Return of Reckoning

I have the feeling the biggest scam in this game, is buying Offensive RvR sets. I was doing a raw stat comparison + empirical tests and it seems that the damage fall off of a fully defensive sets is about 10%, compared to the offensive. Speaking mostly about endgame gear (Sov, Triu/Vict, WLord). In the same time the defense is increased a lot more than 10%. The biggest surprise came when I was comparing a Def WL build vs. Off WL and Def BW vs. Off BW. For the WL the offensive stats were pretty on par, the defensive ones were totally OP. As for the BW it was even worse. The Off stats were only "shining" at crit rate, which was about 12% more, as for the rest of all other stats, the Def build was superior. And considering this is a class that has sort-of built in very high crit chance, I think its an absolute no brainer that Def is the way to go. Either 5 Def Sov + 3 WL + Jewelry3 for socket, or 3 WL, 3 Def Sov, 3 Triu (Replica incl).

I think the current meta is totally broken and Offensive builds are not viable at all. Not to mention a simple 100 gold chest with 184 hp/4s breaks the game like nothing else. Lately every class is wearing that over Sov gear, because is that much better. People running with the Def sets will disagree and say: "don't ruin things that are fun", but at the end there is a whole segment of the game that isnt (Offensive builds). I think there is a much needed revamp of the stats of all the sets.

Make offensive great again. Because now its just like Defensive statwise, but worse in survival. I would love to hear your thoughts about it.

Reason of each set should be clarified with upcoming item balancing like aoe set, st set, def set etc. New players mostly buy wrong set because of this uncertainty.
Regen gears need nerf obviously, i think community all agree (except def w.e's xD) but we need to convince devs somehow
On the other hand, def builds are still a playstyle which i dont wanna lose it permanently. A Def build dps can save the fight not with damage but utility so pretty usefull for warband/fort/city siege.

another solo player thread

This game has in general a major issue with def stats especially armor, anti armor pen and anti crit. There is a reason that most complained about builds are def builds like def WE. Of course there are other factors like pots and abso which are also out of control. Heal and heal crit are also unchecked. Armor reduces normal damage so much that DMG builds make no sense unless you have some Armor pen but then again there is anti armor pen in this game wtf. Same goes for crit, in general a nice stat coupled with some tactics but there is so much anti crit available that it hardly makes sense. But yeah no hope left for this game soon they probably nerf the offensive stats so there is even less damage available hey