Skills Granted from Gear Should Level Like Ascendency Granted Skills

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Sakanabi#6664 wrote:

It's a tradeoff for using weapon skill which is mana-free and does not require a skill slot.

This is one of the only valid reasons I can think to justify making these skills require more investment to truly bring into higher content and have harder progression journies. I am curious to see if anyone has any other suggestions or ideas.

I would much prefer a tradeoff to instead be that weapon skills have another form of currency or upgrade path for players who choose to invest into them. This is purely preference as the system as it is makes sense. Right now the only way to really bring these skills with you and use them is to rely on getting the exact weapon base with the Skill to drop with good rolls consistently as you level. Which is arguably more unlikely than just getting a higher level uncut gem for traditional skills.