《暗黑破坏神3》最新情报：技能树并非天赋树

    The Diablo III skill tree is a skill tree and not a talent tree because you learn all of your skills from it.You aren't given new abilities every other level from a trainer. There's no expectation that you'll have some specific ability at some level. There's no role requirements that dictate where you have to spend points to hurt monsters. The points you spend determine exactly how the character is built, how it functions, and what it's able to do.
    暗黑破坏神的技能树，是货真价实的“技能树”，而不是“天赋树”什么的，你所有的技能都将来源于这技能树。你不会每升一级就可以去找训练师学个新技能。也不用想着升到某些级别后会获得什么特殊技能。当然也不会说某些职业只有学了某几个技能才好打怪。如何加技能点决定了你的角色成长，你的角色怎么用、能做到什么，完全取决于此。

    So, people are comparing the trees for a few reasons and using these reasons as negatives. I'll try to cover them all.
    那么，有人总是喜欢拿这两种“树”在比，然后觉得D3的技能树如何如如何不好。在此我就针对这些说一说。（说到这里，小编可以感觉到Bashiok对于玩家的无理取闹有点生气了……）

    1. "They look similar." 
    Yes, they do. They're both downward expanding trees, they both have icons that you can spend points in, they both have arrows that determine expansion into other skills. These were all features also in the Diablo II trees.
    1、“它们看起来很像。”
    是的，它们的确很相似。它们都是向下扩展的“树”，它们都有可以让你消耗点数升级的图标，它们都有箭头标明技能间的从属关系。这些东西D2的技能树中都有。

     2. "It's unoriginal."
     I agree. It's only after 10 (?) or so working concepts of various other skill tree designs that we were able to arrive at the conclusion that this is a system that works and achieves the goals that we want to achieve (we showed those failed designs at BlizzCon btw). There's no point in trying to put in something new and complex just for the sake of originality. When people play the game will they remember that it's not new, or that it's not fun?
     I want to heavily stress again on this point that the skill trees are not finished, we're still in the process of heavy iteration and experimentation.

     2、“这不是原创的。”
     我同意。在尝试过十多种不同的设计方案后，我们得出的结论是这个（树型）系统是唯一能有效达成我们的目标的系统（顺便一说，我们有在BlizzCon上展示之前那些失败的方案）。这里没有必要为了所谓的“原创性”而硬是搞一个全新的东西出来。自己想想，当你玩的时候你在意的是什么？难道是“原创性”？你关心的是是否好玩吧。
　　这里我再次强调，技能树还没完成。我们还在对其反复修改并进行大量的试验。

    3. "Point requirements to advance down the tree is lame." 
    One of the main problems with the Diablo II trees was point hoarding, which was the act of holding on to all of your points until you are able to reach a skill you want to put points into. This may not be an issue to some players just because it's so easily dismissed as 'part of the game', but from a designer perspective it's a huge failure. You are giving the player a reward and they are hoarding those rewards because they have nothing enticing to spend them on. This was attempted to be remedied through a patch by introducing synergies, unfortunately they caused their own issues. World of Warcraft looking at the Diablo II trees for inspiration saw this flaw but took a different approach in solving it, instead implementing a point requirement to advance down the tree. The player now has to spend points to advance, and with that comes the ability to provide more impacting and meaningful places to spend them.

　　3、“更高级的技能需要消耗了一定点数才能开启，这很渣。”

    D2的技能树系统有个很严重的缺陷就是留点问题。玩家会一直留着技能点不用，直到他们开启了某个他们想要的技能后，就把点都塞进去。这对于一些玩家来说不是问题，他们甚至认为这就是游戏的一种玩法。但是在游戏设计人员看来，这完全是巨大的败笔。你给玩家提供了奖励，但是玩家们却都收着不用，因为用了也没啥好处。我们曾经试图通过在补丁中加入“技能加成”系统来弥补这一缺陷，但不幸的是这方法本身也有问题。魔兽世界的天赋树灵感来源于D2的技能树系统。他们很明白D2系统的缺陷，于是采用了一种不同的方式来避免其出现：你一定要在“树”的前一级中点够了一定的点数后，才能开启下一级的东西。如此玩家就必须用掉一些点数才能继续升级，加点也趋于合理。

    4. "Cookie cutter builds!" 
    Again these are skill trees, not talent trees. Every single ability you can cast/use is learned through spending points in the tree. This allows, in comparison, for a huge amount of customization. Now, that doesn't escape the truth that there will always be builds considered to be the best, but that's more an issue of balance, not skill tree layout design. Also on that point, and I've said it before, character customization is a core design goal of the game. It's one of a few, and that means that we're not going to release the game unless we're happy with the amount of customization available.

    4、“又滥又垃圾的培养路线！”
    再说一次，这是技能树，而不是天赋树。任何一个你能施放/使用的技能都是通过在那“树”上加点得来的。（与天赋树）相比之下这就提供了高得多的加点自由度。不可否认的是总会有些培养路线更好，但那就是平衡性的问题了，和技能树的外观问题就搭不上边了。之前我就多次强调，角色培养自由度是我们设计这个游戏的核心理念之一。这也意味着，在角色培养自由度方面没做到我们满意之前，是不会发布游戏的。