To be fair though, there was certain builds that were clearly more powerful than the others. For instance, in the early days of UO everyone was an archer, everyone that was good anyway. If you didn't run with a heavy x bow and 15-20 GH potions you weren't winning any fights.
As time progressed the classes changed, 7x tank mages were all the rage for quite a while, if you weren't running this template you would get blown the frack up.
So while UO did offer an incredible amount of options as far as customization, it wasn't completely innocent. There was a lot of cookie cutter, flavour of the month builds and there still is to this day. I think the deal with UO is that it was a lot of fun for people who didn't figure it out. As far as customization goes though, compared to current and past games, UO still had the most...
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