One of the things I like about Horizon Zero Dawn is they introduced cosmetics so you didn't have to compromise your visual style for the right set of numbers for your current opponents.
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That's how I used to play World of Warcraft. Two-handed Shockadin forever!
I remember starting a Hunter because they could have pets but got real bored real quick. It felt too easy. After a bit of research, I changed to a warrior. At launch the warrior was the most under powered class.
Solo levelled my way to 60. Took me twice the time to get to level 60 because I kept going on adventures. Made it to Gadgetzan at some ridiculously low level (after many deaths). I also found a bunch of easter eggs before hitting 60 too.
I was allowed to be a DPS warrior in raids and at one point was matching or outdoing Rogues for damage. Used to speed run Stratholme and Scholomance as a fury Warrior because my healers loved the chaotic challenge of keeping me alive.
I had so much fun playing my own way and that probably contributed to why I had such good friends in the guild during that time. I had to quit because the expansions kept adding too much grind and it sucked having all that hard earned gear become pointless every new expansion :(
I was allowed to be a DPS warrior in raids and at one point was matching or outdoing Rogues for damage.
I can't remember how often I switched between being the guild's main tank and DPS warriors. I wanted to do DPS but due to activity and skill concerns I was always roped back into being the MT. Upside was I was basically collecting the top-tier gear for both specs. But DPS warriors were always somewhat competitive. Poor DPS Paladins were basically never viable in high-end raids during all of vanilla.
Also the warsong PVP battleground with a raid equipped main tank was fun ... well, for us.
Used to speed run Stratholme and Scholomance as a fury Warrior because my healers loved the chaotic challenge of keeping me alive.
Ha, I remember [Righteous Orb] farming there, which eventually just turned into speedruns. Our healer needed them and by the end we were going in with 3 dps warriors, a mage and a priest, just smashing through it. Occasionally we'd only be 4 people and invite some random (conditions is we got the orbs, but we don't care about anything else). Many though we were mad for going in without a tank. Good times.
My guild had so many tanks and off-tanks that I was always last pick as a tank but I still attended most raids. I made myself useful by getting every alchemy, cooking and first aid recipes along with damage and tanking for "oh shit" moments.
As a warrior, I had access to every gear so I used my first points on onyxia bags for all my bag slots. I carried random gear like the underwater breathing staff, a huge amount of potions (especially running potions), a wedding dress and a flame enchanted broom to beat people with while wearing a wedding dress. I had so many gimmick items to amuse people during any down time.
I had so many points that I suddenly went from a mix of random gear to a mix of really good random gear. It was fun to be a menace in PvP before PvP gear became the norm. Healers loved me because they liked playing with my life and I always quick to protect them. Enemies hated me because I'd get all the heals or I'd be the most annoying mosquito if they attacked my healers.
Lots of good memories from that time but MMO's never hit the same after that game. The people I met during that time were what made that it all special.
Don't sleep on the private servers offering WotLK Classic with XP modifiers (x3, x7, etc). Group of friends decided to spin up characters and "donate" like 20 bucks and end up with enough gold to just buy all the mats for most professions. Makes it easy to meme ourselves a good time (all warlock party? Sure why not)
Very similar to my experience. The game was more fun doing what I wanted instead of cookie cutter builds and min maxing.
We had a paladin with a thunderfury ...
Did somebody say [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]?
Ah man, WoW was a rough game to not follow the meta. I always felt so bad about it, because if you had really good friends, they would say that you were still contributing and useful when you were playing your little niche build, but man you had to rely on never looking at the numbers, not playing optimally would end with you holding back just so many people.
Yeah, especially in vanilla most hybrid classes were basically useless outside their "main" role when it came to high-end raiding.
What is meta ~ just enjoy the best.
I see someone using only meta on a shooter as someone who is so untalented naturally they need to have their weapon carry them.
Like, on CoD, in the last 3 games I played (BO6, MWIII, MWII) the meta weapon was always something that had zero fucking recoil by default, so no matter how long it took to kill you could brute force a win on ANY gunfight with sheer accuracy. In MWII it was the TAQ-56, in MWIII it was the MCW, and in BO6 it was the Jackal/AMES. And in BO7 it's the Dravec 45.
Like, are meta abusers so fucking ass that they need a weapon with no actual recoil at all to kill people? To the point they use it for an entire god damn year?? Bro. Every time I used those guns (for the mastery camo) I just felt so absurdly carried it wasn't even funny. I could ego challenge a sniper from 60 meters and still win.
I despise the meta fps guns and players. The tryhards bouncing and sliding everywhere with the same guns padding their stats but not really spending any effort on the objective other than finding a spot to raise their KDR by killing players actually attempting to work the objective. Also, they donβt do revives even if medics, they just use the healing for themselves to not die.
Tangentially, fuck devs that stack kits like this. If you make a game with 40 guns and variants, why the fuck make it so that only 4 get used because of some OP factor? Surely a rebalance would help. These kits and tryhards can really mess up enjoying a game and wanting to try different setups.
This shit is why I think ANY movement tech should require some skill and effort put into it to be utilized effectively (like in Titanfall 2), and that ANY type of stim shot should not be too fast. It should put your gun away with NO recourse, AND take a bit to inject, AND not heal super fast. Like, every time I shoot someone in the back in ANY modern FPS game, the piece of shit doesn't turn around and shoot me, or even 180 dropshots me like I was used to back in the BO2 days. No, they always run/slide away like a little bitch before taking their super fent/morphine/whatever fuck-ass instant healing item they have, AND THEN turn around to shoot. Like, yeah, I get wanting to recover health before shooting back, but uh... either of those things should NOT be a get-out-of-jail-free-card. The mf WAS in a bad position AND should be punished for it.
Ah, if only. The game Iβm in the lol-180 kills still happen, you die after taking cover because lag, and if you have a good connection it favors the lagger because the game stacks their shots into a burst that you have no hope of surviving. The rest, all true.
The meta becomes the meta because as people start using it, it becomes required to win.
It doesn't mean you can't play without it, you just can't be competitive without it. Some people want to have fun playing games, and some people want to be good at games. And some people can't have fun unless they're winning.
It's only required if you're a bitch who plays fuck-ass games with Ranked rules where literally everything fun is banned except for laser beam automatic weapons. Meta whores are all carried and won't even admit it. I had straight up righteous glee when they nerfed the aim assist on BO7 and saw all those "professional" players struggling to hit a single shot at first. Sure, they did adapt later, but them noticing they were straight up aim assist merchants for a good while was extremely funny.
And then those idiots have the NERVE to complain about shotguns or snipers... BITCH! YOU HAD AN AIMBOT FOR 5 FUCKING YEARS!!
I feel personally attacked. I've never played CoD, but that's 100 % what I would do! That being said I suck ass, I'm 30 and I haven't played any shooters for me to build skill when I was younger. So now whenever I try FPSes I suck too much for it to be even fun. Only exceptions are offline shooters, that can be fun. Fuck other people.
I don't mind if a noob uses those types of guns. I do, however, get insanely tilted if the player using that gun is literally already excellent at the game and yet chooses the literal baby gun for no reason other than "I'm lazy and I don't want to actually try".
Play any MOBA with chat disabled.