Originally posted by Gladi8er65:

Players like myself don't bother fussing over the skill tree... I simply never look at it, and just play the game... always solo... always vanilla, and have finished the game (up to the current content "end-game") several times and haven't bothered with any skill training, outside of the normal gains from playing the game and NOT dying (as much as possible), but honestly a death here or there, never seemed to register any great "setback" or that I had somehow crippled myself, all of a sudden, because I had died... I just play through and have a great time, and by the end, I STILL don't even look at the skills... I just don't acknowledge that they are
Cheers

Same here. I have never looked at skills while playing solo because i try not to die. On average i die less than 10 times during the playthrough so i could not feel the impact of lost skill points. However, now i run modded server for my friends and i’m preparing a lot of challenges with a lot of powerful mobs and we die up to 10 times per night. And trust me, we can feel it. We feel it so bad that i had to add no-skill-lose-on-death mod.