Post#132 » Wed Jul 22, 2020 8:24 am
Ok, I get that in devs opinion, this could be very easily solved by everyone just playing meta. I get it, it's a fix that requires no work at all from their side, I'd probably recommend it too if I was in their place (very limited resources).
The thing is, saying "roll only these 6 classes of 12 if you want to do well in endgame" is not something that will ever work, or even sit well with the playerbase. Especially if the other side has more viable classes for endgame. There is a reason why there are so many of SWs, BWs, Engis and WHs and "lower tier classes"...they're iconic, fun classes that people love.
I always find it a bit grating to hear the devs saying this is a mentality issue, that the class balance is good, that not all classes need to work for all content types and that gatekeeping half of the faction population for cities is fine. For the overwhelming majority of classes in conventional specs, Sov/Warlord is the BiS, the endgame gear though. And it's locked behind cities, a content that as we just saw in the discussion is not meant to support half of the order classes per the devs, with no other way to obtain it without grinding oRvR bags for months. With only alternative (and a worse one at that) being the ranked scenario set that is well...locked behind even more of a joke content type in itself. Is it really that hard to see how ridiculous that is? Why even have 24 classes at that point? When progression for half of them is gonna end with Inv/Oppressor/PvE?
I personally could give a flying f**k about who wins or doesn't win cities, who pushes more, who has the better gear or premades. In the end it's all gonna have to work itself out naturally with Destro supporting Order more by xrealming more, otherwise they won't have anyone to fight. They'll have plenty people to farm, but I know a lot of destro players well enough to know that endlessly rolling over useless Order pugs and farming 1 star dorf all the time is not all that fun in long term. It gets old pretty quick without any sort of challenge. What I do want is that more people can trully enjoy the game like I do, to get to finish the gear progression like I did (I'm lucky enough to have started the game with a meta class and meta spec).
Raid boss Salv WP Guernios - rr83, full Sov
DPS SnB SM Valianoris - rr81, full Sov