[2020] Skill Points - Do you think 1 skill point per level is enough?

Max level is 300. IIRC you can max all the skills around level 270 currently.

The only real issue is patience.

It requires level 279 currently to max all skills- 6 points less if you wear a cigar and any single kind of eye wear that provides a main stat, as it allows you to skip buying the 10th rank of that stat.

Max level is 300, so, it's fully possible.

And in answer to the question- Yes I think it's enough. Honestly by the time you're at level 50-100, you're pretty rounded out and doing fine- More than that is nicety, not necessity.

Originally posted by Shane: i would rather get rid of the root level skill that needs to be pushed to lv.10, its that which winds me up and leaves me thinking ranking is too slow on a already 5 page set of trees.

The whole point is that you're supposed to focus on what you need now- Not on getting every skill. Choices matter, You're not supposed to get all the skills in a casual playthrough.

Even if they removed the primary stat (which itself is meant to make you choose where to focus your points- Do you focus your points to get high levels in one stat, or spread them to be more of a jack of all trades?), they would just do something like make leveling take way longer, or re-add level gating.. Or worst, nerf and spread out the existing skills to cost an appropriate amount of points ala rank 1 costing 1 point, 2 costing 2, 3 costing 3... Then you wouldn't even have the option of powering through a single main stat in order to get high level skills.

Originally posted by vgifford: At the stage of the game that I am at now, Loot crates are dropping level 6 items, but I still can't craft them myself.

Crafting stops at Q5. Last I heard, Q6 will be being repurposed into a tier of 'Legendary' type items, rather than being an additional level of the existing weapons/tools.

Originally posted by Marstil:

Originally posted by Ming: If they did that then it would be back to level gating everything like in A17. This is the compromise they came up with.

They still have level gating, it is just more subtle.

If you squint, sure. You can't buy rank 5 of a skill ASAP because you first need to buy up the 4 ranks before it and in most cases max the main stat, which of course takes points which requires levels.

However, this is NOT the same as level gating whereupon rank 5 of any skill requires the player to be level 100+, rank 4 requires 80+, rank 3 requires 60+ etc.

You can buy the skill you want as soon as you have the skill points for it, with no additional waiting.