by BioWare’s latest Dragon Age: Dreadwolf Community Update dives deep into creating the upcoming RPG’s skill tree, with BioWare detailing their philosophy behind the system and how the game’s various designers help bring it to life in-game. .
Dragon Age: Dreadwolf’s skill tree is designed so that unlocking each new node “is meaningful” and grants “significant power gains,” BioWare says in the blog. A variety of different nodes in the skill tree are there to provide more than simple stat boosts. Furthermore, BioWare doesn’t want any node in the skill tree to feel like a pointless stepping stone to a “real” node, instead pushing for each node to be powerful and impactful in its own right.