TL:DR: No more “Be a FOTM Cookie Cutter Mythic Raider or Die to Gambling”
BFA serves as a lesson in that dungeon design shouldn’t mandate the existence of a FOTM spec with a Cookie Cutter build or else no invite.
The game should not be balanced around esports. It should be balanced around downing the content first, which isn’t even that appealing to begin with.
Customization in gearing and character progression should be brought to the forefront in 9.0.
Done are the days where you are locked into a build. Be whatever, be the best that you can be, and the only person you have to please is yourself.
Not this whole “Be a Mythic Raider or Die to Gambling” nonsense that was brought from maximizing content tuning to the top end players that make the game seem broken in favor of the house to those PUG’ing or even doing LFD/LFR content.
They can still do their eSports in an eLeague like they do for Arenas with premade characters. If people want to practice strats and rosters to get ready for the eLeague then fine but let everyone else play at their own pace using the class of their choice.
As long as there is a choice of some kind as far as talents, etc, there will always be a “best choice” that will result in the cookie cutter stuff. Cookie cutter specs were so prevalent in vanilla that they just built a lot of that stuff straight into the class and gave us the current talent trees.
“I want the game dumbed down so much that it doesn’t matter if I pick the worst abilities possible, and do my rotation as badly as possible, I should be able to complete the hardest content”
The game is clearly not balanced around esports.
The game is clearly not “mythic raiding or die”.
Players figure out what the cookie cutter build is. Not Blizzard.
But there will still be optimal talents that players decide are the “cookie cutter” build.
This happened in Classic. This happened in every single expansion.
Any time there is a talent that gives any dps increase, it will be valued higher. The only way to remove cookie cutter builds is to remove all choice and give everyone the same talents.
There was a user on here, Wilkycat, who plays Feral Druid, an underperforming spec.
No matter what she did, she was declined constantly and even threatened/reported just for being a Feral Druid. She even “gut gud” and still got declined.
Yes. I said you were either a troll or out of touch with the game, I believe.
I stand by those statements. If you arent a troll, as you claim, you are out of touch with the game. This is seen by your statements such as “raid mythic or die”.
You really don’t understand the gamer mindset, do you?
Most player’s “beating the game” metric is to be wearing the ultimate gear, beat all the raids on hardest difficulty, etc. In order to achieve those things, people in their group need to be in the same sphere. They’re not bringing you or me to their mythic +20 to slow them down.
If you’re not spec’d and gemmed and meet specific ilvl and experience thresholds, you’re are not in their league.
That will never change - especially through some random thread on the forum written by a random nobody with zero accomplishments.
So just play the game your way, play as you want but don’t be trying to change the mindset of the general playerbase who have been gaming this way for years.