I posted my post then saw your edited post then I saw your repost.
Why should a player with a lower M+ Score be awarded a prestigious title?
Itâs like putting an asterisk against the New England Patriots/football because they played in a historically uncompetitive conference. Sure, playing meta specs is going to have higher scores overall, but that shouldnât detract from the fact theyâre still competing against literally every other great team.
(If Iâm misunderstanding something, I apologize. Eyes havent adjusted yet)
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youâre not understanding my post.
itâs cool though 
You need to take the time to actually consider the play experience if this were the case. Asking for your friends to carry your boomie, arcane mage, feral Druid, or Ret pally because nobody wants to play with you so you need to run in a premade and get carried by the meta and getting a title even though youâre running keys 3 levels below what your friends normally play. Itâs just weird. Itâs such a weird meta game. People think splits in raids are weird and degenerate, but the game devolving into boosting off-meta specs is next level weird.
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My time has come.
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See I dont think it would devolve to that. Thats worse case scenario. Then again I pug everything so I literally couldnt benefit from it or organize it the way you describe.
I saw my first Feral Druid out in the wild two weeks ago in a ToP. It was kind of like seeing a unicorn.
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We are dozens. Dozens.
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I think it would also combat some of the negativity surrounding specs. Some of us for rp, nosatlgic, or time reasons are married to a spec. That doesnt mean we are bad just because we mathematically cant beat out a lock or dk. If we cant get proper balancing let us compete against our actual peers. I dont know about you guys but I also hate it when itâs clear someone rerolled a class just because its meta and are god awful at it, dragging the rest of us down.
Iâve found that the hardest part about playing a âbadâ spec is getting into groups. Once youâre actually there and people can see you in action, the community perception actually ironically works in your favor to a degree.
You see, the community tends to know which specs are âbadâ but they also tend to overestimate just how bad âbadâ is. So once you get into a group and remind them that Feral can indeed pull over 20k on large trash pulls then they get more impressed than they would have otherwise.
When I first made my character, it was right after finishing a WCIII run and I enjoyed the thematics behind the Night Elf Druids. Now itâs my main because itâs my favorite play style - I like energy classes and I like snapshotting. Iâm also fairly competitive in the sense that I like being able to put forth the best game that I can. So I intend to do that regardless of what spec I am.
As a result, I play a halfway decent Feral if I do say so myself and while I mostly stick to guild runs due to how difficult it is to secure group invites, youâd be surprised how often at the end of a PuG run people comment about how impressed they were with me and how they didnât think Feral could do that. Granted I think itâs mostly due to horrendously inaccurate community perception of our capabilities but itâs nice to hear all the same. Iâm not going to end up smoking one of the meta specs played by someone who knows what theyâre doing or anything, but I can usually outdamage the average FotM reroller.
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Uhm⊠thatâs less than my bear let alone a survival hunter or destro lock.
Feral Druids are fine up to like 20s/21s etc but start to lag behind when youâre pushing hard.
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A good Survival Hunter or Destro Lock. I was mostly talking about how a well-played Feral will beat an average Destro Lock. The type of Lock you typically see in the 15-19 range.
The high teens space is the space I play in most frequently, largely because I donât enjoy dungeons that much. My point was less that Feral is an amazing dungeon class and more that the community is unusually surprised when they manage to clear reasonable bars like 20k. For some reason when they hear that Feral is garbage, they expect it to be garbage.
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At my absolute maximum i can push out 16kish overall. Then a destro lock or survival hunter comes and laughs in my face. Hell some bear tanks can get near that depending on the week. Feels bad man.
I had a priest feeding my bear pi the other day while doing huge pulls with incarn/frenzy up and wearing sleeper it was glorious
Is being in the top .1% of your spec not meaningful? lol. I would say it is even more meaningful to me.
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same hereâŠi just care about being a top druidâŠi donât even look at the overall ladder or how i pair up vs rogues or warriors.
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No thanks.
Sure, but being in the top 1% of a class no one else plays is not nearly as meaningful as being in the top 1% of a wildly poplar class.
I mean, I was a top guardian Druid back in uldir, on my server at least. That doesnât mean Iâm a great player. It means no ok one else was playing guardian because it sucked.
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I mean, yeah, but the current .1% in the region isnât meaningful to me at all. Congrats, you play a meta spec! I would rather say âWow, that guy is a REALLY good Frost Death Knightâ than say âCool, that guy swapped to the more powerful class because Blizzard canât balance to save their livesâ
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It takes a lot of player skill to be able to shift with the meta. Learning a new class or spec and completely mastering it within a single season is nuts. Thatâs a god tier player.
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