A few weeks ago I respecced one of my old chars to the exact specifications posted in one of the guides (I believe it was the double familiar cabalist) and I was very confused as to why the original build, as it figured in grimtools, had two more skill points than I. Different DPS or messed up resistances - that i understand: rolls. But skill points? Maybe it’s the relic completion bonus, I thought and forgot about the matter.
Then I completely failed in building a functional purifier so I decided to copy another build: burn runebinder. I finished yesterday and… 8 points are missing!
Can somebody PLEASE explain to me what is up? I double checked both characters: exactly same gear (except affixes on MI’s but none that pertain to skill bonuses), hidden path completed on all difficulties, Allostria the Mindthief killed on Ultimate, skill point rewards from Kasparov - you cannot skip that… What else is there?
You should have a total of 244 skill points with all Skill point quests in all difficulties completed. If the guide you are following has an extra 8 skill points, the only thing I can think of is if the author used a character editor (like GD Stash has) to test out a build and maybe added a few extra points and forgot to take the extra skill points out when posting. However, that is pure conjecture so take my musings with a pinch of salt.
You skip too many quests. As Nexdoreum said, there’s 244 skill points and all are obtained after finishing all three difficulties. There’s no way you can skip any point if you know all quests in the game and do them. If you don’t know about Hidden Path, you lose 3 points (1 per difficulty).
I didn’t skip any quests that reward with skill points as mentioned in the first post. And even if I did skip all of them the difference should be mo more than 6 (3xhidden path, the other you on ultimate, 2 possible skill points from relic completion bonus) not 8!
If you do all content, you will get 244 skill points and that’s how many that is used in the build you linked to, and on all my level 100 chars too. There is nothing strange here from my perspective.
Why dont you link to your build aswell and we can see what is missing/different.
I didn’t skip any quests that reward with skill points as mentioned in the first post. And even if I did skip all of them the difference should be mo more than 6 (3xhidden path, the other you on ultimate, 2 possible skill points from relic completion bonus) not 8.