skills
Crowfall explains its skill system with an extensive FAQ
When Crowfall launches, it plans to have upwards of 1,500 skills available for players to choose and train. Before your eyes cross just thinking...
Path of Exile shows off the Earthquake skill for big melee hits
When Path of Exile launches its Ascendancy expansion, your character builds will have new skills to play with, and many of those new skills...
Albion Online shows off a tanking build with the Iron-Clad Staff
Games like Albion Online offer players a great deal of versatility in builds, but it's not always immediately apparent how to turn all of...
Crowfall explains the design of its skill trees
How do you get better at things in Crowfall? Obviously, there's personal practice, but in the more abstract sense, there are the game's skill...
Blade & Soul’s website talks skills and skill trees
NCsoft has updated Blade & Soul's western website with a bit about the game's skill trees. You'll earn a skill point with each character...
Albion Online previews a learning point rework
The original purpose of Albion Online's learning point system was to create a balance mechanism for players with varying amounts of time to spend...
Project Gorgon unveils musical stretch goals
The Project Gorgon Kickstarter is humming along nicely this time around, and the developers have already passed the $25,000 stretch goal. So what's next...
The Daily Grind: Are levels in MMOs overrated?
Today's Daily Grind question comes from an anonymous Kickstarter donor who wanted to see just how many cans of worms he/she could open in...
The Repopulation tweaks combat and building in its latest patch
Launch rushes onward toward The Repopulation like... some sort of extremely fast launch-related thing. The metaphor isn't perfect. Neither is the game's combat system,...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2’s Heart of Thorns beta
My excitement for Guild Wars 2's first expansion has been no secret, so you can easily guess how much fun I had climbing the...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV and the unknown expansion skills
If you've been paying attention the last few weeks, you've doubtlessly heard a fair bit about the new skills that the various classes and...
Guild Wars 2 unveils the Necromancer elite spec, the Reaper
Under normal circumstances, Guild Wars 2 Necromancers have a pretty decisive philosophy of not getting involved in melee. It makes sense, after all. These...
How Star Wars Galaxies pioneered a ‘living society’
Former Star Wars Galaxies Creative Director and current Crowfall consultant Raph Koster returned to his blog last night to pen the fourth in his...
Path of Exile adds Golems and Warcries in Awakening
Path of Exile's next major update, The Awakening, is introducing not one, not three, but two new types of skills to the game. There...
Crowfall will allow offline skill training
Sampling from the best of both worlds, Crowfall will allow both offline passive and online active skill training for characters.
In a dev update posted...
