PSA: Save your skill points!

[noxteryn]

I wish the game was more open with information regarding skills and skill points. After I got the build I wanted, I stopped needing skill points, so I figured I'd just unlock everything, even the stuff I didn't want or need, since I got so many spare skill points. I spent at least 30 skill points this way. Little did I know, at some point in the main quest you unlock a bunch of new features that were never telegraphed in any way (as in, nothing like those yellow lockpad thingies that say "play more to unlock this"). And those new features require a LOT of skill points. I wish I had known this before spending all my skill points on garbage.

So, new players, if you find yourselves not needing any more skill points, save them!
You'll need them later!

[Adeptus Lebowski]

Thanks for the info mate

[Bassilth]

Thank you, my friend! You are a life saver!

[steven777]

Thanks

[Coca-Cobra]

Thanks!

[Pray For War]

Thanks. But also irritating.

[😎Astran😾]

How many skillpoints required? In which questline - main, Baranor, Blade of Galadriel?

What exactly are those hidden (?) features? I assumed few yellow dots (drake mount unlock, for example) is everything I see.

edit: Character is level 45 and has 0 saved points...

[noxteryn]

Originally posted by Astran:

How many skillpoints required? In which questline - main, Baranor, Blade of Galadriel?

What exactly are those hidden (?) features? I assumed few yellow dots (drake mount unlock, for example) is everything I see.

edit: Character is level 45 and has 0 saved points...

Yeah, that was my point. I thought so too, but there are completely hidden stuff that appear later in Talion's story. Here's a very vague explanation of what happens, without spoiling the story at all:

After you finish Talion's main quest, the skill tree changes a little, and a completely new power is added. There are also various prestige skills that boost your stats (like, gain 2 health points per kill, per skill level), and they are capped at 100 levels each.

[| TajMahBalls |]

Originally posted by noxteryn:

Originally posted by Astran:

How many skillpoints required? In which questline - main, Baranor, Blade of Galadriel?

What exactly are those hidden (?) features? I assumed few yellow dots (drake mount unlock, for example) is everything I see.

edit: Character is level 45 and has 0 saved points...

Yeah, that was my point. I thought so too, but there are completely hidden stuff that appear later in Talion's story. Here's a very vague explanation of what happens, without spoiling the story at all:

After you finish Talion's main quest, the skill tree changes a little, and a completely new power is added. There are also various prestige skills that boost your stats (like, gain 2 health points per kill, per skill level), and they are capped at 100 levels each.

Ehh. Going to try and avoid spoilers but if you did invest into Talions tree before the "event" you would have lost out on about 6 skills points which in all honesty can be earns fairly quickly as once you reach max you can still level up and get skill points.

[Nathan the Dwarven Shark]

Luckily you can still get skill points past level 80 (Via leveling up). You just stay the same level.

"you reach max you can still level up and get skill points." -TagMahBalls

[Boss_CyAn1d3]

nice intel.

i wish it would have been conveyed clearer a bit earlier that one can have only one sub skill active at a time on most base skills.

little upsetting that i cant dominate and get some damn elf shot back... especially since shadow strike takes 2 damn shot to perform

[😎Astran😾]

So I got to the point where you actually need those stashed skillpoints. It doesn't seem important at all because

1) bonus is minuscule and

2) it has diminishing returns so dumping 5 points into a single feature result in increase of characteristics equal to rank 10-ish bonus while your toon is rank 50+