Because the game is actually balanced around the meta.
If the average DPS is now 100k thanks to all the steroid and the plan to have enemies dying in minimal 5 seconds by these DPS people, it means the new average hp of the monster will have to be bumped to 500k. Now you get to alt-tab WHILE FIGHTING because these monsters now eat multiple combos to kill because you’re not part of the meta. Hoorah.
Even playing with friends, no one enjoy being the dead weight of the team.
Now when C8 rolls in, if a char has plan to use some of those tasty 100% damage steroid, that char is part of the meta now even if it has 4 other circles being picked randomly.
Actually metas are there because they’re strong with “low skill requirement”. (e.g. frost cloud)
There are non meta builds that can perform similarly or more but just takes more effort and the players have to know how to play their classes. (e.g. current swordsman?)
It never made me want to quit, it just pissed me off that my current favorite class got dumpstered. Like I said, I’ll just leave my Corsair at R7 and hopefully we’ll get news of some new hidden Swordsman class it can advance to. Surely there are a few Corsair3s in KR who can point out how ■■■■■■ they are to the devs.
TBH the whole Corsair thing has just made me really weary about going Hakkapalle which is the other class I’m really into the idea of (just the whole hybrid ranged/melee thing Corsair and Hakka share is appealing), because it could very likely end up being Hakka’s sword gimmick turns out just as useless and limiting as Corsair3’s pistol gimmick.
I already predicted R8 would have classes that made my Pyrokinochrono and Pelt/Rode OP, so I’ll just enjoy Sage and Murmillo for now. Kids think you need R8 skills to do top damage, please - psychic pressure blowing up 16 fireballs and 100k+ damage umbo blows are all you really need.
This, so much this. People are lazy and don’t like to work to achieve anything. I’m not saying all builds are viable, because obviously that’s not true in a game where you have so many combinations of builds, but at the end of the day; if you’re not enjoying casting Frost Cloud, Frost Cloud, Frost Cloud, Frost Cloud over and over ad nauseam then why do it?
META is for Shepards who love herding Sheep. It can be done many other ways, but who wants to push 3 buttons when you can push one.
My point is; Fun. I understand if you’re a min/maxer but in most communities thats the 1%.
Ausrine can be broken and doesn’t have 100% uptime. Missile Hall is still really damn strong, has way over 100% uptime (16 hits for a duration that goes over 100+ seconds with a cooldown of 30~ seconds). If there’s two Sages on a team, you can bet they’ll most likely alternate buffs.
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In any case, our meta revolves around AOE damage, which Elememes still have in spades. Just SR3 now gets the holy Retreat Shot 10 as well as Assault Fire meaning their AOE will be massive.
Also, undenounced to most, Krivis3 is going to be an absolute power player in terms of supporting things perhaps more than ever.
Given that they are clearly not done since they are still here, you seem to be mistaken.
Just because a person stopped playing a game clearly doesn’t mean they stopped caring about it, otherwise they would not be here. I haven’t played Final Fantasy 6, Super Mario 3, or Sonic the Hedgehog in decades but I still talk about them from time to time.
This paralyzing fear can really hurt the fun factor of the game a bit for some people. Especially now that people have had the reality of it happening once already with R8 obliterating a lot of the current meta, to the point where even builds that people thought were future-proof ended up not being so.
But hey, IMC doesn’t want to (or can’t) implement circle resets so whatever, I guess. More people quitting and less potential money (from circle reset purchases) for IMC, then.
