I have gone back and played some, Warhammer 40,000 Inquisitor - Martyr and the skill tree has somethings going for it that could be nice.
It even has an area for movement speed, as well as their Path system if expanded on it could be used for the ADA Powers.
As long as you Disregard the damage values and class bases used, just looking at the way it’s setup, I think something like this could be good in D4.
Skills in Warhammer Inquisitor - Martyr
The majority of the passive skill trees is available to all classes.
The table below contains information about all skill trees.
Close Combat - Gives you bonus to melee attacks. - Do a total of 500,000 melee damage. - All classes that specialize in melee combat.
Ranged Combat - Gives you bonus to ranged attacks. - Do a total of 500,000 ranged damage. - All classes that specialize in ranged combat.
Single Target DPS - Modifies how long a given DPS attack, e.g. poisoning, will last. - Available from the beginning. - All Inquisitors who can deal DPS damage.
Area of Effects - Bonus to Area of Effect attacks. - Kill 2,500 Horde-type enemies. Mainly Psykers and Crusaders who can deal Area of Effect damage.
Heat Attacks - Bonus to fire damage. - Blow up 250 explosive tanks. - Mainly Psykers and Crusaders who use grenade launchers.
Damage Over Time - Bonus to toxin damage. - Survive 50 traps. - All classes that specialize in melee combat.
Criticals - Increases a chance to perform a critical hit. - Deal a total of 1,000,000 damage. - For everyone.
Aimed Shots - Increases accuracy and makes sniper rifles more efficient. - Available from the beginning. - Assassin and Crusader,Inquisitors who specialize in using sniper rifles.
Execution - Increases a chance of performing an execution and grants bonuses that activates upon using them. - Kill 5,000 enemies with melee weapons. - Assassin and Crusader - All classes that specialize in melee combat.
Psychic Combat - Adds new combat specializations. - Available from the start - Psyker - Useful for increasing Psyker’s offensive power.
Psychic Debuffs - Unlocks new debuff specializations. - Available form the start Psyker Useful, if you rely on weakening your enemies in combat.
Physical Attacks - Bonus to melee damage. - Kill 50 enemy commanders. - All Useful for all Expertise of these classes.|
Movement - Increases your character’s movement speed. - Available from the beginning. - All who rely on dexterity such as the Assassins.
Suppression - Gives bonuses for keeping Suppression at a certain level. - Complete 25 side missions. - For everyone.
Debuffs - Increases Suppression effects inflicted by the Inquisitor. - Deal 1,000,000 Suppressing damage. - For everyone.
Support - Increases maximum amount of Focus and Adrenaline. - Reach Inquisitor Rank 13. - All Crusader and Assassin Expertise.
Hit Points - Increases maximum amount of health points. - Receive 500,000 Suppression damage. - All Useful for characters who rely on strength such as the Crusader.
Radical Path - Bonus damage and increases a chance to deal critical damage. - Make progress in the main story-line (blocks Puritan Path) - All Every character who puts a greater emphasize on firepower instead of health points.
Puritan Path - Increases health points and grants bonuses to allied squads. - Make progress in the main story-line (blocks Radical Path) - All Characters with small amount of health points.
The System shows main skills on the left side then the Traits or what you get from points on the right.
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Doing it this way lets you see at a glance what skills are open to be selected, as well as the ones you have points in.
On the right is the expanded view if the talents and some of them have different start points so you can specialize it’s function.
EDIT
I could not find a pic of the move speed tree, Ill try to link a screen grab later.
After I logged back in I looked at the way Move Speed skill tree is handled.
This skill tree has two starting points, more ways to customize, I’ll only elaborate on one of them.
First chain starts with
- +2% ms
- 5 damage reduction when moving for 2 sec
- +2% ms
- +2% ms - then a side option of +10% when not in Combat.
back to the main tree. - Immunity to Slow, Stun, Shock and Freeze.
- +2% ms
Then branches off 3 more ways, one leads to the mid point of the skill, - +2% ms
- hits taken reduce the remaining cooldown of skills with at least 1 sec cooldown by % of damage taken by that hit.
This branch leads back to the other start point.
The other two are as follows.
After using a Movement skill 3% damage reduction for 10 Sec stacks 3 times.
3% Crit Chance and +5 Crit Str when no damage taken for 3 sec.
The Immunity takes 5 points to get to not something you may do at low level or 6 points if you want the non-combat speed boost.
So just looking at this half of the move-speed skill tree we can see how it could get some interesting build options going, the bonuses will need to be reworked for the Diablo frame work