Suggestion to the Developer

[Tiggy]

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.

Well to be fair it's also a function of game design. Like in Diablo 2. Sure you could pick where to spend your stat points, but there were very specific builds that players used anyway which really removed the choice. The players did this because more offense was generally the best strategy in that game. No amount of other stats options was going to change the fact that if you hit hard you do better. Therefore despite options the players choose the one that does the most damage. This isn't due to a bad player community. It's due to game design.