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::'''Jay Wilson: '''In terms of the number of skills, that’s about right. In terms of the skill tree we’re um... we’re still playing around with the actual layouts of skill trees and the working of the skill system. The skills for the Wizard and Barbarian their skill trees were very solid. We like their skills, though there are a few still missing. Especially for the Wizard, there are skills we didn’t put into her tree that we’re still defining, especially at the high end. The same for the Barbarian; we’ve got a few skills on the way for him. But for the most part, the content of those trees is more or less correct.
===How Many Skills At Once?===
Only 7 skills can have points placed in them at one time, in Diablo III. This fact was revealed via the @Diablo twitter feed in late-September, 2010. [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/diablo-on-skills-party-help-and-beta-confirmation/]
::Bash said U can only have 7 skills at a time, does that mean I can’t have skill points in an 8th skill or U can only have 7 on UI?—TheEliminator
:::You can spend into seven skills at a time, total. These are active skills and don’t include passives.—Diablo
===How Many Points in Skills?===
It's not yet been made clear how many skill points can be placed into the skills, or how quickly points may be added to the skills. Characters could add one per level in Diablo 2, but many other RPGs have different limits, sometimes allowing points only every 3rd or 5th level up. This technique allows for skills to gain much more benefit per level, making them ultimately more powerful.
Nothing has ever been said about how quickly points can be added to skills in Diablo 3, but in June 2010 Bashiok said that the skill caps would be set by difficulty level, and would progress by 5 points each. Thus characters would have a maximum of 5/10/15 on normal/nightmare/hell. [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/skill-caps-increase-on-nm-hell/]
This seemed viable and interesting to most players, until Bashiok took it all back a couple of weeks later: [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/max-level-and-more-on-skill-caps/]
::'''Bashiok:''' Ignore everything I said about raising skill caps, that was an old, old design for how it could potentially work and I had a lapse of memory.
No further clarifications were in order, but when the issue was next raised in September 2010, [[@Diablo]]'s comment made a max cap of 15 seem fairly likely. [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/diablo-on-skills/]
::How many skills, active and passive, will we be able to maximize with the 60 level cap? —Akamugin
:::It hasn’t been nailed down, but probably three, maybe four active skills at highest cap can be maxed out at 60. —Diablo
==The Skill Design Team==
