D IV, Can you max skill tree?

General Discussion
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i dont want to spend a single points in a skill, i dont need
thats just not the genre
you have to manage your points, not just find them

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D2 leveling was not amazing, it was mostly a chore people tried to minimize whenever possible. Almost nobody (myself included) leveled by just playing through the content, we had other people carry us through a difficulty to unlock key waypoints then leveled by joining baal runs (mostly run by bots).

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Really? that was D1… And in many games you need to spend a point (or many points) on a skill to unlock the next tier of skills.

It is ok if you don’t like that but it isn’t accurate to tell that it isn’t the genre.

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if you need to spend the point, to unlock the next skill, you actually need it
but if you just find skillpoints on the ground, to unlock something that isnt even your build, its just ridiculous

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You need the point not the skill.

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In D3, through enough effort and farming paragons…

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I disagree. I never used other players to help me play through Diablo 2, and I never ran into a part that was particularly hard.

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its the same thing
and thats not even the topic
its about, you should not have everything maxed out in the end by somehow…randomly dropping skill points from monsters!
points are gained by levels and when you are max level, you were able to max maybe 1 or 2 more skills than you have in your skillbar
or not even all in your skillbar thats just how it rolls

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And how do you know it will? Don’t know the drop rate they will have. Did you play D1? It wasn’t that easy to max the skills.

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i dont care about the drop rate
there shouldnt be any chance to drop skillpoints

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I’m sorry for you, guy. But i don’t play like that.
Most of time i play baal runs is to farm some respect items or gems. But even this is better than D3 leveling…

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Those respecs comes at a cost. I think most people arguing for limiting skill respecs would be fine with it having a substantial cost, and not only be possible through a reroll.

People who hate choices probably couldnt find a worse genre to play.
I dont really buy the claim either. People generally cante hate too many options,leading to analysis paralysis. But we are speaking about decisions that actually matters then. Not decisions that have no substantial impact on anything, in your leisure time entertainment.

We dont have that authority obviously. Blizzard does. Having meaningful choices makes for a better gameplay experience and better content balancing (cant spec optimize for everything). It makes perfect sense for Blizzard to limit respecs.
Complete freedom is bad game design.

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Would people be open to a compromise? More like a D2 Philosophy of There are set ways to earn Skill points (via quest rewards) and If they feel there are not enough skill points end game, they can always add more? I feel this keeps the ranged aspect out of it, and takes away the issue of farming all skill points.

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yea i mean there are reward skillpoints in D2 as well
this is just fine
but they have to be limited and ofc they can add more
but it may just not be possible, to max out every single skill
thats just not right

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Would not be a skill tree if a player can unlock all skills. Bad idea… we need to make choices instead of everyone hav8ng same.

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thats our point all the time xD
but those d3 casual fanbois…

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This. I seriously doubt Blizzard will be foolish enough to let the skill books be tradeable between accounts.

Max your skills without even playing the game? Yeah no.

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It is not clear to me how it will work.

  1. The books will be bound (it would be wierd if they weren’t).
  2. The drop rate won’t be high.
  3. We will get skill points per level to unlock and level our skills.
  4. It is not clear if we will be able to unlock skills with the books: this would limit what we can do with them.
  5. It is not clear to me if we can use the books on any skill or the skill must reach a specific level (maybe max).
  6. I guess the skills will have a cap (and from there only the bonus of items could level it more). Could be a specific numer and from there can level it with books to a second cap. Or can level the skills with a combination of books and skill points.

This are just a few points.

For me, until they give some more info it isn’t clear if it will be a good or a bad thing.

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The same can be said with your assertion, good sir.

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As far as I know they’re trying to bring back the superior system from D1, the superior game.