balance is bad for this game. We need more passive skill points.

Lol... You all make me laugh, really. Let's look at the math for a moment, shall we? Right now we are allowed 120/1300 passives. How on earth would 60-80 more passives have such a great effect on "balance" anyway? 180/1300 to 200/1300? Are you guys serious? We aren't able to fill 10% of this tree, and even if you canceled out all the passives you wouldn't have to use based on weapon/armor of choice, you're still only a fraction of the way in (say, 25-30% at this point). There is way more fun factor in slightly raising the cap than there ever would be a balance defect.

If all you "hard core," "1337" players out there want less points, then just don't spend them all if it bothers you so much. There's too much room for possibilities and expansion in this game for all these limit freaks.

inb4 "we need to have a badge loot system so i know after having run maps for 4 hours i can buy a kaoms. This rng thing is unfair and only benefits nolifers"

Reduce the % value of most of the life nodes (e.g 8% -> 5%)

Give everyone an innate %life bonus based on character level, say 1.5% per character level


Result:
- heavy life builds are more or less unchanged (same amount of HP in total as they have now)
- builds with fewer life nodes become more viable than they are now because the difference in HP between them and the heavy life builds is not so extreme.


If there's any 'compressing' of nodes where lots of weak nodes are replaced with a few strong ones, it should be for the weapon specialist passives, especially for melee weapons. There are just far too many of them and most of the circles aren't rewarding enough for anyone to make more than a minor investment in them.

Early build diversity would be nice, this type of thing could lessen the difficulty curve for certain oddball builds. But in the same respect, it would make a Freezing Pulse spamming Marauder so much easier to get going.

Not quite a "necro" to the thread... but a defibrillator, maybe. Either way, this is one thread that didn't need to remain alive.