Offensive sets are a bit of scam

[gersy]

I think the changes are fine (both to WH and WE). players must learn to adapt to the everchanging balance of the game and find new strategies with new tools they are being given instead of complaining constantly. (C) Gersy

wow. you have taken that post completely out of context and removed the first half of it. what i said there, in the first half, was in reply to a WE thread. in which the WE players were complaining about their class being dead due to losing range on puncture and RA. I was saying that WE was not dead, alluding to it being strong as a result of the patch, while mentioning buffs they received in the patch. the part you cut out was where I listed multiple reasons why WE was going to fine post-patch. turns out I was right and WE is more dominant than before, which you well recognize. so turns out we are on the same side? or not?

you just can't read and choose to blatantly misconstrue what I say for no reason, due to some weird personal vendetta. the second half about adaptation remains true, and always will. can provide you 50+ more evidences of my thoughts and opinions on the patch after it actually came out.

[Sever1n]

I listed multiple reasons why WE was going to fine post-patch. turns out I was right and WE is more dominant than before, which you well recognize. so turns out we are on the same side? or not?

So u admiting that your evaluation of WE post patch changes was "going to be fine"? Where others yelled "catastrophy inc"? U said that players should learn to stop complain and adjust to what we predicted as toxic true dmg burst stun rotation and no escape snares/jumps, that is rolling like plague ingame now? You claim that you always was rigth with your "fine". Then dont wonder why i
told u where "fine" with patch in time when others begged devs to dont make that mistake.

Atm im just annoyed with your constant "not a solo game" spam mantra in every topic that have litlle sense over it, but u act like it justify all game gaps in balance, and answers all game questions including this topic. Im sorry but this is not enough to earn personal vendetta, if u wanted it so much.

[Panzer80]

Those who go "BIS" are usually doing so within the context of a group/wb playstyle. I'm more of a solo/small man player and adore the offset gear on a lot of my characters. However, being solo/small man build in even a 6 man you start to feel the need to go respect and are worthless in a WB. None of the gear in the game is exclusive to just some players. I'm not sure what your post is really getting at other than you lost a fight.

[gersy]

I listed multiple reasons why WE was going to fine post-patch. turns out I was right and WE is more dominant than before, which you well recognize. so turns out we are on the same side? or not?

So u admiting that your evaluation of WE post patch changes was "going to be fine"? Where others yelled "catastrophy inc"? U said that players should learn to stop complain and adjust to what we predicted as toxic true dmg burst stun rotation and no escape snares/jumps, that is rolling like plague ingame now? You claim that you always was rigth with your "fine". Then dont wonder why i
told u where "fine" with patch in time when others begged devs to dont make that mistake.

Atm im just annoyed with your constant "not a solo game" spam mantra in every topic that have litlle sense over it, but u act like it justify all game gaps in balance, and answers all game questions including this topic. Im sorry but this is not enough to earn personal vendetta, if u wanted it so much.

we can agree to disagree then. i've no problem with solo players, nor you. only with those people who write in public channels constantly making complaints which do not match how the game is designed from the ground up.

[Pesteavino]

Even if its true that this is not a solo Game , if people ask and asks again and again to balance It for solo Game why the **** cant the devs change It ? Just cause Gersy says ?

80% of the people goes solo or small scale and dont like to go like a sheep running with 50 people presing aoe like no brain.
And if we do its because its the only way to lock zones or to defend ourselves agaimst blob or WE partys

[mazi761111]

Even if its true that this is not a solo Game , if people ask and asks again and again to balance It for solo Game why the **** cant the devs change It ? Just cause Gersy says ?

80% of the people goes solo or small scale and dont like to go like a sheep running with 50 people presing aoe like no brain.
And if we do its because its the only way to lock zones or to defend ourselves agaimst blob or WE partys

Because they don’t know and don’t understand

[derKleineKerl]

Its really funny when people start using numbers like 80% of all people on this server are small scall or solo players. You have any data or are you just using this numbers without any clue?

I like solo players they are a nice source of rr and crests.

Lets hope they will never balance the game around solo gameplay .

[freemik]

Dont see a problem. People used to run in def sovereign before that, when it was with absorb shields and these builds were more popular than agro-crit ones, as in the end you contributed more damage because you lived longer. Full attacking builds were only on the primed stages or when going to PVE.

[kleinbuchstabe]

Even if its true that this is not a solo Game , if people ask and asks again and again to balance It for solo Game why the **** cant the devs change It ? Just cause Gersy says ?

80% of the people goes solo or small scale and dont like to go like a sheep running with 50 people presing aoe like no brain.
And if we do its because its the only way to lock zones or to defend ourselves agaimst blob or WE partys

1. There are always the same handfull of people who complain / ask to balance the game around solo gameplay. Feels like 30% of forum content is about solo player needs / tears. Why the devs wont do it? Cause its a group game, not a solo game. That simple. If you want to play solo, do it, but dont expect any changes just to comfort your minority needs.

2. 80% of people go solo? Obviously you play a different game than eveyone else here. Maybe its 5-10% of players, and most of them are WH / WE.
Btw Smallscale is the archetype of group content. So it doesnt have any similarities with solo player needs.

3. WE parties are pretty ez to kill with a proper 2-2-2 group. maybe they will get the first kill free because of the ambush, but then they will die.
Also WE duos are pretty ez to kill with a duo of dps and tank, or dps and healer. After the big patch, i went out with a duo of WL and Kotbs to hunt this witch wave. we had great fights, most of them succesfull. I can understand why poeple are annoyed of the life reg builds, but honestly, the WE / WH problem is not that as big as many poeple make it.

[nocturnalguest]

I cant remember a single example of anyone sane running defensive gear for any kind of something resembling organised play. I was part of incredibly high amount of meme stuff, Rolgrom SW meme city warbands, TUP meme warbands, m4 bomb shaman+sh warbands (completely broken stuff), WL sniper squad, sorc machine gun exploits, 4/3 tanks 2/3 heals groups, lots of 1-3-2 6-12-18 mens of various setups, weird comps with magus/engi and other weird uncommon stuff. Nowhere in all those settings "defensive gear" on DPS was an actual option.
SW was mentioned, but nobody in their clear mind would go for defensive set on it. aSW is 6v6 thing, last i did sm+wl+asw golden combo back in 2023/2024 in a friendly matches vs team led by Evil it was working mighty fine, Fenryl on aSW wrecked absolute havoc and matches turned out to be total sweat game for regular WE+choppa. Nothing crucial has been changed for aSW for it to be any different in proper 6v6 comp. Advarka used to run sw+sl quite often too back in a day. You dont want defensive gear for rSW of anykind unless you solo/duo/trio roam but even there its better to go fully offensive and move properly. Also sure, your solo aSW is whole different story, no doubts. Where people run defensive gear on SW i wonder, solo pugging regular SCs? Thats griefing of your own team pretty much. Pug warbands? You can run anything you like there, those are pug for a reason. "It works for me, bro" kind of issue.

What else? SL/choppa - no use beside solo, BW/sorc - no use beside solo, mara/wl - no use beside solo, wh/we - no use beside solo. Engi/magus? Possible and pretty effecient to run in low organised/pug warbands being pullbot, but why do that? For organised cities engi/magus has been run in full offensive setup. Organised oRvR "kite" groups run them as fully offensive too. SW already covered, sh left. I dont know a single example where sh could pick defensive gear.

So, yeah, definitely made up delusional solo issue with totally wrong info whatever "solo gameplay is 80%+ of players population and very important for balance" bots may say.