>play MMO>about to pick my class>see that one class is classified as “support” with some healing>start playing>its actually just a dps with completely passive supportI get that support has never been a popular class archetype but why exactly did every single archetype that wasn’t dps get turned into a dps including tanks and healers on modern mmos?I always thought the idea of having one or two unpopular classes like bard was to appeal to the niche and not to be as popular as the dps classes which are more common and frequently picked.I fucking swear wow did irreversible damage to the mmo genre
>>726036371because shit eating retarded normies eat up the hype cycle and that's all the devs need to make back their investment and abandon the game
>>726036371dead genrenobody has time for a second job playing an mmo anymore when they can just play free gachaslop
>>726036371MMORPG is a dead genre due to internet saturation. There's no innocent discovery phase, everything is solved right out of the gate due to the holy trinity being so ubiquitous. All content that requires team play is 100% combat related.MMORPGs should've always stayed chatrooms with minigames, not rotation refinement boss encounters. Like RTS's, its core player base is began to fragment between the Civilization enjoyers and the Twitch competitive ground. Now MMORPG's are fragmenting into the social VR chat ground that idles in capitals and just chat while showing off cosmetics and whatever trinket they have, the other group is focused entirely on mastering a series of raid/dungeon encounters which you can essentially complete by memorizing a sequence of buttons and looking at the floor for aoe's to avoid.The genre is going the way of the dinosaur and that's a good thing.
>>726036781>instead of wasting time people waste money to not "play" a gacha mobilegachaniggers need to be euthanized
>>726036371DPS cattle literally destroyed an entire genre
Because the bard role is always garbage that only worked in actual MMOS like EverQuest/2 SWG and old WoW shamans. Also monkeys never play anything but carries, go figures so you see an anti mage who goes 1-15 on your team every game but there clinkz is 20-1 because nobody wants to pick high skill roles(aka bad damage) because they don’t see OOGA BOOGA big numbers My favorite league character was bard but he’s just so bad it’s laughable.
>>726036975this but also the way metagaming, endgame and wikifaggotry took over and adventure was no longer the important part of the experience
>make support too easy>the pro players who raid and PvP get bored and leave while the casual gamers refuse to do anything harder than the main campaign >make healing too hard>PvP and raiding is in an iron hand stranglehold by a clique of sweaty healersHow do you get a middle ground?
>>726036371Because they try to appeal to people who don't like MMO's. Devs go for the instant gratification, fast progression, solo playing, interaction non required crowd with fried brains.
