Play the 5-6 Meta Skills, Or Die in Maps

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Essem wrote:
People want harder and harder content. There is a huge downside to that. The builds capable of doing all the content gets less and less and put a bigger magnifying glass on balance.

If Shaper was the end boss and the level of juice on maps was limited to scarabs. Then you can play whatever you want without it feeling bad. But that is not the case anymore.


Very nicely rounded up...good feedback. I feel this as well it got down to a few builds that can survive endgame and even then you cant make a single mistake sometimes, which is sad.
GGG thank you for all the great things you are doing. You have combined every element of all other great Rpg's and joined them together as one Diamond, that will shine Forever.

This is coming straight from the heart <3
its not that as long as you dont play any proper melee skill you should be fine
Randomizing available meta skills is still playing meta skills.
Proper balancing is the long way to go.
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mina97 wrote:
Randomizing available meta skills is still playing meta skills.
Proper balancing is the long way to go.


They have years of data that shows shifting meta is better than balacing skills.
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Aynix wrote:
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mina97 wrote:
Randomizing available meta skills is still playing meta skills.
Proper balancing is the long way to go.


They have years of data that shows shifting meta is better than balacing skills.


You would think, but even with this data from over the years, seems like GGG has no clue what they are doing...

The example was this league which was nerfed like hours from start, after "extensive testing" (<--- Which I do not know what means in GGG's team, but the extensive testers were the players).
Never invite Vorana, Last To Fall at a beer party.
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Aynix wrote:


They have years of data that shows shifting meta is better than balacing skills.


No they don't, you've been here long enough when did they ever do a patch that was actually balancing skills instead of shifting the meta.
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Phrazz wrote:
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zakalwe55 wrote:
Are you sure you want to play something after the top 6 meta skills? The number one meta skill that you are playing, righteous fire, at 14% is played 4.6x more than the #7 skill, corrupting fever, at 3%. Could be rough.


I have played this game for 10 years, and it's only the last two leagues I've ever played a META skill, mainly because these two leagues didn't offer any new skills. So yes, I'm sure. My starter has soon served its purpose, so now I'm ready to theory craft, invest, build and play something else :)


9 Characters 5 out of 9 are meta builds in the last 3 leagues, and Frost Blades use to be very good and well known to do excellent with investment. Your only true black sheep build is your double strike build.
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Vendetta wrote:
What is it with people, and other people's choices...

Who cares if they copy paste a build ? Why do you care ?




I think you misunderstand. This is not criticizing players who choose to follow the meta.

It is saying the game would be a lot more fun if it were more viable to create and play something non-meta and not hit a hard wall in content.

(Because someone will say it, yes with multiple mirrors worth of gear, any skill is theoretically possible to clear most content with, but thats just basically credit card swiping the game.)
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Aynix wrote:
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mina97 wrote:
Randomizing available meta skills is still playing meta skills.
Proper balancing is the long way to go.


They have years of data that shows shifting meta is better than balacing skills.

yes of course that's why the game can't reach 1/10 of its competitor's audience, stagnant for YEARS, and with calls that die faster and faster, with more and more dominance of less and less items, skills and accents... This league had 50% of the players using the same skill or the totem variant of this skill, now it's even diluted a little but still the last time I saw two aces it had 45% of the total audience... This game is becoming a diablo 3 WORSE since visually it is worse, it has no cinematics and stability and poe optimization is a meme.
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trixxar wrote:
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Vendetta wrote:
What is it with people, and other people's choices...

Who cares if they copy paste a build ? Why do you care ?




I think you misunderstand. This is not criticizing players who choose to follow the meta.

It is saying the game would be a lot more fun if it were more viable to create and play something non-meta and not hit a hard wall in content.

(Because someone will say it, yes with multiple mirrors worth of gear, any skill is theoretically possible to clear most content with, but thats just basically credit card swiping the game.)


Im so sick if mindset like this.
"Oh you need multiple mirrors to make non-meta skill good".
You never tried, you probably didnt even see someone else try, you just repeat what you seen on reddit/forum.

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