> @"Ganathar.4956" said:
> The balance team has always been the team to make elite specs. There has been no cannibalization there. However, I am nort sure if we are getting the full story yet. Their absence is still unusual, because they were capable of releasing balance patches while working on especs before the previous expansions. They may be working on more profession related stuff than just 1 set of elite specs, or perhaps they really have been working on unrelated stuff. Because of course Anet will use the systems team for other stuff. Not like balance is important or anything, right????
1) There is no game director afaik
2) Expansion is getting rushed, it was probably a very quick decision when mike z(?) dropped approximately 1 year ago