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Agreed with Kerchunk on that. If you're not having fun with a build make a fun build. You're not feeding your family with divines so what's the rush?
I don't think "play slow if you want a slow game" is a good argument at all. You're just punishing the player who cares about diversity while keeping the meta the same, cutting your own leg while everyone else is running in front of you with multiple legs lol
The mechanics that only exist because of a person running with 5 legs will still exist for the person who cut their leg and runs with only 1. They put a pitfall in the road because the person with 5 legs was too fast, but it affects the person with 1 leg even more, and that pitfall didn't have to exist in the first place if the person with 5 legs didn't exist in the first place
"Just play for fun bro"
Sounds reasonable at first, but if slower builds get punished with worse loot, slower progression, and even higher death risk even if you go full tank, then "just be casual bro" isn’t actually a choice, it’s telling someone to accept being worse at the game in every measurable way you can imagine. Idk about you but I'm a quite competitive person myself, even if I don't plan to tryhard
People don't just follow meta out of nowhere, they follow based on incentives the game itself gives. If the whole game gives you incentives to go faster, then that's what any reasonably competitive person would do to compete. Doesn't mean they like what the game is proposing
"Just handicap yourself and play slow while others clap you bro" is just a big cope
