Except the flying and shit, I am aware and that sucks
I swear the forum is populated by people who either enjoy pvp or outright ignore it outside of munera. This isn’t a rant on renown and deckhands but vetex fucked up big time when he made deckhands correlate with renown and renown correlate with pvp.
Let’s take a trip back to 1.12. (Time Machine noises)
Slow magic mages were dominant, let’s be honest, because someone on the balance team coughs mimhere but was that a bad thing? Hear me out, having to adapt and evolve to a meta with massive attacks that melt your hp isn’t as bad as I remember it being, I just had to especially wary of mage players because god forbid they use metal or magma. This actually trained me to parry because metal pulsar was really slow ngl.
^ AOE META
Moving forward, we have the crystaleg warlock era, massive AOE, big damage, slow attacks, still easy as shit to parry if you didn’t freak out at the fact that they were using crystal and iron leg (g before u take damage loser)
And now we have the present meta, the attack speed/ air stall/ mosquito / anti gravity meta. What have we learned? Parry attacks and you’ll be fine. Doing PvP at all since the game has released will tell you all you need to know to BE good. If you decided to run some off-meta build like a fire water boxing savant, I can’t feel bad for you at all. You will be at a disadvantage because ur build is mid, that DOESN’T mean people that use meta builds are brain dead and can’t aim for shit, air stall requires quite a lot of aiming, contrary to what you might think.
A good analogy is a ladder trying to reach a cookie jar, lets say the meta build is the 3 foot ladder and the mid savant is the 2.5 foot ladder, at the SAME skill level, meta will always win because it is at an advantage, but if you’re using off meta and are also shit at AO PvP (yes you) you won’t do as well (shocker) using a meta build doesn’t guarantee winning, but is better odds. That’s why the top players will use the meta and you will continue coping with your sailor fist poison warlock until you get good. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
Ye idc for any meta besides flying I don’t think even class meta will be an issue after this update flying is the only big issue, other wise I think the game is pretty balanced
Removing pvp is the worst take ever sepperating the 2 is the only option or pve players just have to go be casuals on diff game and ao just won’t be for the weak
Have you ever meta fucking bitch before stfu god damn.
Nobody cares about meta builds except for people trying to get into leaderboard by using the easiest builds to use (Warlord, Mage, Warrior, etc)
Also I hate to inform you but by the time we hit level 250 and higher. Builds ain’t gonna mean shit
And I dont mean that in a sense that it will be a braindead spamfest, I mean that by the time we hit level 250, Everyones gonna be doing the same relative ass sum of damage.
You dont NEED to use the meta, NOBODY needs to use the meta. That “meta” you like to dickride so much will eventually be changed again, and again, and again.
Just play the fucking game and pick your fucking class.
What if instead of doing that we made it so whenever you’re in the AS and you hunt a good rep player, you teleport to the island they’re on and get a temporary esp of their exact location until you find them.
Better yet, you should also ALWAYS spawn in a hidden location so that the good rep player cant detect you.
