This brings me to another argument. If ONLY the elite veteran players can do it, is it REALLY balanced?

If you're arguing for a game where terrible players can be just as effective as elite players, I recommend Rock/Paper/Scissors or coin flipping. Yes, in CF skilled players will roll you with any number of different classes. All that shows is that it's a game of skill and not luck.

Your original argument was that CF should be called "Mage Wars" because mages dominate everything. People showed you in various ways that this is something you pulled out of your hindquarters. You named three classes in particular, which all added to to a grand total of one character in the deadliest 25. That should tell you something.

So instead, everyone who is playing effective melee classes did it because of "gear", being "cheap", or a host of other excuses you have.

The simpler explanation: You aren't that good. That's fine. Most people aren't. But we're not going to make changes to the game because skilled players are doing well and you're running about 1:1 in PKs.

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