Originally Posted by Problem.

I'm going to have to disagree with your statement being a more interesting meta.

If you tone-down defense, offense will just walk all over monks. Essentially, that means games will come down to whoever can deplete the enemy backlines energy the fastest or score the first chain kill. Im not sure how interesting that would be, of course this would probably force more skirmishes, but now that your team is wiped, the enemy team can overcompensate to ensure kills on those characters splitting off.

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I will agree however, with encouraging active play. Active play will always reward the more skilled players/teams. I just don't see anyway of making Aegis, any more active than it already is (or lack thereof), not to mention its necessity in today's current metagame. The addition of a ranged DPS character, that can switch targets on the fly, essentially avoiding all forms of active prot, will take too much of a toll on backlines without the passivity of Aegis. If you destroy Aegis, you will more than likely stagnate the metagame even more, shatter any hopes of build diversity, because Paragons are currently the superior midline in terms of dealing damage.