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The New New Meta
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THEDKEXPERIENCE✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭WHAT IS SMURF IN LIFE!
That's the best thing I've read today. May generations of black smurfs exist forever!2 -
Wreuntzylla✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭UppGRAYxDD wrote: »Well its like this....the Indians used bow and arrows. The white man came with Guns. Guns>>>>Bow and arrows so the white man won. Its not fair. Its not right. But its here.
I find it much more effective to explain it using pictures. Especially when men are involved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d5jXDvrOu4"]https://youtube.com/watch?v=_d5jXDvrOu4[/flash]KingYogi415 wrote: »Full medium proc builds are trash on console.
Any decent sorc can blow you up in half a second.
The skill cap for this game is huge, having a decent build is just a start. Imagine showing up to a football game wearing a carboard box as a helmet and flip flops, then start berating the the other player for wearing cleats and real helmets. Some people play win, others would rather blame the "meta" for why they lose.
The skill cap for this game is so low that you can trip over it by assuming something must be complicated.
Your follow-on point is correct. Effort doesn't matter, results matter. In this world or the next. The road to hell is paved by...
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Rex-Umbra✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭How long have we been asking for a nerf to procs? Will we ever get it?Xbox GT: Rex Umbrah
GM of IMPERIUM since 2015.0 -
Trashkan✭✭✭I'm sick of this term. Also sick of best in slot. Can't we all just play the stinking game. I mean garsh.0
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MLGProPlayer✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭UppGRAYxDD wrote: »Well its like this....the Indians used bow and arrows. The white man came with Guns. Guns>>>>Bow and arrows so the white man won. Its not fair. Its not right. But its here.
It's absolutely fair and right if everyone has access to guns though.
People who don't follow the meta in games choose to not follow the meta (for whatever reason).0 -
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✭✭ParaNostram wrote: »Class mastery > meta riding.
Granted, in battlegrounds it's hard to perform if you aren't using proc sets galore which is frustrating to say the least. If in a game about choice everyone is making the same choice, it's time to reevaluate the game.
Class mastery + meta riding > class mastery > meta riding.
This is how you get good.0 -
apostate9✭✭✭✭✭Ebonheart1111 wrote: »I've been stewing for a few days after getting into a zone wide argument about the new meta. Some people say it's fair, as the devs wouldn't allow such things if it weren't intended. I don't agree. The meta is always just an exploitation of an oversight of the dev's shotgun fixes and tinkerings. The main question was if following meta-builds makes you a lackluster player which I feel it does, but some believe the only way to rank is to ride the meta up.
Check this out:
http://www.sirlin.net/articles/playing-to-win
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NewBlacksmurf✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭THEDKEXPERIENCE wrote: »WHAT IS SMURF IN LIFE!
That's the best thing I've read today. May generations of black smurfs exist forever!
@THEDKEXPERIENCE
Smurf-ing
In online gaming, a smurf is an experienced player who uses a new account to deceive other players into thinking he's a noob (newbie). The purpose is usually to play against less skilled opponents who will under-estimate the 'smurf'. The expected result is that the smurf will pwn (dominate) his opponents and humiliate them further as they have been now beaten by an apparent noob.
I've been smurf-ing since the original Diablo, Quake and Doom
Or Madden 93 and NBA Live 95
My gamertag and online presence was Dr. Giggles in Quale 2 LMCTF and later became Blacksmurf
We played on 56k modems but use to own ppl, me and my brother in competitive play back in 1999-2001Edited by NewBlacksmurf on June 13, 2017 10:13PM-PC (PTS)/Xbox One: NewBlacksmurf
~<{[50]}>~ looks better than *5012 -
KingYogi415✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Wreuntzylla wrote: »UppGRAYxDD wrote: »Well its like this....the Indians used bow and arrows. The white man came with Guns. Guns>>>>Bow and arrows so the white man won. Its not fair. Its not right. But its here.
I find it much more effective to explain it using pictures. Especially when men are involved.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d5jXDvrOu4"]https://youtube.com/watch?v=_d5jXDvrOu4[/flash]KingYogi415 wrote: »Full medium proc builds are trash on console.
Any decent sorc can blow you up in half a second.
The skill cap for this game is huge, having a decent build is just a start. Imagine showing up to a football game wearing a carboard box as a helmet and flip flops, then start berating the the other player for wearing cleats and real helmets. Some people play win, others would rather blame the "meta" for why they lose.
The skill cap for this game is so low that you can trip over it by assuming something must be complicated.
Your follow-on point is correct. Effort doesn't matter, results matter. In this world or the next. The road to hell is paved by...
Lol
This is so relevent to this thread:
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FrostFallFox✭✭✭✭Smh so much judgment.
People will play how they want to and at the end of it all why occupy your thoughts with that if it makes you upset?\(^-,,-^)/0
