Quote Originally Posted by Malzian View Post
My two cents.... changing a 'pop-skill' system like we have now over to anything like a skill tree is something that has killed many MMOs in the past. If you start the game out with one, that's fine, but this kind of change really will sour things for a lot of people who started playing before it was implemented. Note... I've seen this happen twice already.
Not a 'skill tree', but a 'Mastery tree'; two different systems. A mastery system doesn't change the underlying system we already have. Any new skills, everyone will still get, but skills would be able to be upgraded instead.