Animation,May 29 2003, 07:18 AM Wrote:I'm still amazed that people think they will be better off with the new changes. It seems to me that if you feel obligated to pumping lesser skills to help greater ones, and vice versa, but if you otherwise wouldnt have used the lesser ones, you won't be able to pump the other skills as high as you used to. With the experience getting harder after level 70 ... well we just arent going to be as versatile as before.It really depends on the character. Your assessment about sums up the viewpoint of any charatcer that is currently configured to spread points over a wide range of diminishing returns skills along with the primary attacks to get a character build happening. The Barbarian springs to mind.
OTOH, Elemental Druids and Heaven's Fist Paladins are two examples where you can build your characters' primary attacks to their utmost peak by the end of Nightmare and expect no greater gains in Hell until you aquire appropriate +Skills to boost what you've already maxed. This essentially leaves the player in the predicament of doing no better by the end of Hell, than by the start, unless you count added versatility of supplementary skills and stronger defences.
A Sorceress gets around the problem with her Masteries. A Barbarian can invest points in Strength and pick up higher damaging weapons.
This new system allows those 'disadvantaged' characters an opportunity for a smoother ride that will take them through to the end of Hell. We can now do something with those semi-redundant points that either get left or dropped into skills that are seldom, if ever, used. ;)
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