not what is balanced. Example: Sometimes on the forums I see a post saying nerf strikers, strikers are op, etc. and want them nerfed to the ground. You might hear some cheering out there because, [i]screw strikers[/i], but from a balance point of view this is not great. Again, just my opinion though.