Trade Skills are now "Professions"

[Jarulf]

As someone playing mostly solo, joining random groups now and then, this is not that great news. It certianly makes the game not just harder but far less enjoyable, and there really aren't that many good combinations to get. Sure, it seems silly one should be able to max most skills as one get to higher level, but a solution to that is that once you start to get more trade skills, the cost for each level increases. So, instead of paying, say 75 points for a level, you pay 150 (or whatever) if it is your 4th (or 5th or whatever) trade skill. That way one can still focus on a few and have some others as support at lower level. That is what I do and love.

By the way, when is next patch? I will be gone a week for diving and would hate it to happen then. On ther other hand, I don't want to skip skills if it still takes weeks.