SKILL SYSTEM overhaul suggestions. Brainstorm please. What would you change?

[fidach]

You are right, the skill system does need an overhaul, badly.

From back in November:

Skills page refinement (wall of text alert)

After filling one skills page and pumping 80 points into another I have a suggestion on a possible improvement. What has become apparent, is when changing skill pages, it is like completely changing character, you keep nothing of ‘you’ so to speak. Its actually like changing to an alt, but without the benefit of the faster levelling. In fact, it actually has a deficit, in that if you go from a low heath skill set to a high, the health bar does not fill, where changing to an alt does (I’m actua…

I think the problem with any major change to the skill system is that it would likely take some sort of ‘soft reset’ to implement it.

I can just imagine the meltdown if that was announced, even if it would benefit the game long-term there would still be those that would refuse to accept that reasoning.