Ability Points, Skill Trees & Talents being considered to replace leveling. Thoughts?

[PercibelTheren]

I really like the idea of them but I'm afraid it would only lead to what everyone else is saying - the community deciding one way is better because it does 0.5% more DPS or something stupid like that. We already see this when people lock certain jobs out of PF because they perform ever so slightly worse, despite being perfectly viable. Unless we can somehow make people stop doing it, I don't see a way it would work.

[AmiableApkallu]

I really like the idea of them but I'm afraid it would only lead to what everyone else is saying - the community deciding one way is better because it does 0.5% more DPS or something stupid like that. We already see this when people lock certain jobs out of PF because they perform ever so slightly worse, despite being perfectly viable. Unless we can somehow make people stop doing it, I don't see a way it would work.

I might argue that Bozja shows that people can look past the meta. Outside of DRS and 5-person speed-runs of DRN (and the occasional cranky person in CLL who gets upset over saving only 5 prisoners), I've really not seen people care all that much about exactly what essences and lost actions others use. The needs of DRS don't seem to be forcing everyone who's not running it into the same builds.