Action Trees for Customization

[Sibyll]

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Given that the cross class skills for each class are more or less illusion of choice, I think it's safe to say they'd do no better here than Rift did.

Also in GW2 most of the traits had little impact and were there mostly for flavor, at least when I played. Some of the skills there were outright garbage. GW2 also didn't have real end game.

I really liked Rifts class system and the skill trees, but the "customization was basically in the last 15 points after you'd capped a tree.

[Orenji-kun]

...why do quests for new actions when there can be a new exp bar specific to this, like a mastery or proficiency system...

There are a number of reasons for doing this system as a nonlinear series of quests. First, it would create a tree of options while using all of the mechanics already present in the game, which is really easy for devs to implement and test. Second, it would keep it down to simple choices of which quest and subsequent reward you want at the moment, and even if you check online as most do, new skills and quests can be added at any part of the tree so devs can adjust it as time goes on.

[roninoftagrm]

There are a number of reasons for doing this system as a nonlinear series of quests. First, it would create a tree of options while using all of the mechanics already present in the game, which is really easy for devs to implement and test. Second, it would keep it down to simple choices of which quest and subsequent reward you want at the moment, and even if you check online as most do, new skills and quests can be added at any part of the tree so devs can adjust it as time goes on.

i included the idea of the action log as well, which would act much like achievement log but add new skills to a new tab, which would take less effort, and is better for the devs than my desirable mastery/prof system, the part of adding quests requires some form of story behind it, while a log merely adds things to do thats more or less already there