This game is in need of character customization

[Azoryl]

Traits are just passive buffs... nothing wrong with that and I understand.

Skills are active, traits are passive.

Talent Trees in WoW were silly, even Blizzard realized this. You either had cookie cutter builds, or hybrid builds that were OP, and were soon nerfed.

I think the system is great as it is now. Now you know, when you get a BLM in a group he should be able to do X, Y, and Z. If he doesn't want to, or sucks, you can kick him and find another BLM. What people don't want is:

Group : LF BLM for Gardua X
Person: I am a BLM
Group: Are you "Certain Spec"
Person: No I am "Other Spec"
Group: LOL NOOB

[Nenin]

Traits are just passive buffs... nothing wrong with that and I understand.

Skills are active, traits are passive.

Talent Trees in WoW were silly, even Blizzard realized this. You either had cookie cutter builds, or hybrid builds that were OP, and were soon nerfed.

I think the system is great as it is now. Now you know, when you get a BLM in a group he should be able to do X, Y, and Z. If he doesn't want to, or sucks, you can kick him and find another BLM. What people don't want is:

Group : LF BLM for Gardua X
Person: I am a BLM
Group: Are you "Certain Spec"
Person: No I am "Other Spec"
Group: LOL NOOB

Just because it has been done poorly before, that doesn't mean it CAN'T be done well. Look at Rift's soul system: http://www.rifthead.com/stc

You not only have nigh infinite choices but those choices are VALID builds.

[Lycieus]

Traits are just passive buffs... nothing wrong with that and I understand.

Skills are active, traits are passive.

Talent Trees in WoW were silly, even Blizzard realized this. You either had cookie cutter builds, or hybrid builds that were OP, and were soon nerfed.

I think the system is great as it is now. Now you know, when you get a BLM in a group he should be able to do X, Y, and Z. If he doesn't want to, or sucks, you can kick him and find another BLM. What people don't want is:

I will respectfully disagree on this point. In past incarnations of WoW I would agree. For as much as I hated Pandaria, I loved the modifications they did to talent trees. Three choices per tier and they all did useful and similar things. You actually chose the one that appealed to you for thematic reasons or even for specific situations. I alluded to this in one of my earlier posts.