[Spitty]

When AA first came out, it definitely was a system intended to customize one's character to fit the playstyle of the account owner. Reason being, it took a damned long time to get an AA - 4 hours was a decent solo AA, 2.5 hours doing AE groups wasn't bad. If you wanted 50 AA, you invested something like 150 hours to get that and not everyone spent those AA in the same fashion.

Later on, when an AA point was a 15 minute event, people had enough banked to spend them on anything worthwhile and the custom aspect of it was nullified.

I suppose I'm not fundamentally opposed to implementing some AA after a couple years of Velious, but oh boy would the devs need to be careful about what's put in. Apply the wrong set of AA and suddenly a lot of Velious raiding can be locked up with one group.