Understanding Skill Points and how to spend them.

[Lexie]

Forgive me if I gave that impression, but that was not even hinted at. When your choices have actual consequences, and to your actions, that is what I mean by participation trophy, when nothing you choose has any real effect at all and everybody wins that is the pure definition of the words in my book. Not knocking it, that's your thing, I need to know I'm doing something, anything that matters. In my opinion, all of the MMOs in the last decade have massive expensive worlds to explore, if THAT is your only goal then congratulations every MMO has achieved this by far.

here you will see although many have said it before me no one gave a really clear example given what I see for your level and class so I will try...
You are a Gladiator which is a tank and tanks now have 2 ways that they can gear effective health/mitigation, or threat at least at the current moment in the game at lvl 70 those difference are huge, the threat tanks are huge sponges that soak in the healing at times but output the damage to make up for it, the health mitigation tanks may have someone out gear them by leaps and bounds and get pulled off them. The best tanks I have seen in expert content right now (haven't done ex, or savage yet) have a good blend of both not loosing threat nor being a sponge but they are few and far between most days.

[Maero]

Races used to have some slight advantages way back when.
As example Dunefolk Lalafell if I recall had slightly higher piety then other races as example (ideal for caster classes). I actually liked how ARR was in that you can allocate attribute points but alas that is gone now