[Kameron8]

People want more skills by making skills cost less, so they can pick everything in their build. Then they want more skill slots since most don't take GUI/SKI and see it as dump stat; as others have stated, why would you want SKI when you're just using autohits and you can outdamage the enemy's evasion?

What this leads to is to-hit build's main strategy of skill flexibility (balanced because they have to invest in SKI/GUI) becoming a thing for all builds. Why wouldn't you pick a stat spread that's fully tanky, with giant SWA and every skill you want to solve every situation you get into, as opposed to a stat spread that relies on chance to hit things, chance to crit things, less damage since people have more defense than you, less mobility since people can just range you with autohits while you're forced to either move next to them or pick BK specifically for hanging (if you're a melee build, that is)...

Meta builds are becoming too diverse and "do-it-all" with no weaknesses. It's just a matter of mashing rock against rock.

To clarify, I'm heavily biased since I have some dedicated crit builds that can't crit or do more damage than some other non-dedicated autohit builds, so take these words with a grain of salt.

I don't disagree that investing in the prerequisite stats should offer you more flexibility than the 10 Skill Slot, 90 Strength unga-Shaitan.  However, I think it's fair to identify this as a problem when it still feels like you're gouged for slots even when you invest heavily into Skill, and moderately (30 or so) into Will.  You should not be required to take sixty Skill, Will, and Guile to equip a healthy amount of abilities.

In the same vein, you shouldn't get a free pass on having next to no skill slots just because you happened to play classes that don't tax them that much.  But as it currently stands, sometimes you can, and sometimes even having 20-25 slots isn't enough.  I don't think we should be raising the floor universally, I just think the Slot cost of various classes should be normalized.