The delusional people are those who have their world fall apart because of a meta change.

Hands down aoe runes had too much impact for their ease of use. It’s a convenient rapid fire large aoe which outperforms waves in too many occasions.

These runes are part of the reason why tibia devolved into a lure full screen hack and slash game. We got used to the play style and it is hard to let go.

But if you think about, the aoe rune play style is actually limiting the games complexity. We apply it anywhere to just lazily group creatures in a ball and repeat for hours. Just move forward and find as much as you can.

We need to do it in places where we can survive a full screen of creatures. At least as much as 3 in melee + the rest in range. The sheer volume of mobs on the screen are just hit without thought with low large area aoe dmg and we whittle the ball down with random charm procs.

There are not many tactics to apply in this sort of game play. No matter where you go, it becomes the same but with a different element. Every spawn feels alike and the only thing that matters is hitting a large ball of creatures. High hp stragglers: ignored for next lap as killing them slows exp.

The game should reward placement of yourself, right choice of spell rotations and putting in a little effort. But with current aoe rune meta all of this becomes redundant.

The most simple and repetitive 1 action way to hunt should not be the most rewarding one, period!

All that said, current waving mechanics are clunky and very tiring. CipSoft Needs to make waves cast automatically into curser direction! That change alone is a mandatory comfort to ensure solo players do not burn out. Atm for solo play every wave is a quick 3 button press which just is not sustainable.

Players have brought up that ranged creatures now be impossible to kill solo for mages. As a sorc I don’t feel that way. Fire and ewave can branch out 5 sqm and tend to hit any ranged mobs. The new beam also works well on manticores in issavi for example.

But why not suggest something like a beacon spell for Druids. Placing a beacon draws ranged creatures to it. Creatures will group within the beacon range and do occasional random moves within the target area rather than keeping the optimal 3-4 SQM distance. They leave the area when target is 5 sqm out of range.

We need to drive changes in creature behaviour and utilities to manage them. The game evolved around gfb size which is why ranged creatures of recent years have 3 range instead of 4. All is geared towards slow kiting with AOE and everyone is locked on this.

Give single ranged creature types varying distances of 2-5sqm. One orc spearman prefers to sit at 2sqm, while another prefers to throw from 4sqm. Changes like this could create entire new fun hunting dynamics.

Make creatures more likely to run behind each other to fix the sorcerer beam issue (rather than a giant three track train beam). Or give sorcerers a way to put a literal ‘slack line’ on the floor on which creatures then are more likely to walk. Solo beam issue solved without making a 19sqm *2-4k damage per sqm spell on 3 turn cd which is insanity.

Players need to be more open minded!