is there a way to get more skill slots?

[BlackViper]

when i go to skills i just have 9 slots.. is there a way to get more or i always from now on have to get rid of one to replace it with another? not talking about the skill bar while running round on the map but the actuall skill page where you also can put in these stones on each one of them.

[Liquid Courage]

Gemling Legionaire (Mercenary ascendancy) gives you a couple more slots I believe, aside from that I don't think so.

[Medicles]

There is no way to get more, why would you even need all the current slots? You only have limited time in your actions, especially against bosses, you arent going to use 9 different active skills, you arent even going to use 6 but more like 3 at most and the rest is for passives.

[ChuTheMan]

Originally posted by Liquid Courage:

Gemling Legionaire (Mercenary ascendancy) gives you a couple more slots I believe, aside from that I don't think so.

there is a type of ring that gives 1 more skill slot too.

[ChuTheMan]

Originally posted by Medicles:

There is no way to get more, why would you even need all the current slots? You only have limited time in your actions, especially against bosses, you arent going to use 9 different active skills, you arent even going to use 6 but more like 3 at most and the rest is for passives.

Gemling legionaire can get 3 more skill slots, + 2 extra from rings if you equip 2 rings that gives another slot each.

but yeah most people wont use that many skills, maybe if you play some kind of hybrid class that uses both melee and ranged or someone with high amount of spirit using a lot of passive spirit skills, but other than that. I dont see many "Pure" weapon type classes using more.

[BlackViper]

Originally posted by Medicles:

There is no way to get more, why would you even need all the current slots? You only have limited time in your actions, especially against bosses, you arent going to use 9 different active skills, you arent even going to use 6 but more like 3 at most and the rest is for passives.

3 ?
i use 8 Skills at all times, None of them has cool downs for monk except 1.
and 1 passive. my build dont work if i take away those skills.

[BlackViper]

Originally posted by ChuTheMan:

Originally posted by Medicles:

There is no way to get more, why would you even need all the current slots? You only have limited time in your actions, especially against bosses, you arent going to use 9 different active skills, you arent even going to use 6 but more like 3 at most and the rest is for passives.

Gemling legionaire can get 3 more skill slots, + 2 extra from rings if you equip 2 rings that gives another slot each.

but yeah most people wont use that many skills, maybe if you play some kind of hybrid class that uses both melee and ranged or someone with high amount of spirit using a lot of passive spirit skills, but other than that. I dont see many "Pure" weapon type classes using more.

ah true.. i use a monk.. both ice and electric.. both close range, and long range.. so i use up 8 out of 9 slots lol.

[Duskguy]

Only a level 20 some Sorceress, but with dual elemental spec, I also use up all the slots. So it's not unheard of to want more slots. I just with the aura buff gem (lvl 10/14 first spirit aura buff) went into a seperate section rather than the active use slots.

Edit: googling the past couple days, I've come to the above answer. Merc ascendant for +3, or rings with +1. Otherwise, have to hope GGG makes some adjistments/balances

[thereaverofdarkness]

edit: I now understand that you can get more skill slots pretty easily with unset rings as well as perhaps a handful of other sources. My main concern, then, is that unset rings should start showing up a lot sooner and more frequently. My highest level character is in the upper 50s and I've never found an unset ring, only managed to purchase one from a merchant one time in the level 40s range.

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WDYM nobody uses more than three skills? Sure, a lot of you only use three skills, but we don't all play the same way. I'd like to have access to 20+ skills personally, but I feel like we really need more than 9 skill slots if we have 8 active skill hotkey slots and we're given enough spirit to use 2 or 3 passive skills without even getting a spirit bonus. I'm going to have a hard time building any character who doesn't need more skill slots.

My current main uses a bow and his primary skill rotation is Lightning Rod + Lightning Arrow. I have Voltaic Mark for clearing out thick groups of enemies, Conductivity curse for enemies with lightning resistance or just for boss fights, and Electrocuting Arrow as another support during boss fights. As a backup, I had Poisonburst Arrow (with armor stripping) and Vine Arrow, which have proven useful on plenty of occasions whenever stuff is weak to chaos damage, enemies with energy shield, trying to slow down enemies, breaking armor, etc. Vine Arrows are especially nice against Boulder Ants. And lastly, I put Escape Shot on middle-click because it's useful when enemies group around me or sometimes when an enemy is vulnerable to freezing and the chill meter is going up fast.

I would like to use the passive skills Herald of Thunder, Ghost Dance, and Lingering Illusion but due to spirit limitations I can only choose two of them at the current time. But even having two of them means one of the above skills must be removed, and now I have an empty hotkey slot which does nothing.

Literally unplayable.

[BishopDPS]

Found an amulet that gives extra skill slots. U can use poe trade and look up the filter Skills have +# to Limit

[DeejLe]

Dude, persistent skills are really powerful and eat up your skill slots. The meta is running two heralds at least. You've got cast on condition, curses, and marks. that's 5 already and you only get 9 slots by default. You'll also want to run a defensive persistent skill. So that makes 6.

Originally posted by Medicles:

There is no way to get more, why would you even need all the current slots? You only have limited time in your actions, especially against bosses, you arent going to use 9 different active skills, you arent even going to use 6 but more like 3 at most and the rest is for passives.