For example when you unequip a unique with +skill bonuses in order to replace it with the same item with better rolls. Right now you have to manually reinvest your skill points in this situation.
It would be a nice quality of life improvement if this was handled automatically. Whenever you lose bonus points to skills, the game should remember which nodes were removed and re-enable them whenever the skill bonuses come back.
If you were to make any manual changes to the skill tree(s) after having lost skill bonuses, the game should just discard the info on which nodes had been removed.
That happens in offline. You get a red flash on the removed nodes.
It’s not permanent though. It flashes for a few seconds and that’s all. I agree that it should be permanent until you assign a point anywhere.
Some of the best gear in the game gives +skills, and the way it is now if I unequip my +skills item and later reequip it (or like the op mentioned replace it with a similar or better +skills item) I need to reallocate the same points I had before.
Things like weapons with +skills (which I tend to play around with a lot and check things like tooltip damage, etc.) or the Tyrant’s Skull which I unequip for example to test damage at training dummies without the minion, cause me to respec the very same points again and again (eventually also making mistakes…).
There really needs to be some mechanism that the game remembers the points we specced until we explicitly despec them. Something along the lines that the game remembers where the points I lost were allocated and when entering the skill screen I can choose to restore my previous allocations.
Yep, this has always been majorly annoying, and continues to be. It makes sense that the skill nodes removed are deterministic and not simply the last ones entered. But having to open the skill screen (or forgetting to do so!) every time you move an item to the forge, upgrade an existing piece, etc., is lame.
