Then what shall we do? Let duelers crit for 8k and melt tanks in less than 3 rounds?
We the player base can do nothing, sadly the die was cast the moment inno decided to embark on this one way trip of power creep.. players demand every more ever stronger ever batter etc .... and ofc Inno have to deliver that or no one spends..
At some point it was always going to get ridiculous & i think we are about there, ho hum 16 years is a good innings for any online game so.
IMO everything needs to be nerfed and reworked, but ofc its too late to now. So many have spent and gone crazy upgrading etc .. nothing personal but many have gladly and shortsightedly bought into it too, its the same with raising the lvl Cap 100 lvls to 250 overnight was plain dumb but totally part of the business model for making more $ & foolishly a large % of the veteran player base welcomed it.. cos it suited them to get gifted 50 or so lvls for free..
Players have been encouraged to uber spend and uber build to simply catch up or keep up of course .. can choose your poison but there is no easy answer other than maybe to allow de grading everything with maybe a reset upgrade option and capping things to much lower maximum than they are now .... though i doubt much of the player base who support the game by spending so much would be very happy.
So you ask whats to be done ? just as V2 introduced an entirely new system a V3 is now needed to dismantle and rework the present & ever growing mess.
Or theres a rework of the entire fort formula, flat line the classes so they can all crit for eg .. base the formulas on AP not SP and generally spend some time figuring out an alternative solution.. something which im not paid to do or work on so wont think about it any further.