Searching through passive skill tree

When I first saw the skill tree, I was amazed as to how it looked. However seeing so many circles makes it hard to find certain passive skills. Could you possibly put a search button in the skill tree? Like if I wanted to see where all the one handed damage increase passives were, I would just type it into the search bar and it would highlight all the passives.

You aren't the only one who has asked for a feature like this, but sadly it seems the developers want to let the community handle that right now. With the sheer size and frequent patches though no one seems to want to take up that challenge.

I think this is better left for an online build planner whether it be on the official website or a fansite. I suppose it wouldn't hurt to put it in game, but I'd rather see the time and effort it would take to implement put towards more pressing matters.

A potentially easier to code alternative would be have all "similar" skills highlight when you hover over a skill (while holding shift or whatever maybe).

Where similar is defined as any duplicate of the skill, later this could be expanded into categories based on the weapon or element or defense stat etc. that is affected by the skill.

I can only guess that each skill has some kind of 'type' or 'category' or possibly 'id' that can be compared when iterating the skill graph. So I would presume duplicate skills share such properties and can be easily compared for similarity. Or if the same skill instance is pointed to by multiple nodes in the graph then you can have those nodes observe a shared highlight state etc.

It's not perfect, but i feel it helps the common use case of finding duplicate skills to maximize a particular stat/strategy.

Down the track it would be nice to be able to 'tag' a skill as planned so you only have to search for these things once.

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FaceLicker wrote:

but I'd rather see the time and effort it would take to implement put towards more pressing matters.

It's easy to implement dude .... and the GUI-people need something to do.