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This is kinda inspired by Grim Dawn, where skills come from the passive trees and items can have +x to specific skills or even to the entire class tree. The latter would understandably be too powerful in LE at the moment, but the former could be fun to have.
Getting +x points for singular very specific passive nodes may be too specific, so in the veins of LE I thought maybe we could get a new and more generic stat on either unique items or possibly even as a rare craftable mod like "+1 to column 4 on passive tree" where you'd simply have an additional point to allocate in a specific column of any mastery of your class or it could mention specific masteries, if that's not too specific.
The way I see it there are multiple ways this could be implemented:
+X to column 4 of specialized mastery
+X to column 7 of any mastery of your class (allowing 2nd halves, but respecting locked trees)
+X to column 7 of any mastery of your class (bypassing locks of non-mastered 2nd halves)
Then there are 2 more things that would have to be decided:
Whether this could exceed node maximum caps or not
Whether you'd be required to allocate points up to that column for it to be useable or if it would allow you to bypass the 5 point threshold per column, allowing skipping columns
I could definitely see this happening in the future.
I've just been thinking what kind of cool new stuff could be added to the whole itemization and build-making process in the future that may fit into LE. Imo there are many ways this could be balanced too like which columns would be available, which of my mentioned options they would choose, how many points we could acquire etc.
How would you feel about this?
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