Quote Originally Posted by Physic View Post
ehh, got to agree with princess here. First of all, i think Betel overvalues conformity, 2nd of all his assumption is that the community is right, when in practice this is highly questionable. 3rd of all the assumption that left to their own devices, people will more often than not make builds that drastically effect other peoples progress negatively.

Fact is, just because you do your own thing doesnt mean it will A)suck B) that its wrong C) that you can make your own build without screwing everyone else.

there have been numerous occaisons where people thought there was only one way to do something, it was in fact the societal norm, and they were wrong, this happens irl and in game. It even happens that the societal norm is actually NOT the best way to do something.
This is incredibly vague. Yes, innovation does happen when something goes against the "norm". But they become innovations because they improve some quality or value of something somehow. Take for example Ford making the production line a standard. That wasn't a society norm, but afterward it became one. Or take for example the founder of facebook or many tech founders, a lot of them dropped out of college to form companies. That isn't wasn't a norm but that kind of trend could become a norm for many technologically gifted people.

The point is that people do step out of society norms, but for that to become a trend it has to be something useful. It's like natural selection. So in a game if people are experimenting with builds, eventually some build will come out that's the best and most people will follow that one and maybe once in a while experiment with something different. People naturally want optimization, especially when not everyone has time to try new ways of doing things.

Having mostly auto-allotment makes things more streamlined while also ensuring that you don't get stuck with a whm who dumped all his stats into str just for funsies, thus making you lose 2 hours cause your party kept dying.