Originally Posted by Janju
Yes i understand that, but weither you buy skills and learn them or not in DOS you've wasted points to get to the requirement of your wanted skill.


Huh? No you haven't. More powerful skills have higher requirements, whether than means increased character level, or 6 points into the Fire Magic skill, it's still a gate which is there for balance purposes.


Originally Posted by Janju

The problem is, before you didn't already find the book "Ice Blast" you don't know that it exists and after you find it, you probably have the wrong skills skilled for it.

Concerning pre-requirements and skill trees, i think it depends on how the skill system is designed. DOS doesn't have to use trees. Larian can think up whatever they want as long as its visual and helps me understand what's going on it's ok imho. I think we both agree on that.


Agreed, we should know what skills are available. There could be possible exceptions for secret skills and secret trees that have special/story requirements to learn - but those should be rare exceptions.


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By forcing players to put a lot of points into the same attribute which both is required for higher level spells and at the same time boosts the strength of this class spells is not optimal imho. Basically if i put all my skills in a single magic school i will do extrem damage which is either imba or worthless (when encountering an entity immune to that magic school or has magic shield against it). Binary choices aren't good.


This depends on a lot of things which may change once Larian's break is over and they make adjustments to the skill system. Specifically, it depends on how many ability points you get per character level, what bonus points you get for higher primary stats, and how many ability points it costs to increase the ability's level.

I don't think it's as big a crisis as you do, though. If someone specs an all-fire mage, to the exclusion of all other forms of attack/defense, then it's their own fault if they end up not being able to do much against fire-absorbing enemies.

Even so, it's still not binary: they can have other options, like using a second school of magic (even if it isn't as strong as their primary), supporting their partner who does the work, or hiring a companion that has attacks or spells that they do not have, or using the Summoning Magic school and getting an element that can attack enemies who are immune to fire.