Rift gives the player a set of souls to chose from that can be combined in different ways. This lets the give partial customization where they linit the player with what each soul can do.
How could this be done in reverse?
The player chooses a type of attack (say charged bolt), element and effect? The game limits damage and such based on player level and player input on cost etc. (Hmm, elder scrolls? ).
Distinguish between charged and channeled. Charged spends a moment to gather energy then does a larger effect, channeled continously does a smaller effect. Wirh channeled it doesn't matter if you are interrupted because you don't loose anything. With charged you risk loosing that larger effect (or if dev is kind, you simply get a timepenalty).
Easy (well, easiest) to do for mages.
For rogues i am curious about tiered buildup / attackpatterns. You start with A which lets you do B which lets you do C or D. How many on lowest level? 3? How many tiers? How many different attacks? Maybe have it that A also unlocks tier two of A? So the player can choose to go A-A2-A3 etc? Or have A give an effect? That effect is needed for B but also enhances A to sort of A level 2? Say A enhances accuracy, B enhances speed, C enhances damage. So the player can choose to go for more and more accuracy (enhancing crit%) or switch between the three.
