[Sawrock]

My ancient, terribly-out-of-date knowledge of the game has left me with the objectively best opinion. The game should not be balanced for 1v1s, there should be dodgies that some people cannot hit reliably and dodgies that suffer from a specific enemy having good enough hit to punish them.

In addition, celerity is best when it has a role other than just damage mitigation. Back in earlier versions, when celerity meaningfully contributed to initiative, dodge was less reliable than tank but came at the benefit of allowing crunch in party compositions. While that did lead people being KO'd early on in the fight, it made a meaningful difference in choosing between dodge and tank. Not that I want to go back to how initiative was before, but it's a thought I've been having.

Skill isn't mandatory. I've had builds where I've put 0 points into skill. I've had builds with 40 scaled skill and able to reliably hit opponents. I've had builds where I pump skill out the wazoo and I crit for days.