Overlapping skilltrees make a lot of sense to me. Someone who excels as the sneaky stuff can reliably make an excuse for infiltration, assassination, general spycraft and the like. It would be arguable that they could have a degree of magical ability to be able to aid them in that regard: Eavesdropping sorts of stuff, or glamour kits, or whatever.
It always makes me cock my head when someone's a master fighter and also a powerful mage and also super good at being undetected, but my biases come from tabletop settings where you're not really able to do everything on your sheet effortlessly, at least not until you're long established. That's a challenging concept to establish in an MMO, though - Random Walk Up doesn't know if you've been RPing a long, grudging storyline since the 1.0 beta or just a newcomer claiming you've got a rich history.
I suppose I'd consider someone "too skilled" when they have a defined archetype as a concept, and then also a half-dozen other things that are completely unrelated that they're also great at.
It always makes me cock my head when someone's a master fighter and also a powerful mage and also super good at being undetected, but my biases come from tabletop settings where you're not really able to do everything on your sheet effortlessly, at least not until you're long established. That's a challenging concept to establish in an MMO, though - Random Walk Up doesn't know if you've been RPing a long, grudging storyline since the 1.0 beta or just a newcomer claiming you've got a rich history.
I suppose I'd consider someone "too skilled" when they have a defined archetype as a concept, and then also a half-dozen other things that are completely unrelated that they're also great at.
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