Thank you for this thread.
My biggest concerns right now are big changes to existing classes that make your hundreds, or possibly later even thousands, of hours invested into them ruined over night (a skill reset potion doesn’t always help if the reasons you picked the class in the first place are no longer present), and releasing new classes later (like the several hidden classes that haven’t even been appropriately teased in advance as to what their role is or what to expect) that also ruin builds.
Not every player will have the time, or the ambition, to create 5+ characters. For some players it will take all they have just to level 1 character fully aka their main.
We have 7 ranks right now to play with but if we choose all 7 ranks from the existing classes then we basically screw ourselves out of getting one of the unreleased hidden classes to C3 (depending on max ranks which still hasn’t been reliably communicated), or even being able to mix and match a couple of them. Basically, one of those hidden classes might be exactly what I need for my build to shine. But while IMC is tweaking numbers to perfect the class, the entire userbase is left to speculate as to what role the hidden class will even fill, or what rank it may be available at, etc etc.
Seems silly to allow us to pick up to 7 ranks but have hidden classes released after we’ve already chosen beyond that, basically forcing some users to roll alts even if they lack the time to do so.