So I had tried out a +2 skeletal mages on a chest. I added the two points to skills I wanted (i was already max level 20) and when I removed the gear it removed two points from a node that I didn’t want to be removed…
Is that intended? … why wouldn’t it just remove the two points from the gear that I added… Now I need to respec two hole levels just to get my original build back?
If you could deterministically add and remove points (by unequipping an item and re-equipping an item), you could use this to your advantage. (reallocate those 2-4 skill points you just regain from the gear un/reequip)
Without giving very specific examples, there are some skills that have key nodes, which turn a AoE skill into a singletarget skill for example.
With any way of determinsitically removing points, you could play an entire echo with this AoE Skill, then unequip your +skill item and respec those 2 gained points into the singletarget node for the boss.