Only 4 skillsets at creation now?

[Headstrong]

Heya peeps. I just decided to try this game out again after stepping away from gaming for a while to focus on life. I wanted to start fresh, so I deleted my old characters and decided to make a new one, only to see a very limiting selection of only four skillsets at character creation.

Screenshot of selection: http://i.imgur.com/Mos2Dmm.png

Did something happen? Did previously available skillsets become more exclusive for some reason? Is there some obvious way to access the full list that I'm just somehow overlooking? Clarification on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

[LordAziki]

There are only 4 you can choose from the start, but you can choose any skill set as your second and third as you level up.

[neoVictrix]

Augenstein is correct.

Originally the classes we could choose as a starting class were Battlerage, Sorcery, Archery, Vitalism, and Occultism. With the 3.0 update Occultism was removed from the initial class selection.

Personally it's a good change as well - Occultism has alwasy been more of a supportive skill tree when compared to the other initial choices, and just doesn't make sense to have that early on.

[neoVictrix]

Originally posted by FroZenRC:

Don't you forget about Shadowplay :(
As it was also a starting class before 3.0 but it makes perfect sense why both Shadowplay and Occultism are no longer selectable from the start

Ah right, I thought I had forgotten something. Occultism and Shadowplay aren't in the initial skill selection.

[Withdemon]

Do they still have Witchcraft class?
I never played the game, but saw on Wiki page that Witchcraft was a class at some point.

Also, are there any summoning classes? :D

[neoVictrix]

Originally posted by Withdemon:

Do they still have Witchcraft class?
I never played the game, but saw on Wiki page that Witchcraft was a class at some point.

Also, are there any summoning classes? :D

Witchcraft is one of the skill trees that is used to create one of the 120 possible classes.

There's no summoning class per se, however Witchraft has a "Summon Fiend" skill, and you're able to make use of a battle pet during combat (which can be healed with the proper vitalism skill).

[Withdemon]

Gotcha! Thank you :D