Wanting to pick up a spec or a class you haven’t played awhile and then looking at logs and realizing that spec is currently terrible. I won’t deny it, I’m a meta slave I find no appeal in playing something that makes me do more effort for less of a reward compared to other players. Just a bad feeling to have to pass up on something I wanted to pick up for awhile because it lost the number raffle this patch.
That’s no excuse, I main feral and even when it’s terrible which it usually is on these meta tier lists, I often destroy meta chasers on the DPS meters since I actually know how to play my spec.
I’ll keep saying it, someone who mains a meh spec is in most cases better than 95% of the meta chasers and it shows so play what you want unless you’re pushing top 1% content it honestly doesn’t matter what class you use.
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I’ve identified your problem.
Oh good, so you already know.
That’s 100% on you, chief. There is literally no possibility of the game being perfectly balanced, ever. There will always be a mathematical “best” spec or playstyle, and it’ll probably continue to change constantly, so either get over your meta slavery or accept that this feeling is on you and will continue.
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You know what I hate? The fact websites exist that defeat the whole majesty of having a large talent tree to personalize. Now people look at me funny STILL For playing the way I want to in keystones! And not the way everyone else plays!
Nearly all players don’t play at a level where spec is going to matter. It almost always boils down to a learn to play issue.
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If you do your job at the expected level of play that you’re doing content at then nobody will bat an eye.
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Being honest, they haven’t complained in some time. I’m actually doing well as of the moment. Even with the changes in the latest patch!
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I’d rather have a class that I enjoy playing than trying to play a meta class I don’t enjoy.
Fun > logs.
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Gonna need you to put a number to “terrible”. Because if something is 3-5% behind, you aren’t going to notice a single thing unless you’re playing the absolute topmost content, absolutly perfectly, under excellent conditions.
The sooner you break yourself of this the sooner you can play a video game instead of just a series of inputs/outputs as designated by a spreadsheet.
You don’t have to, though. People routinely perform better with something they enjoy as opposed to just something a chart on a website told them is technically better under the right conditions.
Players need to stop min/maxing the fun out of their own experience. There’s definitely something to be said about aiming for great performance, but nobody is going to notice a tiny percentage difference between your performance and “what it could be” under a different spec unless you’re doing cutting-edge mythic content the literal second it’s available.
unless you are literally pushing the game to its edge, the “meta” is meaningless.
you can do any pve content with any spec and class you want to run and easily be in the top 10% of the player base, if your ability to play that class/spec is there.
I am also a meta slave, so I get it. I just love my priest too much to not play her during a meta where she’s not good, other than season 1 of DF where priest was really bad so I went evoker.
I play what I want but people don’t play with me when my spec sucks in the content I want. So I get it. Playing off meta in this community sucks.
Are you saying that from an M+ perspective? Because, sure, that makes sense. I dont know how FOTM people do it in PVP.
As in your main or and alt you just want to play?
If you want to make it a new main, are you doing high M+, PVP, or Mythic raiding? If not it doesn’t matter. Learning how to play a class proficiently will take you to where you want to go in 98% of cases.
Few people are able to switch to the FOTM class and have more benefit then if they just got better at the class they are currently playing.
If you are just playing it as an alt. It literally doesn’t matter. Just play it.
If you are a really proficient player and trying to push high end content then of course this does change a bit. But it is a scaling change. A regular Mythic raiding group would not need to optimize as much as a top 100 Mythic raiding group. But Heroic and below for sure not even something you have to think about.
I suggest “checkers” even playing field and you dont have to think too much.
What are logs?
the biggest issue with this is if you do pick it up the chances of you getting the group you want goes way down, even if you run your own key you will have people leave the group because of what you are.
this is a major reason why some people say we need M+ and Raiding split from each other like pvp is from pve to be able to actually balance the specs better
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I think people would be surprised what sleeper builds exist that actually shine in certain scenarios.
All of season 1 from start to finish my resto druid was a pure haste stacking rejuv spread germinate build doing 24 keys. While every single druid in existence ran lifebloom build and I still swear by my build. (They just destroyed it now though lol).
Its definitely easier for healers to go off meta than DPS for talents though. But also season 1 I just ran haste/metamorph build on Havoc for keys and pumped as hard if not harder than the meta build, even comparing parses.
I think it’s really fun to design your own setup if you know how to build.
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