Quote Originally Posted by Eothas View Post
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Effective in the areas they "choose" to master would be useless for a great majority of the content, resulting them being locked out or alienated from anything but their "specialisation". The more extreme example: Turn undead priest. It's useless for everything that's not undead and anything that's immune to instant death effects. Not to mention completely useless for PvP content. Considering the required stats for it and if a player would choose such a build, it would only make them useful for one purpose: undead PvE trash grinding. Of course, said player could "choose" to reset their skills and stats to fulfill other needs. But that would simply mean they're being funneled by the community (and the game) to be useful with their class for endgame content. If they "choose" to temporary go for the grind build and later reset into more useful endgame builds, it's nearly the same story.

So let's go for an even more extreme variation: Mace acolyte/priest with agi, dex and str build. Someone decided to "choose" this path/build. This was actually a thing back in the early stages of the game for the lone wolves. But would that be accepted by the community and be invited for any form of content?