Job Individuality/Pride/Dedication

[Orophin]

I have every job leveled, but I'm far from geared well enough or competent enough to play every one of them. I'm kind of in a unique situation in that my LS has a shortage of tanks, which is my role of choice, so I usually get to go as one. This isn't the case for everyone though.

I feel the class stacking thing is a community issue. People look at whatever strat BG employs (my LS is guilty of this too) and adopt it. This isn't BG's fault or anything; they're employing the strategy that works best for them. It just seems many LS's take their strategy as law and that's what you have to do. To my dismay, this usually excludes people from being able to participate because they are in the same position as me in that they only have specific roles with the proper gear and knowledge to be played.

I realize the armory system was created to give flexibility, but I think something needs to be implemented, such as a class lock while in instanced content, so that people aren't expected to swap between several roles during an instance, and hopefully this would also encourage less class stacking so that people can come on whatever class they want to play.

[Duelle]

I feel the class stacking thing is a community issue. People look at whatever strat BG employs (my LS is guilty of this too) and adopt it. This isn't BG's fault or anything; they're employing the strategy that works best for them. It just seems many LS's take their strategy as law and that's what you have to do. To my dismay, this usually excludes people from being able to participate because they are in the same position as me in that they only have specific roles with the proper gear and knowledge to be played.

Here's the thing: player trends, much like doody, roll down hill. WoW had the exact same problem until they started changing raid and class design to allow all classes and specs an equal chance. Before that, if Nihilum or Paragon were doing it, the lv10's running deadmines most likely were too. And if they said your spec was non-optimal, you were screwed.