Nemesis7884 wrote: »

When everything is standardized - it also means every class will use the exact same sets...even less variety

ZOS will really have to MASSIVELY step up their class identity and build variety game...otherwise this mmo will become very boring very fast... and i can see a lot of people only logging in to quickly play through the new storylines and then leave again...

That’s already true to some extent. Every viable build contains a spammable, a DoT, some kind of ranged attack, a CC, a self heal and a shield. And I haven’t seen that act as a break on players’ build creativity.

The standardisation is that all spammables will have a roughly similar cost and damage, similarly all DoTs, HoTs etc. This balance hopes to prevent one Class being superior to another simply through power. This is essential otherwise all PvP becomes a one Class borefest.

It doesn’t mean that all spammables do the same kind of damage as within each Class the skills should reflect the Class identity, so a DK’s skills will be different from a Warden’s but will do largely the same damage for the same cost.

As always some sets will be better than others. But that’s true now as almost every stam build uses Relequen’s. And there was a point when Sload’s was everywhere, then Spell Strategist. Come to think of it there are whole guilds which you can’t even join unless you have vMA weapons....

Hasn’t stopped lots of players developing builds they like that work perfectly for them that contain none of the above.