Can We Change The Meta Up?
I still think the meta is going to change.
There will be less necro stacking.
Thieves got decent buffs.
They strengthened areas that counter ele in team fights pretty well IMO.
I think you will see a less stale meta this season.
Bad Elementalist
I can’t really seem to recall when it happened, but do you remember that time just after the marauder amulet was introduced — but everyone was still running berzerker. People would blow up in seconds, and it was always a battle of initiative / hitting first. There were so many people complaining on the forums, it was crazy. But personally, I had a really fun time with it.
I decided to run a CC-y zerker gadget engi with AED. I remember it as being one of the most crazy, but fun times I’ve ever had (despite people raging that pvp was “too stressful” then.)
I agree that the meta needs to be changed, especially for the pro league. I mean, you can play anything in ranked as long as you are good enough and you will do well but it does get rather boring having to see the same/similar classes in pro league games. The games themselves are really fun to watch but I would love to see warrior/thief/guardian played seriously in high level pro league game because I haven’t seen that at all (thief and guard maybe once or twice but never warrior). The pro league compositions for the second half of the season for almost all teams will probably be Mes/Rev/Ele/Druid and then anything except guardian as the 5th class. That is OK seeing as we will see pretty much every class at least once but still, the strongest classes have been the strongest since season one except maybe necro.
As for ingame ranked, even though I said anything is viable if you are good enough, the weaker classes need to be stronger because people will usually just play whatever is most powerful rather than sticking with their class and playing very well no matter how weak their class is at any given time. Warrior and thief got a decent buff and will see a bit more play in ranked but still, I feel that more needs to be done to make these classes viable in high level play.
PvE- Grolex (Warrior)
PvP rank: 20 Rating: 1864 (season 7)
Sticking to my guard for a third season. It hurts watching classes screw up horribly in combat and still be able to beat down my guard. But oh well I get over that and beat them down even harder if needed the next time.