Offensive sets are a bit of scam

[Sever1n]

Btw what gear was wearing top engi of last viable season of solo ranked? Full def + armor? But of course, such uses doesnt count. Only elitistic matches in 6man god chosens is only true source of truth in this game. So everything that exist beside this shouldnt count, and existence should be centered around it. No matter if you focused by 6dps in sc, if you smallscaling, rvr ing, play city where u know u will be target number 1. Nothing matters! Cource times when wb leads used def sets because of extra focus also dont exist, because they never heard of it.

Meanwhile in glorious 6vs6 some classes like wh/wh simply couldnt survive in chch automatically became burden to team. This issue was ilustrated in ranked discord and you know what answer was for it? Silence. All u need to know about glorious 6vs6 balance in this game. Meanwhile selfish heretic aSW with staked armor could survive double chch and be efective dps tnx to class flexibility. But here we are some glorious gods of past days can remember use of it, so everything that dont exist in theirs memory automaticaly heresy.

People from their golden 6man groups that go with full group even in toilet, dont have issues that u simple player of this game may have. Only theirs problems matter. Meanwhile all sane players that enjoy all kinds of content know the value of def gear used correctly and in rigth place.

Also people dont care that they actively promoting blobing rvr when they yell "solo doesn't" matter, because every time people wanna go smallscale they ambushed by same not existing "solobalancedoesntmatter" abusers that u can see ingame every day. And instead of spreaded rvr in interesting skirmishes we have unholy blob where balance doent matter at all, only numbers. Even if from 24vs24 man figth survives 2 people 1vs1 automatically matter. When you punted into some WE/WH face 1vs1 balance matter. Everytime you get killed on 1n1 this matters. But some elitist circle of people will never think about it cos they beyound such problems, so they dont exist.

Also they automatically deny all deviant tactics, builds, gear ingame that exist for some reason telling that u playing game wrong and being selfish not being metabot that cannot think with his own heald and evaluate efectiveness of build.

So all can thx them promoting their comfort zone playstyle, while class balance in state of constant chaos, their own 6vs6 etalone ranked is dead, and game is one big blobfest where no solo player cannot normally breathe if they are on bottom of foodchain.

Im only hope that main feedback for pathches doesn't come from such elitistic narcissistic groups of people, but WE case give bad thoughts on that regard. So guys if you your spec not in meta - reroll or suffer, welcome to RoR.

So we are not at same team and no matter how often you will be spaming your crap about sologame - all aspects of game matters, carefull use of dif instruments should be rewarded, and game shouldn't be locked in stagnation cycles because some people dont care.

[Dezibagel]

Gersy getting unhinged rants against them for being the voice of reason is sad.

The reason to point this out as a solo issue is because any newer or clueless player trawling through the forums looking for info right now is going to be met by a wall of solo QQ, blatant misinformation, very ignorant takes, and/or bad faith "buff my class/realm/whatever!!1!!1!1!" and almost nothing else.

Yes - you can run defensive sets on DPS for memes, solo, or if you're trying to play pure bait or whatever, but as a general rule (which the OP is trying to present it as, complete with a loaded and bait:y title) it's just *wrong*, and spending your hard-earned crests on defensive sets for your dps is a bad idea as it is just a quick way to get you kicked/laughed out of any real org setting, which in turn locks you out of the imho actually interesting and challenging part of the game/true endgame in organized PvP.

It's damaging and should be challenged for that reason. If the topic title was smth like "[QQ] I got killed by a regen WL while solo on my glass whatever [/QQ]" and they would drop all the superlatives of "everyone is running grimshimmer over Sov" etc. then it'd at least be a bit honest.

[gersy]

Gersy getting unhinged rants against them for being the voice of reason is sad.

you get used to it after a while. no matter how much evidence or proper reasoning you give to people they will still maintain full confidence in their ignorance of reality even when they are being demonstrated multiple times that they are wrong. it's no wonder the community and state of the game is in the place that it is now.

[Sever1n]

If u guys wanna stimulate your egos here i bid you farewell. I would tell what some people demonstrated here, but positioning as source of undisputed truth is self explainatory. No wonder the community and state of the game is in the place that it is now indeed.

[Dezibagel]

It's not about ego-stroking, it's about how the game actually works.

This kind of comparison made in OP only makes sense if you play DPS in the worst way possible - i.e. continuously facetanking every AoE and DoT possible (ofc. without considering the -50% from guard/detaunt) so you can main character spamming losta choppin into nothing or whatever, which while all too common an occurrence, is just bad gameplay and will get your group/wb stomped as you drain their resources for nothing. Or for 1v1/Solo, as pointed out, which is not a competitive setting in a game designed around group synergy.

Assuming that players have the ambition to have a positive impact for their side (and as said, they want to get in with playing with others in an organized setting, which the game is designed for and is imho by far the most fun you can have), the advice presented, and the assumptions made in OP are just bad/wrong.