Quote Originally Posted by Synra View Post
There's a right way to spec and there's "you gimped yourself".
This is the fault the MMO community being terrible, not any inherent design flaw. In tabletop RPGs and even early MMOs, character design was about making yourself unique and bringing something to the table that none of your allies could. Now it's all about unquestioningly worshiping the numbers that come up on Recount, and valuing players entirely by their DPS and nothing else. That's ultimately what killed the support role in modern games. Sacrificing your own output to enhance the performance of others is no longer considered acceptable, simply because you can't measure it on a chart.