Quote Originally Posted by Blessedbythesun View Post
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I've played RO too. The "choice of build" is merely an illusion, though. Let's take the Turn Undead priest build. No one want those as an ally for WoE or exp parties that doesn't involve undead. While it's true that they offered the option to reset your skill tree at a cost with a later patch (it wasn't there at the start), your "choice" effectively gets undermined by something called "useful" and "need".

Regardless of the amount of skills you have to choose from, players will always be funneled towards a certain direction by the community.

What it did offer was diversity of roles with each class as there was no predetermined role for each class in that game