Fusionstrike
01-03-2013, 02:38 AM
When leveling up a new character, I realized how obscure the skill point use cap is. I'm talking about the limit that skills can only be raised to a max of 6 until the player passes level 65. There's nowhere I can see that describes this limitation. The only feedback the player gets is a message saying "not high enough level" to raise a skill if below 65. However, the user has no way of knowing that it's level 65 at which this cap will be removed. I think there should be some text in the description that says what's going on. For example, in the "next rank" section that says what the skill will do if raised one point, it should add the text "unavailable until Level 65" if the player is below 65. That would make it clear what's going on.
Although this brings up the point: why have this limitation at all? I mean, it doesn't really make much sense to limit things this way. It seems to me skills should be allowed their full range of 9 at any level. This would create a lot more variety of build possibilities, with some players specializing in a few skills while others spread their points out to be more general purpose. I realize this would likely have more impact on PvP than PvE, but I think the variety it would allow would really be worth it. You could see a lot more strategies and counter-strategies, interesting builds, etc. Since STS is not ever going to introduce more and different skills, this is the next best thing we can hope for as far as creating variety in play styles.
Although this brings up the point: why have this limitation at all? I mean, it doesn't really make much sense to limit things this way. It seems to me skills should be allowed their full range of 9 at any level. This would create a lot more variety of build possibilities, with some players specializing in a few skills while others spread their points out to be more general purpose. I realize this would likely have more impact on PvP than PvE, but I think the variety it would allow would really be worth it. You could see a lot more strategies and counter-strategies, interesting builds, etc. Since STS is not ever going to introduce more and different skills, this is the next best thing we can hope for as far as creating variety in play styles.