Why do so many people complain about the balance of the skills in BD and say they want it like in DD? DD's skills were very unbalanced either, the best summon wasnt even in the summoning line of wizards. Some weapon specialties were obviously better than others. And even in DD you had to guess what equipment you're most likely to get since if you specialise in different weapon types you still use only one so you wasted skill points that could have gone into some more useful skills.
Personnaly I think BD's skill system is very good. I admit it's not superbly balanced, but it's ok. My mage was doing great with his different spells. He had the hammer, a air spread missile (can hit the same ennemy multiple times if you're far enough), a fire and earth spell, and some healing capabilities. Against mutiple foes I used hammer to stun them and spammed my spread missile and against one tough ennemy I just stunned him and used my fire&earth spell.
It's a great skill system IMO.
