QoL for the game

[ArtCrusader]

• Switching an item that has the same amount of +# Levels to a skill should result in no points being removed from the respective skill
• Removing an item that has +# Level of a skill or switching in an item that has less +# Level of a skill should result in the last points allocated to be removed, not random ones
• Opening a portal before finishing the echo, then finishing the echo and leaving means you are being taken back to The End of Time instead of the timeline you started the echo in, resulting in no rewards

[Llama8]

@ArtCrusader

• Removing an item that has +# Level of a skill or switching in an item that has less +# Level of a skill should result in the last points allocated to be removed, not random ones

The first one is weird bu this won’t happen because the game doesn’t remember the order in which you take nodes. Instead they have an algorithm that removes specific nodes based on the shape of the tree.

[Soylentgreen25]

Is there any reason the game couldn’t store the information about which order you took the skills in though? I mean I know it currently uses the algorithm system but it’s unintuitive and if they could change it I think it would make a lot more sense.

[XLVI_carpo]

It’s to prevent abuse. Else you could manipulate a skill to have the last point altering the skill and swapping items for fast spec changes.

Take Lightning blast for example:

You could clear Echos with chain Lightning and swap the gear right before the boss to get a free skillpoint to skill Convergence to make it a single target boss killer.

This is prevented by not choosing the last points you put in.

[Soylentgreen25]

I guess I kind of see the logic to this but it feels to me at least that it creates a problem to solve one that doesn’t really exist. Swapping gear is undoubtedly pre-easy but since there is no real ranked mode that prioritizes swapping between packs of mobs and bosses that it isn’t a big deal. Currently most bosses you face will be the Shade or 3rd Quest echo. You could go swap passive skills to maximize single target if you wanted to before tackling those bosses. I doubt most would bother since it’s not generally hard enough to warrant that level of min-maxing

I can’t remember how Diablo 2 tackled this with their skill gear but I know in PoE you can weapon swap or gem swap to enable this so I question if it would really even be abuse if you were able to do this.