User blog:James of the iron hills/Skill trees

Before I start i want to tell you I will be updating this ALOT and will be publishing a page on the suggestion forum leading to this, feel free to give feedback on either here or the wiki page.

So here it goes, i was thinking that we coould add skill trees to the mod, there would be a fair few of them, usually one for two or three factions to share (e.g dwarf skill tree would have blue, red and normal dwarves encompassed in it) and would have two or three possible paths to follow. You would gain skill points through reaching certain amounts of alignment and using a few levels. Going down different skill trees would prohibit you going down others fully, how this would happen is if you gain the first ability of one tree it would remove the last ability of the others, e.g getting the elf ability would stop you gettin the last morgul, orcish, dol guldur and dwarven ability.

Ability trees would start with one ability to choose and then branch into the two or three other branches, as you go down these different branches they give different perks, for example; on the dwarven skill tree you would have a mining branch, with titles gained from speccing into it like, dwarf miner, dwarf horder, dwarven treasurer and dwarven gold lord (you cam give suggestions of better names) and another branch might be combat, with titles like dwarf warrior, dwarven knight, dwarven paladin and dwarven warrior king/warlord.

Each branch would have five abilities on it (including the solo base ability) and a master ability gained from gaining every ability on the tree and hitting 2500 alignment, for example on the orc tree (uruk hai, mordor orcs and gundabad orcs) the master ability would be something like orc conquerer amd would give you the ability to have a 1/5 chance of an insta kill/mega crit (some opponents would be exempt).

You could only get 30 skill points in the game allowing you to fully spec into 2 three branch trees with two skill points remaining or fully spec into three, 2 branch trees.

Below are all the skill trees I've completed:

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