How did that skill system make it pass production?

[meiam]

3 Skills? Only 3 active skills per characters and aura ability are also skill even though you don't use them... I'm seriously suposed to juggle action group just because the game is limited to 3 skill at once. Apparently the dev though that terrible UI/control being the main foes of the game was a good idea.

Tell me there's a mod to fix that terrible decision

[Aigle1705]

well, thats how oldschool rpg works, you have to choose, no wollmilchsau, no infinite lvl skyrim ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ :)

n btw you have 4 hotkey bars each character, so actualy 12 active skills.

n keep on playing the perktrees update later on

haters gonna hate, but they are actually pretty close to the sequel

[Keaton]

While I'm not totally fond of the idea, this was already present in the previous games.
Aside from your avatar all of them had only 3 slots for skills. Now its just your avatar included.

[meiam]

Oh well then I guess I have to amend my previous statement:

"How did that skill system make it pass production 3 times!?"

Even warcraft 3, which had a much stronger focus on the RTS than hero, let the hero have 4 skills at once.

And it's not even like you're completly cut off from them, you have to akwardly switch between skill mid battle for, and I stress this part, absolutly no reason whatsoever. If the intent was to force player to use only 3 abilities (terrible idea BTW), then it fail at that since you can still use more than 3. If the point was to let the player use more 3, well it's the most bakward and akward way of doing it.

There seems to be a mod that let the aura spell stay active even after switching (I can't believe that's something that need to be modded).

[Aigle1705]

guess youre way to young to understand what rpg once was all about.
forced to choose n life with your decisions.

no saving n backing up when ever you want.
no infinite skillpoint, useally not even enough for 40% of the perk trees.

so you basiclly complain about everything SF intentionly wantz to be. ;)

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n to be honest these 3 skilltrees per char are still way to large to get more than 3-4 active skills maxed n attribut covered.
on yira ( the elf archer ) i have a single active skill, everything else is passiv.
yet still one of the stronger chars.

[Cowardly Camper]

Yeah, 3 skills is kind of weak, especially if you go full tank. That's 3 auras on your character meaning you don't really have any skills.

In spite of this, you can make a character that's basically walking nearly invulnerable death. Dragon armor, armor aura, resistance aura, and heal aura combined give you 100 resistance to everything and insane healing if you max Con and Will. Throw on the amulet of no negatives and only towers can come close to hurting you.

Next, throw in all brutality, 2 weapons of kill 3 enemies at a time, and the death magic perk that gives your auto attacks silence. GG. The game becomes not worth playing at this point.

Personally, I think Yria is weak. Only things going for her are ranged attacks and healing. Grab Rohen with Isamo's staff instead. Then at least you can add earthquake to your healing and steamroll all the "RTS" stuff.