Quote from: gletsos on 28 January 2021, 12:29:45

Well if you cannot create a new mastery I guess that you practically cannot just add the class trees to the game.
The skills have to be inserted to the existing trees which does not seem to be so satisfing as a new feature.
Except if it is possible to have the new skills in a new interface even if technically they belong to the old trees.

If we're talking about a mod, you won't be able to create a new tree/new tab to put the class skills, you will have to spread them across the existing trees and you won't be able to add more than one or two skills per class. Or you would need to completely remove one mastery and use its tree for class skills.
It should be possible to display the class skills in a special way in the current Mastery trees (special borders around the icon, place them all on the top of the tree...) to make them stand out. Or you can create a special zone at the top of the tree with a specific background.
For instance, Spirit tree can hold all class skills for Spirit + Warfare/Hunting/Rogue/Defense/Nature, and Spirit + another Mastery class skills would be in the tree of those other Masteries.

You can also create new skills that are not in any tree, they would pop in the player bar when you achieve a quest for example (like when you equip an item that grants an active skill).
And you wouldn't be able to remove the points.

Since you have given me this information I am curious to try myself.
Is it possible for anybody to mod?
Do you have the game's interface when modding, or you need to write the code yourself?

I thought about this once for a mod. The skill trees only have 30 slots, only 8-9 or so left in vanilla (only 2-3 a few years ago), that's not much but now you can imagine taking 4 or 5 of these slots for class skills.
You would end up with 45 skills this way, 1 per class.
Maybe it's even possible to squeeze two special skills per class (90 in total) this way if you remove a few skills in some masteries.

This would need to be tested but setting the skill dependancy to another mastery bar, it should be possible to restrain those skills to specific classes.

Other ways would involve adding those skills to hidden trees (those for scrolls, etc.) and grant the player points to the class skill through quest actions, checking the current masteries.
Possibly items could allow bonuses to those skills.

Another option would be a completely separate tree, that would be dedicated to your class, but I think that's out of a mod reach, at least for now (or you need to break an existing mastery...)

You have a lot of feedback to give man!
Thanks for responding!
As I also replied before I do not have the knowledge and time to mod myself.
But anyway I like the fact that the idea is on table.
I didn't know that there are only limited free slots for new skills.
This complicates things.
Isn't it possible to create new slots?
Also the ideas on getting bonuses by completing some sort of special quests sounds interesting.
It could also be condition that you have to fulfil in order to unlock this tree, among others, like filling the mastery trees.

Hello everybody!
in this topic I want to ask about your opinion about my idea on new content in titan quest atlantis!
Please do not answer to general questions on whether it would be better to just fix the current issues, or remake it with a new engine, or create Titan quest 2 e.t.c.
I was thinking that the reason the previous addition (with the final tier skills) was not so satisfing because the advancement through masteries was quite enough, though the new skills were still welcome! 
The way to renew the game that I want to share is adding class skills.
Every class could have its own special skills apart from those from the masteries.
That way the class selection could have a deeper meaning, and it would add to the lore of the hero as it would suggest that a class has its unique talents independently of the general ones (belonging to masteries).
On top of that it would give reason to create every class in the game even if it is not strong depending on the individual masteries!
It would also motivate the production of new items to support all the new heroes that one may be inspired to create (so new items that you would care to drop!)
I know that this may demand a lot of work from the developers but I would like to see Titan Quest grow even bigger and I call you who want the same thing to participate in this conversation!