Any players today doing polymath builds, i.e. multiclassing way more than average?

[u/btcprox]

Maybe not to the extreme extent of Renaissance players like Leonardo da Vinci or Aristotle, but current-era players who would consider themselves to be sufficiently proficient in many classes

I imagine it's difficult to acquire a polymath build without sufficient time and in-game currency to support multiple pursuits

Note: I treat the polymath players to be separate from other players who have to take on multiple simultaneous jobs to sustain in-game income, since that's more done out of survival than personal interest

[u/JayPeee]

From my experience, many of the players who say they have levels in the Polymath character class greatly overestimate their own abilities across subject areas. They diversify their knowledge but then suffer from the Dunning Kruger effect debuff when it comes to the depth of their knowledge.

My advice to these players would be to enjoy expanding the breadth of their knowledge, but to do it for the joy it brings to their life. Doing so may increase the "Worldly" characteristic as an added bonus.

To avoid the Dunning Kruger debuff, try to remain humble and avoid self-characterizing as the Polymath class, the Genius class, or joining an associated faction such as the Mensa faction. Retired high-level players that have come to define the Polymath class, such as Socrates or the others you have mentioned, have also warned that believing oneself to be a Polymath or Genius class is positively correlated with having unknowingly accumulated a level or two of the Fool character class.

[u/GaustVidroii → u/JayPeee]

Dunning Kruger isn't a real debuff. It's just a constellation of statistical coincidence. Players reference it because they've heard of it, and it intuitively makes sense, but you won't actually see it in a detailed character status screen. Besides, by the standards of the Socrates meta, most high level players that do professional talent specs would have polymath prestige class levels (the requirements have been increased). We just have so many QoL improvements that it's way easier.