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===How Many Maximum Skill 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.
[[Bashiok]] spoke to this issue in a forum post in May 2009. <ref>[http://www.diii.net/blog/comments/diablo-iii-skill-trees-innovative-overhaul/ Bashiok forum post] - May 2009</ref> ::''Currently we’re envisioning the majority of skills to be capped at 5 points, to begin with. As a form of progression we're planning for players to be able to increase the point caps of skills. More than likely to a maximum of 15. It's a system that’s still under heavy design, but the fact of choosing and increasing key skills beyond their initial cap is important to this new unified tier system.'' Until June 2010 this was all we knew, and fans were free to speculate that skill levels would be increased by Clvl requirements, quests/in-game achievements, skill runes, item bonuses, or something else. The speculation ended in June 2010, when [[Bashiok]] confirmed that the caps would be tied to difficulty level. <ref>[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/skill-caps-increase-on-nm-hell/ Bashiok forum post] - IncGamers, June 2010</ref> ::...the cap raises another five every difficulty level? So when you reach hell difficulty the caps would be at 15? This seemed viable seems the simplest method of doing things, with players able to move up to level 10 skills on Nightmare, and level 15 on Hell. (Plus potential +skill mods from item bonuses.) It might create some interesting strategy as well, with characters wanting to hurry to the next difficulty level in order to unlock their next five skill points. (That was not the case in Diablo 2, where untwinked/unrushed characters could find better gear and score bigger experience doing [[Baal]] runs from 30-45 or so, rather than moving up to most playersNightmare.) Logical or not, until Bashiok took it all back a couple of weeks later: <ref>[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/max-level-and-more-on-skill-caps/ Bashiok forum post] - IncGamers, July 2010</ref>
::'''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.
::...but can be increased up to Fifteen.
:::'''Bashiok:''' Potentially twenty.
==The Skill Design Team==
