Skill gem balancing

That's it, that's all I wanted and I thought GGG said major skill rebalancing was coming a few weeks ago. The other tiny minor QOL stuff is OK I guess but not needed. Things can still be fine if the league mechanic is good but come on man, shake up the fricking meta a little bit.

I've been around here on and off for 8 years. I don't recall any real balancing

The game is over a decade old, you don't really expect them to balance skills now do you?

Remember, it's all about "changing the meta", somehow that's their idea of "balancing" skills. You'll get your "new meta" but you can forget about any form of balancing skills.

/chuckle

Its not really possible. Something will rise to the top with an interaction with some unique from 7 years ago that was 1 alch last league + one elevated mod that they didnt expect. You can constantly shift it around but that will just anger people by constantly shifting the meta.

Meta gets shifted constantly , your expectation is that it should every league a complete overhaul of all gems.
That is not gonna happen and way to difficult and perhaps not possible.

Didn't see any meta shifting this league.

Just some of the previously top skills got triple tapped as per long standing tradition of saturation bombing a build instead of applying a careful small nerf and nothing was really lifted to take its place.

Even less skills stand out to me as comfy, even more skills are in the "why would I do this to myself" bin.