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:::You can spend into seven skills at a time, total. These are active skills and don’t include passives.—Diablo
This issue is further complicaed by limits the game places on how quickly new skills may be enabled. From what players saw at Blizzcon 2010, one more of the seven skills becomes available to put points into at each skill tier; 2, 3, 6, 10, 14, 20, 26.
Thus a level 9 character would have built up 8 skill points (assuming no additional from quest rewards), but would have only 3 skills to spend them in. A 4th skill would become available at level 10, a 5th at 14, and so on. This would encourage (force) players to concentrate their skill points into a few skills, making them more powerful and focused, rather than spreading them around too widely, too soon.
This is a better way to play in terms of building character strength, and fits with the [[D3 Team]]'s design goal of directing players to play wisely. Since there are [[respec]]s, it's not a big deal, since players can easily switch points out of lower level skills to higher level ones if they so desire.
===Maximum Skill Points?===