Quote Originally Posted by Sunraven View Post
...so you had to pick your focus stat and sacrifice other stats. So a vit dekan couldn't also have melee attack etc. Temps have always hit hard but they used to have to sacrifice in hp/vit/pdef before the additional boss drops and then rings with all stats and upgrades and epics were added which kept things a little more balanced. You had to focus a particular stat for the character or build you were going for.
Which is exactly how balanced gameplay should be. Each class having its most useful build. Full dex guards and agi dhans crit hard. Full int temps hit hard. Vit dekans ffs hard. Str dhans dp pp hard. Vit defenders tank like nobody's business. Each pure build has its strength. What ends up ruining that balance is adding high all-stat and all-attack bonuses that allowed these pure builds to enhance other attributes (most notably HP). Frankly if you are building a dps char, you should not reasonably be expected to tank. If you are building a tank, you reasonably should not expect to be able to inflict heavy damage. Once you toss in boss drops with all stats and all attack boosts, you flush that whole idea of balance down the crapper. If a player really wanted to play more than lone stat, there has always been the hybrid builds (a hybrid guard was hella fun to play). How may here plays a hybrid build anymore?