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→Skill Maximums: Correction to Synergies
Many skills gain less benefit with additional points, after some level. This is known as "diminishing returns" and it effectively caps those skills at some point. The Amazon skill [[Amazon_Passive_and_Magic_Skills#Critical_Strike|Critical Strike]] starts out at a 16% chance to deal double damage, but each point in the skill adds less than the previous. It's worth 42% at level 5, 55% at level 10, but gains barely 1% per point after that, reaching 68% at level 20, then crawling to 76% by level 40. Some skills are so valuable that they're worth boosting even with diminishing returns, but this depends on the equipment, the play style, and the build.
Finally, only skill points spent in a skill count for the [[#Skill_Synergies|synergy]] bonuses, +skill equipment does not synergize, with the exception of summoned creatures like the Necromancer's Skeletons & Druid's Wolves who do get synergies from +skill equipment.
==Skill Allocation==