Dreadwolf Game Design discussion and question thread

looking at this, it seems familiar to the alchemy tree in Witcher 3 (if my memory is correct).

Thank you for posting I seem to have 'lost' that picture and was thinking I was seeing things. And probably needs a lot more perusing by me in the end of the day to see actual things. 

Good anyalisis to and now that I am looking at it I think you are onto something. Only thing I'd add is I do wonder how much of the specializations will incorporate stuff from other classes which has sort of been a bit of a DA staple at this point. There are just so many options but I wonder if the more you 'push out' to the perimeter the more hybrid stuff you will run into and what that will include and what the trade off is. 

Keeping in mind the above a few more questions occur to me: 

What will be the tradeoffs here between one thing or another? How many points will we be able to spend versus how many options will we have or will it work with other things? 
With so many options will things like trap making and trap deployment return and even be accessible to a warrior? 
How about different weapons styles? Will this be how they address concerns about warriors not having ranged options that you will have various ranged options in the outer areas which will then let the Warrior use things like bows? 
What about things like dialogue options and special knowledge checks? 
Will we have more rogue like warriors that can take a bit more of a punch if we do this the other way around? 
AM I just underestimating the amount of skills we had access to in DAI?  

Time will tell. 

Edit: Not really related but also something I believe Sharable Horizon mentioned on the fog of war...wonder how that will work? Will we be able to 'see' this entire tree so we can properly plan things out from the beginning or will we only be able to see into one branch only when we unlock an adjoining branch?

An interesting point to consider. But then imagine if the mage tree does end up looking like this and has this much depth? Not sure people will have to worry about lack of magical spells. 

On the one hand this is what they did with biotics in Andromeda, but on the other, just making every player character a mage and leaving it up to the player if they want to develop it or not is not going to work if race selection still allows dwarf PCs.

To me the tree seems to include three base classes (blue, red, yellow) and three hybrid classes. Only the base classes can be reached from the center node, the hybrids (purple, orange, green) have no connection to it and even those colors are a mix of the base class colors that they are stuck in between.

Given how we might end up with only 4 active abilities, these might be the big chevrons in the diagram and everything else is some sort of passive.

Yes, Warrior Skillgraph

It looks to me like the bordered diamond shapes are the actives. The ones overlaid on a square shape are the purchased abilities or active load out, maybe?

Circles - passive.

But what about the hexagons? There are 3 in black, but the rest all appear to have two at most. Are sustained abilities making a comeback?

or focus type abilities.

based on something I saw in the leaks I almost don't think that focus abilities will be in the load out this time.

Other option which I could see/ hope for is weapon proficiencies.

Must of skimmed that part in the blog.

Historically, for Warriors, it's either you playing as S&S, Two-Handed, or - as was the case in Origins - one handed Warrior. A whole starting node could make sense for each individual type, but the one that's a bit unfamiliar for me is what a potential third weapon skill system would look like. In the previous two games, it's primarily been S&S and Two-handed, and there's been plenty of skills for either type.

With the Rogue class, it's easier to imagine since your starting three nodes could be: Daggers, Archery, Traps (Subversion)

With Mages, you have baseline Support, Elemental attacks, and maybe something along the lines of crowd-control

I've added some details to the skill tree, compiling some of what we've seen. I've also added a bit from the leak so I'll put this under a spoiler tag.