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Should I take skills to Level 8?


Jeremiah
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In-game text and the forums here talk about big bonuses to skills if you improve them to Level 7 and Level 8. Do those big bonuses continue as you stack items and specializations (the +1's you get at levels 5, 15, 25), or are skills effectively capped at 8?

 

In other words, if I take Natalie's Firebolt skill to level 8, and I've specialized in the left ("attack") column 3 times, and I get the robe that grants a +2 to Firebolt, is her effective Firebolt skill 13? Does she receive the "+4 levels of damage" bonus 7 times (once each for levels 7-13)?

 

That seems too massive a bonus (+28 levels of damage?!), but to do otherwise means that players aren't warned that they're wasting skill points.

 

Or maybe bonuses from specialization and items provide only +1 level, and only buying skill level 7 and 8 provides +4 levels, so the Natalie above calculates damage with a skill level of 19 (13 levels, +3 for level 7 bonus, +3 for level 8 bonus).

 

I just want to be sure I'm not wasting precious skill points. Thanks!

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Originally Posted By: Ayropix
So is there absolutely no bonus to taking something like daze / charm to 8. No reduction in resists or longer duration? Wonder why we can even take the skill to 8 then...?


My thoughts exactly on Charm...

I actually didn't care for either of the spells. Daze was somewhat useful in certain spots but I gave up when it got resisted all the time and I would have just rather blasted someone with fire and killed one guy. I ended up respecing this skill and taking it only to level 6 while I gained more skill points to put in the middle column. Not sure exactly how i feel on the skill point trees. They really want to make you feel like you're customizing your character but really you only have a pick from cookie cutter choices and some of the choices aren't even ones you want to pick.
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