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Check out Alpha Two Announcements here to see the latest Alpha Two news and update notes.
Our quickest Alpha Two updates are in Discord. Testers with Alpha Two access can chat in Alpha Two channels by connecting your Discord and Intrepid accounts here.
Thank you for bringing back the "skill tree"!
I don't know about you guys but the "skill tree" is something I'm most excited about. I longed for a good "skill tree" as one would his first lover. They already had me hooked but now I'm overhyped.
Are you guys as hyped about "skill tree" as I am?
Are you guys as hyped about "skill tree" as I am?
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I am looking forward to seeing more details.
Sounds good so far.
Especially if weapon, armour can be attuned to different skill tree options.
I'm hoping it allows for a lot of variety in your build like the old RO skill trees, rather than the "you can wind up as one of 3 subclasses" style ala WoW.
I'd like to see the AA system from EQ implemented. So at level 40 you can stop your levelling xp and do alternative advancement, you'd have basic ones, such as increasing core stats, but then class specific ones too, making everyone slightly different.
Skill allocation just controls power distribution then (efficiency), rather than outright power.
Personal flavour kind of thing.
You would of course require at least one point in any previous branch.
I would of course like to see counter branches that were alternate branches.
We have a three way branch in artesan anyway.
Also, the developers claim that there will be 64 available combinations (8*8). However, that includes combinations where your main and secondary class are the same. Will this be a thing I wonder? I could definitely see merit to allowing for specialization instead of hybridization, so long as many (but probably not all) hybrid classes are still viable a fair amount of the time.
I really hope that we will be able to level up each of the 8 trees on a single character such that making alts just for the sake of trying other classes is unnecessary.
@cruseyd For the adventuring class, I believe it's one skill tree. The secondary class is not something you've seen in other games. What they plan to do is have the secondary class add flavor to the primary class. You won't get a secondary skill tree (maybe), but what you will get are option(s) to augment your primary class abilities.
An example would be a fighter with a cleave skill. When they choose their 2nd class as mage, that cleave skill may have options to augment with "fire cleave" or "ice cleave" etc. If you choose a 2nd class as fighter again (double down on the same class), your cleave augments might be "wide cleave" or "cross cleave". That's why the idea is 8*8 = 64 :).
@Rune_Relic Yup. I got a good feeling it will be a distribution type skill tree, my favorite!
Converting this system to skill trees for class abilities seems to support this philosophy. If you choose to go down one specific path to unlock the highest tier skills it shouldnt be possible to do so for other other paths. There has to be a trade-off, otherwise in time everyone will have all the highest tier skills unlocked which ruins build diversity. It would be cool if you encounter some mages that specialize in close ranged AoE spells while others focus on long range single targets spells for example.
I hope the secondary class augmentations gives in-depth and meaningful effects. The entire second class becomes a cosmetic flavor if it just adds X dmg from element Y. I'm very curious in which way Cleric and Tank as secondary class augments the primary skills. Seems like those would be the perfect secondary classes for pvp and solo builds if the augmentations improve surviviablity.
Hopefully we get a taste of what the skill system looks like soon, I cannot wait to start theorycrafting some unique builds!
"Hopefully we get a taste of what the skill system looks like soon, I cannot wait to start theorycrafting some unique builds!"
I feel you man!
For the adventuring class, I believe it’s one skill tree. The secondary class is not something you’ve seen in other games. What they plan to do is have the secondary class add flavor to the primary class. You won’t get a secondary skill tree (maybe), but what you will get are option(s) to augment your primary class abilities.
An example would be a fighter with a cleave skill. When they choose their 2nd class as mage, that cleave skill may have options to augment with “fire cleave” or “ice cleave” etc. If you choose a 2nd class as fighter again (double down on the same class), your cleave augments might be “wide cleave” or “cross cleave”. That’s why the idea is 8*8 = 64 :).
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That list of options for augments is also a skill tree. You're augmenting with skills from the secondary class, like Teleport and Invisibility.