3rd Mastery request

Hi, I am a huge fan, seeing this game as best successor to Diablo 2!

I love playing character based builds, based on iconic figures from fantasy novels, etc… This is rather than min-maxing.

I am sure it has come up before, but would love to have the option to add a 3rd Mastery for further picks of specific skills. Also noting that a lot of gear has bonuses for 3 different mastery skills. Is this something you have considered and could be feasible?

BTW would also love to see bone wall and some other iconic D2 skills and looking forward to the shapeshifter in Asterkan!

Thanks!

I don’t really think it’s doable since there would be game balancing issues, as it would have to figure out what is the best number to allocate skill points and could be lots of work in terms of putting in more skill slots.

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I get where you’re coming from,
but I think adding an option to have a 3rd mastery would make balancing and making a build very hectic and troublesome.
And the devs having to balance hundreds of mastery combinations would be a nightmare.

Now we have 9 names for masteries and 36 for every combo of 2 masteries. Imagine coming up with new 84 names necessary for every combo of 3 masteries.

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I believe this is meant to make items more varied in their usage.
For example: consider the 2-handed axe Mythical Guillotine - Items - Grim Dawn Item Database
It gives skills to Shaman, Soldier, and Necro. The goal is that the item can be used in builds of Shaman+Solder, or Soldier+Necro, or Shaman+Necro. The goal was not for players to benefit from all 3 classes bonuses at once.

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Thanks all for input and I get where everyone is coming from. I am not suggesting to change the number of skill points, so may even end up being a negative through dilution? Is more about thematics for character builds. Frankly a lot of the builds are anyway unbalanced and uber and for those who like can cheat with GDStash or otherwise.