Speaking to site Diablo Fans (natch) Wilson states, "About that, we've decided to remove the tree-type architecture and we are moving into a purely skill-based system." Wilson admits that their new skill system is still in the early design stages and that they wanted to try out a few new ideas. He adds, "It differs from the World of Warcraft/Diablo II type hierarchical styles and is more of a skill pool/path than a tree per se." Since Diablo III's release date is at least two years away we think they have some time to come up with something.
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Not sure what this means exactly, but Torchlight played down the 'tree' element of skills by making skills unlockable simply with a level requirement (rather than the conventional level requirement/skill prerequisite).
This meant you didn't have to buy skills you don't care about simply to get the things you want, which is definitely a good thing.
I'm sure Diablo fans will be up in arms about this, but it's not necessarily a bad thing. Diablo 2 wasn't perfect. There is room for improvement.Posted at 5:30PM on Nov 24th 2009 by asfm