Unhinged laby rant

I'd like to preface my rant by making it clear that this is just a rant about my aggravations about the topic, i'm not trying to give any feedback (that would require me owning one) or suggestions.

holy shit i fucking hate labyrinth the archer anni mythic, its so obnoxious how theres a mythic that enables gearless graid solos (cant find the video nor do i remember who it was). "aw hur dur but its been nerfed already duurrrr its not as good as it was before" idgaf how good it was before its intrinsic to boosting the FREE damage of leaving a cluster of traps on the floor. that would be like toxo getting rebuffed to 100k poison again AND was boosted by str. like archer is already strong and does not require much neuron activation to kill at least throw every other class a bone for free comically dumb damage GOD. shaman has reso and that stupid freaky ass build that takes smashing a totem to charge blood pool, swapping masks and activating blood sorow blah blah i cant be bothered to hear/explain how its played which further enhances my point in that it requires skill:tm: to play. assassin has nirv/cata trickshade shenanigans but is comically glassy compared to E/F laby like what the flip anytime you use laby youve got at least 105 def and spec some more and you can offhand ignis again, oh and whats that im fairly sure you can leave traps on the floor and swap over to ignis cant you WHAT THE HELLL meanwhile warriors are busy glazing bmac, assassins are busy chasing the highs of cata and nirv, mage is busy thinking its not much but its honest arcanist spell spamming, shaman having hp going crazy with aco meanwhile ARCHER, SALTEDS FAVOURITE CLASS, gets away with having a weapon worth 10x as much as any other mythic for having god tier (essentially) afk damage LIKE THATS COOL BRO WHERES THE GOD TIER AFK WEAPON FOR EVERY OTHER CLASS

thank you for listening to my unhinged rant this has not meant anything

 

My "favorite" part is how it feeds into the toxic meta playerbase. I've been kicked from parties having the nerve to run an archer build that isn't laby. This is a problem with every class, archetype, and meta, but it's so much worse when the power imbalance is that big; dealing several times the damage without any downsides (that might make you a liability for your team and require actual team coordination to overcome) is such a massive boon that it either trivializes nearly everything or requires everything to be balanced around it, making any group that doesn't make use of it objectively inadequate. It's like having a level 60 weapon that does endgame damage and then balancing all the mid-game around it; obviously everyone will either use it or want teammates that do.

The toxic meta playerbase is -of course- responsible for being toxic, but I think at least some of the blame lands on the devs for this one; you'd be stupid to not want this in your party and to forego literally everything else to try to get it. The people being toxic about it aren't justified in being toxic, but they sure as hell aren't being given reasons not to.