What happens if you restat a character who used skillbooks?

[VoiD]

just wondering if you get equal stat points as if you had leveled the skill normally, or if the skillbook extra point is just lost

[Dawnsteel420]

depending on when you learned the book. if it was to learn a rank 1 skill your loss is nothing, but if you use it on a rank 9 skill thus bumping it to 10 that would cost 6, you lose the 6 points never to retain that 10 skill for the cost of zero becomes only a rank 1 learned book. since all skill are reverted to zero. you COULD have learned this by just saving and reloading......

[Radiac]

You get the skill points that the book gave you, but not the book. At least that's how it worked like 2 patches ago, and I haven't seen any changes listed about it since then, but I might have missed that, if there was an update.

This creates some potential exploitable strategies whereby you might, for instance, make a guy with Weapon Modding, Armor Modding, and Animal Whisperer, read those books to get level 10 in each of those skills, then respec him into other skills, using the points gotten from the books in other areas.

On the other hand, if you had read the secret unlocked skill book D1ck Markowitz's STEALTH SQUAD to unlock the first rank of the secretly unlocked skill Combat Shooting then that skill will be lost forever if you later respec that guy, because the book unlocks the FIRST point of the skill, and it's gone. You will not be able to respec anyone into that skill, whether they originally had it before the respec or not.