Alienation of Dedicated and Skilled players

[ToasterMan]

NOPE! Horizontal progression in this game won't work, and here's why.

Players will find the best sets or whatever someone like Mr. Happy tells them to use and just use only those sets for raiding, nothing else. I saw it happen in PSO2 myself. That game had different skill trees for each class, and guess what? There was a meta, there were certain skills that you were expected to take, or you would be shunned and disadvantaged. People are just going to find the best combination of pieces to use and just roll with that.

Same reason why all the dungeons are linear now. People will just find the fastest route to the finish so they can just get it done. So why bother?