Quote Originally Posted by Train88 View Post
One could argue that if you speced mage skills you played mage. And that it was fine the way it was. Appart from the lack of benefit from the actual points i mean. I dunno i do seem to miss less with more dex and i didn't really have a problem with it. A little bit like the OP.

If it's not broken don't fix it
The thing is though, currently the points don't really matter and it's hard for people to switch between melee and mage quickly and easily. With per-class point allocation coming later after the removal of physical level you can build each class the way you want to. The old system was broken for a number of reasons, it needed to be fixed. This is probably the best way to fix it without outright removing it.