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Yeah... this sounds cool on paper, but I don't really understand how it would work out, for the same reasons Orph pointed out. Would top off your character power VERY early, but then again there are a lot of passive skills now that increase damage of the active skills, so perhaps they're taking those into account...

We don't exactly know whether or not you can put each point you gain into the same level. I.e. lvl 1 put point into shock, lvl 2 put point into shock .... level 5= lvl5 shock. There is a chance some levels give you two skill points or skill lvl (X) can be equal to your level.

It almost seems that with a cap per difficulty, you would be wasting points in skills you might not even want. Either that or leveling will be really slow or the max level you can obtain is lower than in D II.

Don't forget that D3 will have respec. IF D2 is a model, it's enough that you don't have to worry about eternally gimping your character in high levels, so you can basically do whatever you want going through the easier parts of the game and worry about an optimal build later when you need it.

There is a god possibility that saving points will not be possible. They obviously see this as a big problem from D2. Maybe when leveling you have to spend your point or you can only increase a skill once per level. To me the biggest advantage of increasing skill caps with each difficulty is that it is like starting over just more powerful. Considering that is how the game is designed with difficulties, the skills system should match this idea.

also, I dont know how well they rush proofed the game, but what if a level 24 gets to hell with help, can max certain skills to 15, go back and do what he needs to do in normal/nightmare

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also, I dont know how well they rush proofed the game, but what if a level 24 gets to hell with help, can max certain skills to 15, go back and do what he needs to do in normal/nightmare

Blizzard's already mentioned (can't remember where) that "rushing" is an acceptable form of play. They have no problem with people helping their friends through the game. However, that's not saying that they possibly won't implement quest/skill bonuses that you lose out on if you get "rushed" instead of playing through normally.

Bashiok sez: Nevermind

Oh boy.

Either he has no idea how the game is being developed, or he said something he wasn't supposed to.
My money is on the latter :/.

Yea that if implemented would create false incentives to spread around skill points, in an unnecessary way. If you assume the max level of a skill for example.