Ability Points, Skill Trees & Talents being considered to replace leveling. Thoughts?

[Aidorouge]

I say no thanks.

I have played several games who used skill points/talent trees. In the end you always end up with exactly ONE viable build that everyone has to use. No thanks.

This, it *always* comes down to this. The idea of "freedom of choice" just ends up "illusion of choice" with systems like this in MMO settings because you either end up with options that don't matter to make sure groups can function, or everyone gets forced into a meta or else.