Skill Tree

[Kaurie]

Doesn't matter. Community wouldn't accept it.

Theory crafters would calculate the "optimal" build for each class. Then all PFs would be like "Farm party, need WHM with X build" etc.


So no, you wouldn't be able to play how you want unless you were doing casual content.

or unless you were playing with friends/static/fc/made your own party.

Optimal builds don't have to be so different that it'd be any different than choosing an AST vs WHM or a MNK vs DRG. PF's currently don't set these requirements usually, so what makes you think builds would do that?

The biggest problem I see is the following situation:

Tank queues into a high level duty such as Midas.
Healer: "Why are you dying so quickly?"
Tank: "I went full DPS on my skill tree."

The idea is that if you spec a DPS spec, you queue in as a DPS and not a tank.