Spending "Free Points" on Weapon skills question

[nezeray]

Working on some Pirates characters, but this question applies to RQ also:

When spending Free Points, can you put points into the Basic Melee and Basic Ranged skills?

I ask because this would increase ALL of your weapon skills (of that type). It seems like it could easily be taken advantage of.

"I like to use different melee weapons equally, so I should get the plus 20% to Basic Melee instead of just one weapon type."

Thanks in Advance.

James / Nezeray

 

[Swampy]

Your basic melee and ranged skills are your default skills in the weapons you are trained in rather than skills of their own. You would need to put your skill points into a weapon skill.

 

[nezeray]

That was my thought too, just didn't see it spelled out that you couldn't put points there. While doing a character generation demo, this question came up.

James / Nezeray