Guild Wars 2

When I was level 30 with my Sylvari necro, I started saving my Skill points for the highest tier Elite skills.

When the point came to finally buy either Lich Form or Summon Druid Spirit, I was really in a pickle. I got the Druid Spirit since it made sense because I was mainly playing minions, but Lich Form was quite cool too when I got it and started playing cond/wells. I imagined I would be really disappointed with Lich Form given my playing style, but it seemed very appealing too. In other words, I wanted some kind of “try before buy”.

So I came up with the idea of a system that would enable you to preview skills so you make sure you don’t throw away your hard earned skill points.

• You could right click the skill and select “Try”, similar to gear preview.
• There could be a small fee – it could cost 1 skill point, or some money for example.
• The skill would have a limited amount of uses and a limited amount of time. There would be an effect saying “<Skill Name> Preview”, and hovering over it you would see “You can use <Skill Name> X more times, for Y more minutes”. This is to prevent the exploitation of the skill. After the skill is done, it’s done, you cannot try it again.
• You could not use this skill in instances or Dungeons. Again, anti-exploitation.
• The time/usage limit would vary depending on the cost of the skill and it’s tier.

To be honest though, I think Skill points aren’t all that hard to get, but sometimes I really ponder whether to get a 10SP skill that I won’t even use. I’m better off saving them for Eldrich Scrolls and whatnot. I still think it’s a good idea and I just wanted to share it.

after you get to 80 you will get so much more, so dont worry, read what it says carefully and confirm upon that,

my advice if your still leveling, take signets they are the ones that have passives and will help you alot, the rest are useful in instances and PvP, like for example steal boons and remove conditions and for instances and PvP

First thing i do when i make a new character is go to heart of the mists so i can try everything out and decide how i’m going to spec that character. Of course skills will seem better because you are level 80 but you still get an idea of the skill, plus you can’t use race skills in HoTM either but to be honest most of them are not worth picking over prof skills any way.