I liked the ability to respec in diablo 3, and missed it in torchlight 2 (barring cheating), but the diablo 3 skill system was lacking the complexity and longevity of progression i’d like in even a loot quest. Yes, and the more stuff is what sets it apart from diablo 3. Is that just because I haven’t seen it, or are people just assuming that because you find skills as drops and there’s this giant web of passives the game has more build diversity? I know there’s a limit to how diverse skills can be, but the stuff I’ve seen so far doesn’t really change the game or the combat in anywhere near the ways that D3’s skills do. Likewise, with the skill gems, are they really that diverse, or just different names for the same damage. making meaningful choices about what your character can do? How does this play in reality, though? I mean, most of the passive tree is just +10 to a stat, and though there are clearly all these winding pathways through it, how much of a difference does that actually make for your character? In other words, to what extent are you spending time optimizing paths through the web just to get slightly more power, vs.

I’d say PoE has the best build diversity - there are both the passive skill tree with what…1300 skills and then there is the way you combine gems to give different effects.

Torchlight 2 combine gems