Quote Originally Posted by kukurumei View Post
Not only is it a high improbably to balance such a system, the developers themselves have shown they are not up to the task. Whenever you have more variables there is more to balance, because balance is essentially balancing one scenario vs another scenario, and well... more combinations, more scenarios.

You can give them all the fingers and toes to count with, it's not happening in any realistic world. That's one of the reasons it needed to change.

Secondly, no you can't have "I want to play my way". That's denotes a Single player game. That's how it is, and can't be change. The community aspect of it forces standardization, otherwise, you can't even battle monsters correctly.

You fight a monster for 10 minutes. you die. Another guys, comes in wacks it, you learn why...thus you becomes that character's clone. End of story. You are a winner or a loser. Having custom skills or play the way you want doesn't make you a winner. That's always been the point. You can choose to name yourself badasstank, walk and talk like badasstank, and have your own distinct badasstank skills. But you're not a badasstank. You're just a failure, because the winners work the system.

The illusion you can "Be what you want" is utterly and truly false, even more so in the armoury system, because it's so obvious how to abuse it.
not exactly, people will always follow people in any game, that doesnt mean they are right. What makes you a badasstank is how many different ways you can tank, and how effective you are at it.
If they made a class called tank, and it had access to every tanking ability in the game, but the user had to pick which skills for thier style, any combination would still be a tank, how well or how useful they would be is up to the skill at selecting and using those tank abilities.

far as balancing it, its been done, GW has more skills, and you can really be what you want, as long as its something thats in the game. There are super builds, but they are super for a specific purpose. there main prob is there are bad builds, and some people dont like that type of freedom, that is the freedom to make a really bad build.

the problem is being a gladiator doesnt equal being a bad ass tank, and a lot of people want it to.