Job Personalization: Can I Have It?

[LandricFrey]

A good bit of discussion going on here. Thanks to everyone who have posted their ideas, concerns, and keeping things civil at the same time!

I'm still convinced that a game where everyone is the same, isn't as fun as it could be. Might as well have just three jobs one for each role so that it is balanced right? Of course not. Can it go too far and make things unbalanced? sure, but this isn't a serious pvp game, and if someone is OP, well that's just better for your group to complete content. There is no real challenge to MMO's, unless you consider mind-numbing time sinks for gear and memorization of mechanics a challenge. Might as well let us have fun with our builds, right?

And if you're serious about raiding and completing less forgiving content, you'd run with a premade of individuals who only take the "best" set of skills/build/whatever. That "snowflake" some speak of, is just someone trying to have fun. Remember that? fun? What games are all about.

Hardcore raiders can be an awesome set of individuals, but be that as it may, they are still the minority, and designing content for the minority, I feel, isn't a good road for SE to go down.