Class Change. It’s time.

ZaroktheImmortal

Eh why not I mean with how much you have to do not just with collecting and levelling stuff but all the questing.

OmniDo

Astrid wrote: »

No, because people would cherry pick the most overpowered skill lines and passives and create basically a god-tier class.

That's why I said in my initial post:

OmniDo wrote: »

But, they didnt want to do all the maths needed to balance the passives (i.e lazy), and online-gamers who play MMO's are too accustomed to WoW and WoW-clones to adapt to anything different (i.e stubborn and lazy).

Astrid wrote: »

Then it would be made completely redundant to theory craft and consider which classes to bring to certain content depending on passives they apply to the group, damage output, survivability, utility. It would be a one size fits all for tanks, healers and dds respectively at endgame and no one would alternate from it creating even less diversity than what there is now in the meta. Yeah sure your casual players could come up with some creative builds but that suggestion is a living nightmare for power creep. Classes make sense.

Nah, you could still theorycraft to your hearts content.
Only essential skills to the Trinity (Healer, Tank, DPS) would have to be balanced out to prevent redundancies and power-creep, along with obvious math(s) needed for overlap.

This would produce the effect similar to the original Secret World leveling system, where all XP earned was shared and could be distributed wherever, allowing players to completely customize their characters.

Of course there will always be highly sub-optimal builds and gear combinations.
So what?

We didn't all start out knowing exactly how to /win the game with only a few dozen hours invested.
Many of us had to spend hundreds upon hundreds of hours experimenting and learning how things worked before META was born. After META emerges, it's just a matter of visiting your local website or using the latest and greatest addon with built-in guides and templates.

That doesnt detract from the point that classes are not needed at all, it only highlights management foresight, insight, creativity, and accountability (or total lack thereof).

Jem_Kindheart

Not for nothing but ironic story: I emailed support once offering to pay whatever amount to re-class my original / first character. [ pve Stam NB, nerfed repeatedly for years ]

Was told "It is impossible to change class or alliance... 'bla bla bla', nobody at Zenimax Support can do such a change nor does game code allow it"

NO KIDDING a week and a half later... Alliance Change tokens available in Crown store LOL

was one of those big *eyeroll* moments lol

Wuuffyy

MakeMeUhSamich wrote: »

We can already change our character’s race, sex, appearance, and now even faction.

It’s time for the option to change class.

It’s time.

Yes!

Wuuffyy

Sarannah wrote: »

No please, everyone would be running around as the next flavor of the month build, instead of playing the class they were playing.

I'm not against the option to re-birth a character as another class, to level 1. Keeping the current amount of skill points, but resetting all those in the class's skill area. This way we can experience the game on a main, keep the skillpoints + skilllevels and achievements, but play as another class.

Like the already weren’t running alts to do that? ZOS please don’t ban me this isn’t hate!

ZaroktheImmortal

Jem_Kindheart wrote: »

Not for nothing but ironic story: I emailed support once offering to pay whatever amount to re-class my original / first character. [ pve Stam NB, nerfed repeatedly for years ]

Was told "It is impossible to change class or alliance... 'bla bla bla', nobody at Zenimax Support can do such a change nor does game code allow it"

NO KIDDING a week and a half later... Alliance Change tokens available in Crown store LOL

was one of those big *eyeroll* moments lol

Yeah, so clearly it's not impossible.