Larian Studios Forums Divinity - Original Sin Divinity - Original Sin - General How skills should have been done.

One of my bigger gripes about the game is the skill system and how the combat and social skills are intermingled. This leads to a situation where to be good at social skills you have to sacrifice combat ability. Considering you cannot advance in the game without defeating the enemies, but you can advance being socially inept, it leads to the outcome of mostly ignoring non-combat skills. This also leads to being forced to carry around untold amounts of gear with a bonus to said non-combat skills to fudge it when needed.

This is just a poor design from the players stand-point. It just does not feel fun having to worry about stat gear in your bag. swapping it out every couple minutes is not exciting at all either.

The combat and non-combat skills should be on separate tables.

When you level up you should gain separate skill points to spend on each table.

For instance on level up you gain 1/2/3 combat skill points and 1/2/3 non-combat skill points.

Then a character can still be fully functional in combat while having a social specialty as well. Are they a talker, a thief, or a crafter? It adds a dynamic to the character design where you get to feel the character performs a secondary role.

Then the items with bonuses to non-combat skills could be removed and it would resolve much of the save-scumming the game requires.

Anyhow, I have taken to using a save editor just so i can toss my guys social and crafting skills so i dont need to carry around excessive amounts of skill gear. I just do not find that dynamic of the game interesting or fun.

I cannot imagine many people out there actually enjoy the save-scumming to get perfect bonus gear for non-combat abilities or having to constantly swap things around.



i like the game, but this is one of those things that is just broken.

if you dont think so just look at the sheer number of people who plant a henchman in sanctuary just for crafting purposes. this directly points out how many people dislike being forced to use their skill points on non-combat abilities or having to carry tons of extra skill gear.