Adding Stances

[Rivinhal]

No it’s not okay. Just look at the tales of the duty finder thread. That thread speaks for itself. If you aren’t playing optimally, it’s a f-off or die situation, or that’s how I feel anyway. Hence why I say if they make whm complex like re-adding stance dancing, I will have to drop it because 1) I can’t handle stance dancing, it’s too hard meaning I’m not playing optimally and 2) it is no longer fun. Welp, since me and others like me who played whm for it’s simplicity just got alienated from adding “complexity” to the class which is antithetical to the reason why we started playing the class in the first place, it means we can no longer play the game nor experience the story with our characters and thus SE loses paying subscribers.

Frankly, this all sounds a bit selfish to me. "If I don't like it, and I can't play it optimally, it shouldn't exist!"

Why couldn't you "play the game or experience the story with your characters" exactly? You realize that if they re-added stance dancing, that you wouldn't have to do it, right?

Right now I see two sides:
With less complex classes we have a group of people who are clearly bored and even quitting.
With more optionally complex classes we would have people who suddenly "can't play optimally" and are upset about that for some reason, despite being casual players.
But only one of those situations is optional. I can't choose not be "not bored" anymore. You could choose to just ignore CS if it were re-implemented.

What baffles me most of all is that everything that people have proposed so far has been optional mechanics that high level players could use to take their play further.
If people were proposing baked-in redesigns that over-complicated the class at a base level and truly hampered your ability to play, I'd be right along side you decrying those propositions as a bad idea. But that's not what's happened.

I swear, I'm not even trying to be mean here. I just don't understand your concern.