Quote Originally Posted by kukurumei View Post
Instant changing is a "cheat character" To be able to min/max yourself at any given time for any given situation is a cheat in MMO terms, because MMO live on stats. That's why FF14 attempted to balance it the way it did. The whole armory system revaluation is based on the same problem.
Don't make it instant then. There are plenty of alternatives. It's easy to agree with you that such an extreme solution leads to extreme problems, but that doesn't mean there is no way at all to make a free stat distribution system work.