Clueless returning Vet player, questions

[Jaysun]

I have been gone for over a year and a half. Missed the last expansion and overwhelmed by all the new changes coming for the current expansion. With that the wife and I want to return and we both have over 30 past lives on our characters but I am going to assume the builds are very outdated or will be. So have a few questions that hopefully can get answered while I spend the next two days reading the forums trying to make sense of things

What builds are currently are considered the meta for melee, ranged, healer, caster. I fully understand that most things are viable but what seems to be the ones that outperform a bit. With Update 51, does anyone see this changing a lot and have any idea what they think will be the new meta with the expansion. Mainly asking because would like to spend the next month working toward something I think I would like to play that also performs well. Caster/healer/range/rogue is what we normally like to play.

Does anyone have a link to a general overview of what is actually changing in U51? Ive been on the test forums and there is just so much info.

Anyone have a link to the current enhancement trees and the new one coming with the expansion. Would like to look over the abilities to mentally envision a build.

Any other information that a returning player should be aware of? We like to run quest in R1-R3 and always Duo.

Thanks for the help.

[SlowDM]

I suspect many players are clueless at the moment. 1 thing any Lev 20 character is going to get a +5 heart of wood. Any character who has all old epic destinies filled ( not karma ) just all complete destinies will get a free cloak. There are separate dev started forum threads about general, feat and separate new trees eg new Shiradi etc. Lots to read . The final actual ‘what will the be’ hasn’t finished yet . The new revamp is due early in November. Enjoy the show.

[Jaysun]

I don't know where I saw it but a week ago I saw somewhere that there were changes to how doublestrike/doubleshot/casting etc were being changed to help system performance and among other reasons. Has that already happen or is that upcoming. Could someone post where that info was from. I looked at the last few updates of patches and didnt see anything regarding this.

[AebroKomatme]

I don't know where I saw it but a week ago I saw somewhere that there were changes to how doublestrike/doubleshot/casting etc were being changed to help system performance and among other reasons. Has that already happen or is that upcoming. Could someone post where that info was from. I looked at the last few updates of patches and didnt see anything regarding this.

Yeah, that was U49. From a player perspective, there was very little to no appreciable improvement to the lag issue.

[Jaysun]

Yeah, that was U49. From a player perspective, there was very little to no appreciable improvement to the lag issue.

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