1 : of course it could and it probably will invalidate our gear, etc ; but that would mean a drastic change, even though the Defiance change seems pretty big, plus they said they were reworking AI so wait and see. Who knows maybe 6 months from now people will whine about the new cleric meta.
3: Do people want to change meta fully so all gears are viable, or simply rotate it so there will be a meta, but it will not be zerker?
That’s the thing, the problem isn’t zerk or cleric or rabid, it’s not gear, it’s THE GAME.
The game is active combat with dodge, and active defense, bosses with tells that you can AVOID. The game was designed in such way that ultimately we were and are able to clear instanced pve with no defensive stats in our gear. People do it naked, for kitty’s sake.
Anyways, what I’m trying to say is that IF after the expansion the AI and everything change SO much that it will be better to have defensive stats than so be it.
There always will be a meta, there always will be a better way to clear the content, and it never stops improving. Maybe one day clearing all the mobs in a dungeon will be good ’cause the loots will have change, who knows man.
