Can you explain what balance this brings? Can you explain how this would negatively impact anything? You keep saying things and provide no insight, which leads me to believe you don't really know.
Well to provide a bit more insight:
A. I browse off and on through the day which doesn't always give a great deal time to give lengthy explanations.
B. It's generally on my phone so it's even worse to type out an explanation that, as vets, I would expect to have some knowledge in it.
I didn't think I really need to explain why allowing an 840 cap and jewelry without some balance would make everything overpowered, and almost impossible to predict which templates will need nerfed in order to stop them from being invincible, especially in PVP, making it an endless cycle we've already been fighting for years. (Generally when this occurs everyone tends to play the same template, so if you happen to have a bunch of invincible people in pvp this doesn't really create the need to want to go out and pvp).
So while this may make PVM more convenient to do when playing solo, eventually people will get bored because they did not compensate the AI to adjust for these overpowered templates. Who wants to play something they can reach the end game of quickly? I used to GM for a game which catered to convenience, and they eventually ended up losing a great deal of players because others couldn't either compete (let alone new players) or they got bored. (Talk about a thankless job, I would never do it again).
Most of these arguments are predictable, so I don't bother to make it an endless circle where I explain the same things over and over. (Next comment would be "you haven't explained anything or "I don't care about pvp")
So while I could sit here and explain how adding more skills to each template such as a sampire would cause imbalance, I do expect those in favor of the idea to do their own homework to explain why we should be doing this outside of "convenience".
As far as balance now we will use a mage and a dexer for example. The trade off here is that a mage can cast with delayed time (about 2 seconds for higher damage spells)with a 100% of it landing with a successful cast, where as a dexer can swing as fast as 1.25 seconds which chances to miss with a potentially higher damage rate.
With more skills you can essentially combine the two, and if you recall back and think of those who were casting flamestrike and using a halberd were going around instantly killing people. Of course, this particular example isn't likely but with 840 skill and jewelry and equipment potential you could be running around with 1000 skill points.
Who wants to fight a tank mage that jumps off a bane dragon and nails you with an explosion ai?
