I have to say, this is one of the best posts I've read in a long time. Wonderfully written and eloquently presented. I hope that your ideas make it into the final release. In fact, I hope I get to see a glimpse of this mechanic in the beta. I've also been hoping that there are exotic foci. Extremely rare subclasses with devastating abilities and upgrades to compliment those abilities. We've only been shown 2 subclasses per class out of what may be hundreds. At least, I would surely hope that there's more than just those few subclasses. If it were like this. You could carry multiple subclasses around and swap depending on the situation. It'd be just like swapping weapons, only instead of firepower, it's magic. The new subclass would change your super (or at least some aspects about it) Of course, the game would need to restrict you from scrapping your first subclass, no matter how many else you have. So you would always have something else to fall back on. In addition, these subclasses should be extremely rare to find, no matter it's rarity. Making this reward truly rewarding once you acquire it. An example of its exotic effect being: [quote]Once you acquire level (x) your super charges twice as fast[/quote] Things like that, aside from the actual super you get, there would be and increased amount of upgrade power making the max level exotic subclass much more dangerous than just any other subclass.