Matchmaking without the Trinity: how would you do it?

[Zojha]

Simply put: You don't.

Hybrids, by nature, cannot be as good as a specialist in their respective role without either giving up the capability to be good at anything else via specialization or being overpowered. And this means, they either aren't real hybrids, overpowered or they are undesired. The only solutions to that are to force the hybrid into the group mechanically - mandatory hybrid slot - or to give them a unique gimmick that makes them de-facto mandatory regardless of what else they do, like a healer LB3 on a 3 minute CD or massive support spells or whatnot.

Paladin is an example of a hybrid that is specialized in tanking. He can heal, sure, and he can DPS but you only really want him for tanking because that's the only field he's specialized and competitive in. For everything else, you rather take a different specialist.

The end result? Everyone was a DPS with a few support abilities and the strategy for every fight was "Stack in the corner so mechanics can't hit you, wear only maximum glass cannon gear and DPS DPS DPS before you die". It made for very boring gameplay.

Ironically, most of A11 would not play much different without the trinity. From the point of view of a DPS, propeller wind wouldn't change, ATM wouldn't, optical sight wouldn't, laser sword wouldn't, prey wouldn't, shield wouldn't, adds wouldn't and neither would photon. Are you sure it's an issue with the lack of trinity or are the fights maybe just boringly designed?