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When I have some free time (haha) I’ll try to test it and see how well I do with no skills and no traits. Ugh. Sounds painful. </blue>
Bashiok tried it out the next day, playing a new Barbarian and then a Wizard to Clvl 6~ without spending a single skill point, and reported his findings.<ref>[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/hands-on-from-blizzard-bashiok-tries-point-hoarding/ Bashiok forum post] - Battle.net, November 4, 2010</ref>
His report was interesting, but not especially illuminating, since he was so literal about point hoarding; not spending a single point. That wasn't how it went in Diablo 2; players spent points in prereqs and passives and used those, while saving their points for the higher level skills they were going to max out. There's no reason to do that in D3 though, with useful skills at lower levels, and easy respecs, which makes this purely a theoretical exercise/discussion.
==Skill Mechanics==