If it is not broken, DO NO FIX IT!

[Abriael]

Well at rank 45 I have 166 STR yes I mistakenly went over cap, so I dont see why one would not be abel to get stats to 174 Just not a lot of them, so that means you have to make a choice, do you want to hit harder, miss less, have more health, more mana. This allows for more diverse builds.

For balancing reasons. The more wide you allow people to swing the stats, the more it's hard to balance the effect of such stats. That's why basically every MMORPG that allows stats allocation also has hard or soft caps.

The real problem is not that there are caps, but that such caps are not visible. They should be clearly indicated, in order to avoid players erroneously wasting points.