Idea to fix the lack of Char Customization and Horizontal Progression: Action Glamour

[YGSLlew]

Which other modern MMO has done away with all build design? Every single one I play has some.

Guild Wars 2
has trait paths you can do with major traits that affect the way your skills work - as well as having gear builds, and customized skill sets (you can choose to bring a limited number of utility and have a wide selection. It has a bit more, but point made there I think.

World of Warcraft
still has trait paths that you can choose, specializations that you can choose, interesting stats that you can pick and choose from and has glyphs as well as crafting stuff that augments how you play (like enchanting).

Wildstar
has customized action bar sets where you choose which skills you want and can add limited action points to skills to change how they operate as well as AMPs which unlock certain abilities or change how your abilities may work.

Blade and Soul
has a pie chart thing - I only played briefly in Closed Beta, but there was some customization there. There was also a trait/skill tree to unlock your desired path.

Tera
has a system, i think called glyphs, but it's been awhile. You can purchase these to unlock them and then apply a limited number of points to each skill to modify how they work.

Onto a couple of successful recent single player RPGs.

Fallout 4
has multiple paths, where you can choose to buff up your strength or focus on things like lockpicking, persuasion or toughness.

Witcher 3
has skills that you unlock via investing in as you level up and then a system to modify them via Mutagens

The closest thing this game has is the system where you can change jobs on one class. While cool, it's not really the same thing.
Despite all of this, I personally found Vanilla WoWs the most fun system. It's too bad they scrapped it.

Don't forget "The Secret World": You have a so called "Skill Wheel" with 512 different skills. You had to build your "deck" with 7 active and 7 passive skills, fitting to your choice of primary and secondary weapon. This was a nice method of customizing your playstyle.

[Kaurie]

Don't forget "The Secret World": You have a so called "Skill Wheel" with 512 different skills. You had to build your "deck" with 7 active and 7 passive skills, fitting to your choice of primary and secondary weapon. This was a nice method of customizing your playstyle.

Ah I wasn't forgetting Secret World, I was just listing games that I've played :P I've never really played Secret World (I think I briefly played a beta or something a long time ago)