Soarora wrote: »

Glad you can see why it’s so frustrating when people swear by oakensoul now. It brings me hope that people can change their minds. Oakensoul is a product of its time, I consider it the 1.0 of the accessibility builds (though before oakensoul, we had templar in that role).

Then we got arcanist, which introduces the concept of 2 bars (needed to be an endgame tank/healer due to all the debuffs/buffs/utility you need to have + very beneficial for DPS to have the backbar) with survivability (without having tank & healer buffs like oakensoul, which dps should not self supply except in pvp & solo content so oakensoul may be misleading), and a slow rotation.

Then we got Rakkhat, introducing HA build 3.0 which imo is much more balanced than 2.0 with Oakensoul (there’s skill in sourcing empower + no infinite sustain + introduces the concept of using the back bar for utility (skills that don’t get used, maybe even could put your ult back there and have a bar buffer frontbar ult, room for streak if you have storm calling, etc…) instead of using it for nothing).

Then we got DK’s flame breath channel, showing us that ZOS is committing to each class having a viable slower rotation/easier build.

This diverges the groups of people into imo healthier builds that can lead into having the skills for a faster rotation build or can just be used as they are. Oakensoul just looks overwhelmingly good because of all the buffs it gives but when you really look at the buffs, it just is not worth it as a catch-all mythic, especially as we get skills that buff by being slotted on either bar (even if you don’t want to barswap ever, it is an option to try… putting bar buffers on the backbar and unbinding bar swap. If you want to use a different mythic or have that ring spot for something else, that is).

Taarente wrote: »

If you want to say it’s just pixels in game well you’re just a collection of atoms, go figure.