I’m not a teacher so go visit one, we all know you need it.
meta doesn’t need to exist. It isn’t necessary outside of world first. You can achieve all of the “blizzard defined” difficulty-reward levels without adhering to a meta. The game is designed for that to be possible.
Meta has always existed, I’m not sure if you think Blizzard can stamp out a meta but even soon Fall Guys will have a meta.
It’s in every genre, every game type.
Blizz is going to do what they do regardless… so I don’t care for keeping up your thread up.
For someone who doesn’t care you sure are helping me keep it top of the forum, many thanks.
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Reposting this here to showcase what is wrong with the hard to swap route and why pulling the ripcord would be a benefit rather than a loss.
A key thing with going down the permanent choice route where it is hard to swap can also create problems even from the stance of your choice being meaningful and excelling at a certain area.
For example as a warlock nearly every covenant covers an area of power.
Venthyr : AoE
Kyrian : ST
Necrolord : Execute
Night Fae : Cleave / Durability
These abilities obviously are different in their own way and cover the basis of that meaningful choice. However, the problem is if Blizzard wants to balance these abilities to be within 1-2% of each other then wouldn’t that remove the meaning of each one?
Basically on a single target boss if each ability does a certain dmg number with the single target one coming out on top is that good design for it to be within 1-2% or have it be higher and make the abilities truly matter.
I’d rather these abilities be extremely powerful in their own scenarios 10-20% better and truly be meaningful. The goal of blizzard is to make each be within 5% in theory.
Going down a route that allows easier swap allows these abilities to truly excel in the content they were intended for instead of balancing them all to be pretty meaningless and bland. Also if there is an outlier that is truly out of line and is nerfed a week after release then the playerbase can freely swap to the next best option for the content they are doing and not feel terrible having to regrind a different covenant because the ability got nuked. A good example of this type of system was present in legion artifacts early on and it caused immense frustration among players who went for X spec for weeks just to have it be destroyed and be worse than the other options when the player wants to perform to his/her best in the scenario in which those talents and spec perform well in.
Anyway I’d rather they just have the abilities truly excel at what they are intended for rather than to make them all basically the same and bland which seems to be the goal when you go down the hard to swap / balancing route. Free swap allows them to excel far beyond others while huge restrictions causes anyone who doesn’t have the abilities feel bad and call for nerfs to it versus being able to play it themselves and have that avenue be available.
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Yes, that is why I say it’s something I don’t care about… or are you that daft…
I know it exists. I am saying that the people that try to enforce it should be shunned and mocked. let people play what they want. If you want to be “meta” go ahead that is your choice. Stop trying to exclude the player that wants to play something that isn’t defined as meta.
So long as they meet the necessary requirements to complete the content that is good enough. They don’t need to be the most optimal.
Unless the Meta Class would never taker Night Fae because there’s a better Covenant for them?
More interaction on the things Blizzard wants to talk about. They seem to have gone radio silent about Covenants.
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Of course people are free to play what they want, people are also free to decline you to take a DPS class/covenant combo that does 10% more damage in a form of content.
You’re in your right to mock them just as they can mock you for picking a covenant for fun instead of for power.
What exactly do you think is going on here? Seriously, I would like to know.
Created a thread to pop off WoW being handled in an incredibly better way.
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No, I’m expressing my dislike of locking the system. I’m not flipping out about it, so stop putting words in my mouth.
What’s taking so long @Blizzard, this system is bad and a monkey would know it is bad
Open it up! #PullTheRipcord
People will never be happy with anything, will they?
On the contrary my friend, I’d be happy if they #PullTheRipcord before 9.3
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I’ll be happy with an unlocked system! Either free, easy swaps or unlocking power from cosmetics!
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People would be ecstatic if they unlocked covenants, killed the AoE cap, and reverted all the GCD nonsense.
Shadowlands would be unreal if that happened
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#PullTheRipcord
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