This whole Meta Party thing is hurting me. x_x

[Trensharo]

If any group actually 'needs' the 'superior class,' then there are larger issues with those groups. You're better off avoiding them.



Very little of what's unpackaged in this thread is 'new information.' Ultimately, this meta party issue is a glaring community problem. The more people who spurn the ridiculousness that it is, the sooner it will go away.

It's not a need. It's a preference. I think your inability to understand this is clouding your judgement. You're trying to police the preferences of others. You're free to "prefer" to avoid them, but your choice to play a class they deem inferior for the content or group composition doesn't make it bad for them to prefer to avoid you.

The community is only a problem insofar as people like you would like them to ignore the glaringly obvious. They can do this, for the "betterment" of the game, but they're still putting themselves at an objective disadvantage. Again, the capability to do the content does not mean that your class is the most advantageous for completing the objectives within a given group composition. It can still be objective worse than several other classes. Asking them to ignore that is asking them to be willfully ignorant of pretty cut and dry issues in the game. It's actually kind of insulting that you and others like you keep quoting this B.S. about "every class can do it." The issue isn't capability, it's viability within given setups which perform better than others. That's what META is.

It has nothing to do with player attitudes, beyond wanting to stick to it. It has to do with mathematics. Math isn't based on their opinion, it's based on concrete evidence and facts.

Lastly...

I (nor anyone else that I can remember) is refusing to take along valuable tools that have no downside.

No. Uh uh.