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The skill tree

There are no classes. Everyone starts at the First Line in the middle of the skill tree (P) and grows outward through its sectors: small nodes, notables and keystones. Keystones change how you play, and there is a limit to how many you can take. Resetting the tree costs gold, more the more you have taken.

Point at a node, or click it, and its card says what it gives and what it costs (the points, the whole path to it, and the gold). Nothing is spent until you press the card's button (Take it, or Take the path), so you can click around the tree and read first. A click on empty ground closes the card; a right click on a taken node at the end of a branch refunds it.

Presets

Under the tree's side, Presets keeps up to five builds with your character. Type a name and press Save in a slot to keep your tree as it is. Each slot then says what Load would do now: reset your tree first (at the Reset button's price) if it has a node the build has not, then take the build's nodes in the order you took them, each for its gold, while you have the points and the gold. What is left waits for more points: load it again later and only the missing nodes are taken, with no reset. Load asks a second time before it resets your tree; Save asks before it replaces a build; the × empties a slot. A rebirth leaves your presets as they are, so after one you can load your build again as you level.

The Deep Weave

Past the old rim of the tree lie 102 more nodes, seventeen in each sector: two new paths out from each sector's edge, a notable on each, a deep mastery (half again a small node's bonus), side nodes, and a ring that joins each sector to the next. Each sector ends in a new keystone: Unbound (Might), The Deep Holds (Bulwark), Rootbound (Vigor), The Long Count (Arcana), Glasswalker (Finesse) and Lampless (Shadow). There are never enough points for all of the tree. You hold three keystones at once; the long reborn can win more in Chapter VIII: The Keystones (one more for each of its parts, at ranks 15, 30 and 60: six at most), so builds still have to choose. Every notable and keystone, where it is and what it does, is in the tables below.

288 nodes in 6 sectors (the First Line, where everyone starts, apart): the inner tree around it, the outer web past each sector's first keystone, and the Deep Weave past the old rim. 30 notables and 18 keystones, 3 in each sector; at most 3 keystones at once, and one more for each part of Chapter VIII done (for the reborn, at ranks 15, 30 and 60). You get a point every second level (and 3 more for each of your first six rebirths, then 1), and each node also costs a little gold, more the more you have taken.

Every keystone

A keystone changes how you play, often at a price. You hold 3 at once, and one more for each part of Chapter VIII: The Keystones done, at ranks 15, 30 and 60 (6 at most).

Every notable

What nodes cost