Lemme start with the disclaimer that I have no say in the final decision and little to no experience with creating/maintaining a pay-for-perks economy.
In an ideal world yeah Crown wouldn't exist. But it does and it's ubiquitous enough th…
Templars overpower you with brute speed and have great curing passives to keep them going. You lock them, they use their lockbreaker, you lock em again and accomplish your instakill before their breaker comes off cooldown.
For various reasons I wouldn't recommend basing your characters around a Divine. Or at least don't expect much personal interaction if you do choose to.
Follow a God if you like Their flavour/tenets/other players in there, not with the ex…
@Axius Tattoo stamps are actually the better investment. Since you can ink with no restrictions and touching tree has no bal/eq cost associated with it, tattoo stamps…
Cabalist and Sciomancer definitely need crown to be used to their maximum potential. But the same is also true for Ascendril, Shaman, and Luminary as well. There's nothing that inherently makes Praenomen any more investment-needy than those classes.…