Have to admit, I don't follow the changes to the game religiously (though I'm vaguely aware of tweak improvements to a few classes and trees recently), nor do I really keep up with the flavor of the month builds.
So, instead of "why the fuck are so many people doing so many stupid things", I'm going to ask "is there something here I'm missing?" - because I've been noticing a ton of people (wings on their names, not just clueless new players) swinging great swords with classes I don't think should be swinging great swords.
Are any of these viable at all?
Clerics with great swords (I know there are some decent cleric maul builds out there - but if memory serves correctly - not for fleshies. Could be wrong though).
FvS with great swords
Wizards with great swords
Clerics, FvS and wizards duel wielding long swords.
Wizards duel wielding what I think might have been bastard swords. Way too large to be long swords.
Bonus round
Warlocks trying to melee with anything past a shield build. I've seen some impressive tanky 'locks but my overall understanding of 'locks when it comes to melee is "don't bother."
Warlocks duel wielding daggers.
Warlocks duel wielding long swords.
Auralocks attempting to up-close melee with their duel staffs.
Warlock throwing knife build? This one seemed especially silly to me since it was an auralock. I almost understand trying to melee instead of blocking (...almost) but...kind of pointless to go ranged where your aura isn't doing
any damage, isn't it?
Pretty much everyone I've seen doing any of these things have been just shy of worthless in a group, but are they trying to do something worth wild and just screwing it up? Because, again, I've seriously been seeing a lot of casters using melee weapons recently.
Final bonus question
WTF do wolf form druids need so many spellpoints for? Last few I've ran with's contribution to the group seems to be just blasting through their blue bars in combat but still making like well below average kills, then sucking up every lost soul that drops that other people could be using for instant kills, CC or healing the party. About to start banning them from my groups