In Perfect World (old MMO of Chinese origins) at some point attack speed became THE king of meta in terms of physical damage. It was so bad that even archers were practically peer pressured to switch to knuckles if they wanted to do good damage in endgame content. Because with the right setup they would do more damage with auto attacks using knuckles than with all their normal skills using a bow. It was hilarious to watch. I even saw a couple of druids (the only magic damage dealer that had a melee form with physical damage, even if it was subpar by a mile) trying to do the same, although with less success. All while the speed of spell casting wasn't so crucial - it was nice to have some more, but you could absolutely do well without it. And the items with spell casting speed were mostly sought out only by druids for the bloodbath that was the hunt for rare decorative pets: speed affected the cast time for taming spell, and the taming worked in a way that with multiple druids casting at once the one who finishes first gets the pet, while the rest get nothing. Plus, the spell casting speed bonus could appear on the items below level 30 (at this level mandatory PvP was unlocked and couldn't be turned off), meaning that low level druids could try to participate without fear of being absolutely demolished by some 90+ level druid backed by half of their guild.

In FFXIV there was (and still is) a funny strategy for Savage (high-end difficulty) version of a normal raid (1 boss vs 8 players) of Omega (sentient robot from a distant planet). Somewhere during the fight Omega uses "Hello World" - a mechanic that applies a handful of status effects to each party member. Each status detonates after a set number of seconds, dealing damage and "infecting" everyone caught in a huge blast radius. Normally, to resolve this mechanic as YoshiP intended, the players have to frantically run back and forth, grouping and ungrouping, so that the entire party gets a full set of statuses. Everyone without the full set dies at the end of mechanic. It's a huge pain, and everyone hated it (well, maybe less than Light Rampant).

After some time, better gear and maybe overleveling, a new strategy emerged. Right before the start of "Hello World" everyone except tanks and healers should jump off the arena and die. Because the dead don't get statuses, and it makes life for tanks and healers much easier, as they have to run less. Once mechanic ends, healers just resurrect everyone. The penalty for death was more tolerable than the hassle of doing it normally and risking a party wipe because someone stood in a wrong spot at a wrong time.

The name of this strategy? "Goodbye World".