Skills

[Antison]

As I said before I apply 2 points into combat speed yet my AP stays at 10. Maybe it is a bug they were not aware of? If it does what I expect it to (raise to 12) then its a great skill. It's annoying cause I dont want to spend any points on anything else until this works

The extra AP shows up as "Max AP" under the unequipped stats.

[Piggy the Slayer]

I too put a skill point into corpse eater. Mainly because it sounds evil and I think thats where Piggy the Slayer is heading.

[allanon]

I put all my 10 levels into Magic Finder.
I mean, most of the other skills are nice to haves but most of us spend countless hours slugging away trying to find one of those magic items and if you can increase the probability of the item being dropped by 10x or whatever it turns out to be, then thats definitely worth it in my book!

[Mino]

I also put 10 into magic finder (after countless hours trying for the RoLS during v0.6.8 - not that I couldn't have counted, I was just too lazy), and so far I've got 2 of the ChaR in 2 days, but those are extraordinary and have a slightly better drop rate than the legendary items. Still, that made it worth using those skill points in my book.

I had 16 total when this update was released to market (I was furiously grinding XP out of the wyrms and their trainers so I could have more skill points), and here is what I used:

2 for Combat Speed (raised max AP to 12 - imo the best skill and most powerful skill in the long run)
1 for More Criticals
1 for Better Criticals
1 for Strong Mind -seems like I'd need more to better resist that Chaotic grip though...
1 for Enduring Body - but I haven't been back to BWM to see how much it helps prevent fatigue yet
10 for magic finder - I could have gone with 12 here, but I decided to go with a round number and use the other 2 for the resistance skills

I don't plan on using skills for things I can get through regular level ups like AC, AD or BC, but I plan to use the skills that would compliment those. I generally level up the same thing 5 times in a row.

So leveling up from 65 to 70, I plan to increase AC, and when I get another skill point I plan to increase More Criticals again (since having a high CC% isn't worth much if you're not hitting them to begin with).

Then I plan to increase AD leveling up from 70 to 75 and increase Better Criticals when I get the skill point.

75-80 I will level up BC and either increase Bark Skin or Strong Mind (depending on how annoying that chaotic grip gets)

80-85 will go towards increasing HP and I'll use the skill for Corpse Eater.

Edit (10/26/11): After some helpful advice from another player, I think I will instead put my next skill point into Increased Fortitude, and the next 4 after that into Quick Learner (for an extra 20% XP from every monster) since these level ups are only going to take longer as I keep playing.

Edit 2 (10/27/11): after getting impatient with the time it takes to level up, I used my recently gained skill point for Quick Learner, and plan to use the next 2 for that as well. When I get my skill point for hitting level 80, I'll use that one for Increased Fortitude so that I'll still add 20 to my max HP as I level up to 100. After the I plan to leave the Iqhan caves and go back to the Gargoyle caves for a RoLS so I won't be leveling up as quickly.

Hopefully I don't seem to obsessive for having planned out that far ahead...

[Hawkeye]

Does anyone know how we can increase/obtain more skill points? I just leveled up to level 31, but I didn't receive any new skill points. Any thoughts here?

[Sarumar]

Does anyone know how we can increase/obtain more skill points? I just leveled up to level
31, but I didn't receive any new skill points. Any thoughts here?

You get one for every 4 levell, 4,8...32...