Quote Originally Posted by AlexiaKidd View Post
Also lets not forget that you wouldn't be able to get to Physical Level 50 without gaining any skills as don't forget even DoL/DoH were supposed to have fighting skills originally.
Perhaps that was part of the issue. Maybe they either couldn't get the motion capture for the crafter combat done in time and/or could get the crafters integrated into combat soon enough, so they just said screw it and went with the quasi-shoehorned system we got now.