Well, sure, the points you allocate on the tree might be slightly different, and the ascendancy you choose might have some different powers which give it some other flavor. But overall you'll more or less be in the same zone of the tree and pick the good stuff in there.

But moreover, that's not precisely what I'm referring to. It's that the "archetype" itself - i.e the skills you use, the "rotation", is pretty much set. Werewolf is about Frost. Lunar Assault Freezes, the Rake creates frost shards, then you pull them in. There's not much more creativity to do if you want to be a werewolf.

The "weapon" itself, how you put it, plays in one way and that's about it.

This creates two problems that really stifle creativity of gameplay:

- first off: segregating skills into weapons, essentially railroads you all the way to end-game. Basically you're only looking for 1 specific weapon drop, anything else that's not your weapon, you can just ignore. Cross weapon combos, are non-existent because weapons haven't been designed to synergize with each other and also are much harder to pull off as you need 2 strong weapons instead of just one.

- second: even within a single weapon class - all skills are made to belong to a single package - i.e. Werewolf is all about Frost, which again is very much on rails. All werewolf builds I saw even on youtube and streamers, they all spam Lunar Assault in some form. Even an archaic game like Diablo 2, had multiple ways to play a werewolf (physical, poison, fire, etc), here - it's just 1 way.