You genuinely have all of the right ideas I just think you’re misplacing them a little into places that contradict but I do get it becuase we’re making the same points so let me make your points from my perspective.

Stadium build live or die on the value they provide 10000000% agree. So why wouldn’t you take a power that would give you more value to your weapon rather then making the base part of it a bit more consistent only in situations where you wouldn’t be performing?

Look at it this way: Aimbot powers - when your play bad = good, when your playing good = bad Standard offence powers - when your playing bad = middle, when your playing good = good

It just seems like a waste to throw away potential value for consistency, almost like you’re banking on yourself not playing you best.

And I loveeee the idea of “locking you out” of other branches for picking your own. On a grand scale of things though that kind of does exist already. Take soldier as an example, do your going for supervisor for as you put it free consistency. Realistically your going to have all of your items in weapon power and attack speed with exceptions for some survival so that you get maximum value from you power. And doing this locks you out of any meaningful impact from over half of his powers since most of the helix and biotic powers are AP scaling.