Is there a cap on skills? Can't level up Ballistics for some reason...

[Prawn of Creation]

It has a lock symbol on it, and cannot be selected.

Pic: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3110110142

Anyone knows the reason? Don't remember tutorial saying anything about it, and dug through in-game codex, but found nothing too. Googling also failed.

[kagypoo]

Pretty sure that means you already took it in a previous level up.

[Cutlass Jack]

You can only raise a skill or stat once? That seems counter intuitive.

[Nito]

Originally posted by Cutlass Jack:

You can only raise a skill or stat once? That seems counter intuitive.

You cant spam it AFAIK you can take one again later IIRC but you cant just spam it

[Prawn of Creation]

Originally posted by kagypoo:

Pretty sure that means you already took it in a previous level up.

That I did, one level prior to that one. But yeah, can we only up one stat once? Or is it every other level? So take 1, than we can take anything else, than we can take 1st one again? Did I missed the tutorial? Kinda a big deal, to not mention it 😅

[XelNigma]

TIL spending your stat points on leveling up is now known as spamming.

[Nito]

Considering you can kinda raise skill twice like taking int and machine when it gets every ten that skill also get a bonus so....

[Drake]

You advance in a characteristic 2 times (+5 each) per archetype.

[Cutlass Jack]

Originally posted by Drake:

You advance in a characteristic 2 times (+5 each) per archetype.

Useful info. Thanks.

[Prawn of Creation]

Originally posted by Drake:

You advance in a characteristic 2 times (+5 each) per archetype.

Got it, ty

[Mestrahd]

Originally posted by Drake:

You advance in a characteristic 2 times (+5 each) per archetype.

This should really be mentioned somewhere. Especially when there's a talent (Operative) that only works when you have 100 Perception. I have gotten to 100 in a characteristic a couple of times, but that's on support characters whose other characteristics are all trash, and they've had help through gear and talents.

[Daeron]

You are supposed to buff the character during an encounter somehow, be it by other perks or another characters help, and then this talent is supposed to kick in. At least thats how i take it.

But on the main point i completely agree with you, this should be made very much more clear somewhere in tutorial

[Red Star, Blood Moon]

Originally posted by Drake:

You advance in a characteristic 2 times (+5 each) per archetype.

That is unbelievably stupid

Originally posted by Mestrahd:

Originally posted by Drake:

You advance in a characteristic 2 times (+5 each) per archetype.

This should really be mentioned somewhere. Especially when there's a talent (Operative) that only works when you have 100 Perception. I have gotten to 100 in a characteristic a couple of times, but that's on support characters whose other characteristics are all trash, and they've had help through gear and talents.

This.
So how in the hell are you supposed to get there? Thank God I didn't take that skill and made sure to check first, my first reading of it was get perception to 10 or above, I didn't realize it meant get the bonus to that and get Perception to 100.

This is just so stupid, what this means is that you've got a party of 6 people plus whoever'll be left aboard your ship leveling up 10 times per ring and of those only getting to pick something like once or twice??? So this means that basically EVERYONE becames a master-of-none. Because you're going to be taking that for completely irrelevant skillchecks nobody asked for when I can and should be increasing Idira's Warp Lore or Cassia's Awareness or something.