Guild Wars 2

It was in GW1? Why no GW2? You had a set skill line you could just outright buy from a vendor with ingame money. To get the elite/kitten skills you needed to do some effort like… get to the town where it was, or find the boss to cap the skill, THEN you could run around and wave your Echo/SS necro like a baws.

Have each weapon have a fixed set of skills they get (Enough to get you going). Then as you progress say (just for an example) level 20 you unlock a new tier of skills. They progressively get more skill based but have a larger effect (not literally but you get it). Example, Hundred Blades is a starter skill. You just hit the button and watch the numbers fly. You get to level 20 and you unlock a new tier of that skill IDK kungkittensuper awesome happy time Blades annnnd it does generally the same thing buuuuut you have now a combo whirling effect (just go with Flail combo for now). Thus making the skill canceled a larger penalty but using it correctly gives a better payoff.

And this style of tier progression will carry over to other classes/races to give a bit more skill into the game and rewarding leveling up a bit more while allowing players to explore more option without just dumping everything you have on them all at once and say have a nice day nub.

It would make the game more interesting and (as I love to experiment with stuff in this game) more skill based rather then just spamming your 1 skill and hoping for the best with the others.

To add onto this but since I am falling asleep here, I will make this short. Have the difference weapon skills have skill bars for them. You invest in them to make each one more powerful but you cannot dump them into all of them. Basically speccing the weapon to your liking. As you spec into the skill of that weapon you unlock the previously unlocked skills with that weapon skill.

Example Hundred Blades tier 2 level. You need to invest.. say.. 2 point into it to actually use that new tier of Hundred Blades.

Give us a secondary profession for PvE. Then let us mix the weapons we can use and the weapon skills.

The game would gain over 9000% more variation!