LE Balance Committee - A serious suggestion for overall game quality

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Yes, but META builds are not strictly the best builds.

A great example is EA ballista. its an extremely popular build, its not remotely even close to the best build. Nor is Jugg RF. But both have entire webpages dedicated to how to build them. RF even has a website maintained that is basically its own wiki.

Most people I see playing this game for the first time try a druid. Why? is druid the strongest class? not really if we are talking about corruption or even arena. But there is dozens of guides and content for druid because it was recently reworked and the druid is powerful at all stages of the game. You can spec were bear as soon as you hit druid and start feeling the power of being a druid.

Paladin is the same deal, as soon as you hit paladin, you have access to holy aura which gives you tons of free stats and makes you tanky and suddenly you are already living the paladin life. You are strong at every level of the game.

Shaman does not really have anything like that, because all of its builds and combos revolve around niche idols like spined, or needing lots of spec points so you dont actually feel like a real build until later on when you have all the items/spec points.

For players that dont understand build making, Druid and paladin you cant go wrong with. Shaman will leave you struggling if you dont know what you are doing. Thats the difference.

And its not strictly a power thing, its more that shaman is all over the place and isnt able to form cohesive fantasy. Pure totem build? okay you have thorn totems and storm totem which have no synergy, different damage types, and suddenly half way through your shaman tree all the bonuses related to totems shift from buffing the totems to buffing you the player.

Shaman cant have a meta build currently because he is neither powerful nor easy to build. To have a chance you need the class to have atleast one of those features.

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Uh… lets see: META: Most Efficient Tactic Available. Far for being the biggest number generator, or the most tanky.

In an ARPG, as I said in another post, having top DPS / EHP does not make that build automatically the “best” (META) build, those are parameters to take into account, just as: mobility, quality of life/ease of use, fluidity, DPS uptime while avoiding mechanics, etc.

For sure you need enough DPS and EHP to push forward, but once you get barely enough to do the content, the other factors came into consideration.

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Yeah this is a key thing to take into account when talkinga bout best builds in arpgs, the best thing to do in an arpg is farm efficiently. The reason RF is so popular, is becuase it’s incredibly easy to farm on. That increases efficiency, that makes it a good build. The qol, and ease of use is super super high.

It’s also a similiar thing as towhy when talking about meta in a lot of competitive games, the meta is different depending on rank. Because certain things that are the meta at the highest skill level, just can’t be meta lower down the ladder, because people won’t be doing the things, that makes x meta, so y is meta between certain ranks.

Meta isn’t a set in stone thing with nothing to influence it, meta is relative to a lot of factors.

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