You start getting them at level 14.
At level 13 you unlock your first utility slot, and are automatically given a condition removal utility. You also unlock the ability to do skill point challenges in the open world.
At level 14 you get the first point you can spend yourself.
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You get skill points in chunks every X levels. You get your first batch at 20, where you will receive 8.
You can still get SP from scrolls of knowledge and skill challenges (after level 10) though
Resident smug Englishman on the NA servers, just because.
Yeah I got mixed up when I posted last, I forgot about skill challenges.
It looks like you can start doing the skill point challenges at level 13, but you don’t get skill points from levelling up until level 20, then you get 8 all together.
It seems like a very strange way of doing it to me. I could understand grouping trait points together because it didn’t change how they’re actually used (no one put 12 points into one line, and 17 in another, it was always multiples of 5) but when you can buy skills for just 1 point there’s no sense in grouping them like that.
It just means you’re stuck with the same skill/s for multiple levels and then suddenly have several unlocked at once, which seems contradictory to how the rest of the new levelling system works. If Anet are worried that unlocking all 5 weapon skills at low levels will confuse new players shouldn’t they consider getting 8 utilities at once to also be a problem?
Danielle Aurorel, Dear Dragon We Got Your Cookies [Nom], Desolation (EU).
“Life’s a journey, not a destination.”
