The big thing people often miss is the dozens upon dozens of failed runs before the video that worked was made. Sure, some people one and done stuff, but that's less frequent.
Yes. It's very difficult to take such videos as representative evidence of wider population impact.?
Not only are they, by nature, the domain of the very few and best, but there is no context as to how many failures before led to the successful video on display.
It's a data point, but hardly a reliable one, and certainly in my view no basis for nerfing or buffing anything.
I think that perhaps the Devs might be being underestimated here - they certainly have access to far more data than any individual player.
For my money, the R7+ nerfs were the right move, but as usual the sledgehammer was used where a scalpel was needed. Then compounded by further nerfs to casters which went too far.
As for melees, they haven't received much if any of a buff recently in general, so I see zero argument for nerfing them now (I believe shifter razorclaw was nerfed but may need another look). The exception to this is DL, and that to me is a bit of an outlier right now, but it is the new shiny and I'd expect bait and switch to kick in as it's the usual MO, so we should enjoy that whilst we can.
Throughout this and other threads there are clearly those who want to see casters buffed compared to melee and are consistent in prosecuting that agenda. There are also those, like me, who disagree strongly with that proposition, and are equally consistent in pushing back with that agenda.
Is what it is. I'm not convinced in the slightest, but as ever YMMV. ??
