"Terrifying" skill tree suggestion

Hey, I'm writing with a suggestion regarding the skill tree. Although for me personally, the moment I first opened the skill tree in PoE1 was when I knew I would fall in love with this game, I’ve heard several times that new players, who open the tree for the first time, feel discouraged. I can completely understand this—someone might feel forced to immediately learn every detail of the tree, or they might feel overwhelmed right away. In my opinion, it should be clearly communicated from the start that it's not necessary to study all the skill points immediately.

I suggest that when reaching level 2, the first time we open a skill tree, only the closest points from the starting position should be shown. The rest of the points should be blurred out, and we can gradually reveal additional points as we level up, maybe with the option to manually uncover them. For example, when reaching level 5 or something like that and opening the tree again, we would see an animation revealing the blurred points over a larger area. A short video explaining how to find interesting points might be helpful here.

Additionally, I think it would be good to include some mini-tutorials at certain moments. When reaching level 2 we already have access to basic skills. At this point, a brief explanation of what this skill will work with should be shown. Perhaps a small tip about the search function could also be added?

It also occurred to me that you could show gem tags under the search feature, (which could be expanded or hidden) to highlight points by clicking on the tag we're interested in. This way, with the help of a short video, everyone would understand that, for example, if a gem has the "Minion" tag, they should look for points on the tree that also have "Minion" in their text. The tags in the search function could be dynamically matched to the gems we have. I also think it could be a nice QoL improvement to allow clicking on the "Lightning" tag instead of typing it manually. You could even add some info like "Hey, notice that even if you're playing as a warrior, you can still assign and use points with the 'Minion' tag, but be careful, it will take you a bit of time and levels to reach them!"

That’s all from my side. Thanks for your attention!

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