[FIX THE TRIDOLON META! Make other frames viable]

On 2019-04-21 at 7:40 AM, Aldain said:

The big issue with metagaming is it often reduces something that was supposed to be diverse and fun into a formula and a grind.

Why bother using literally any weapon but the top single target damage weapon for Eidolons? Why bother using anything but Inaros and a Lenz for Arbitrations? Why bother even making any weapons in between since everything but X loadout is useless other than MR fodder?

The point where a meta trivializes the existence of 90% of all other content, not just in endgame areas, but in many others as well, reduces the actual value of everything between starter weapons and endgame weapons.

If MR rank based weapons and frame limits weren't a thing there would be no reason to make almost 90% of all tools the game offers because of how dramatic the power gap is between the best and the rest.

That is where the meta mentality starts to cause problems, and it also limits game design because if the developers DON'T keep the most effective tactics in mind people will just faceroll through the content and then cry there's nothing to do, which is how we get something like the Wolf, where most players can't even scratch him, but the meta crowd delete him in seconds because they can delete everything in seconds.

I just face tank the wolf with my inaros and gram prime. He dies, my team lives, we all leave happy. Wolf can't scratch me.