Quote Originally Posted by Klefth View Post
That sounds kinda like what they had planned for PvP from the start (they even talked about different sets of abilities altogether), buuut then they went and dumbed down the combat system in favor of PvP, which they wouldn't have needed to do at all if they went with these "different sets of abilities" they talked about originally.

IDK what to believe any more. I just really, really, REALLY hope the combat system won't suck as much as I think it might thanks to a feature that really has no place in here imo. Sad thing is, it's not looking very bright out there so far. At least not from what we saw from the alpha.
Did they dumb down the combat "because of PvP" though? I think you might need to qualify that statement. It seems like a strange decision for them to make in the first place. I can understand them wanting to streamline it, but oversimplifying it would probably just make it equally as lame in PvP as it would in PvE. The fun factor of PvP more-or-less relies on the competition between participants. If it's "dumbed down" to the point where it's not skillful, then that decision could backfire on SE if in fact that was even their decision in the first place.