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A Skill Tree is a kind of a categorized spellbook where you can see what skills are available to your character.

Diablo II

ShapeShiftingSkills

The Druid's Shape Shifting skill tree

In Diablo II, it has three tabs at the right side. Clicking on the tab will take you to the corresponding skill tree.

The tree consists of rows of skills. The row indicates the level requirement to acquire the skill. The first (top) row of skills are available as soon as you create your character. The second row has a level requirement of 6, with each following row's level requirement increasing by 6, up to 30 for the bottom row.

Some skills have one or more arrows pointing to them. Any skill on the tree that points to another skill is a prerequisite. For example, in the image to the right, Fire Claws FireClaws has arrows pointing to it from Feral Rage FeralRage and Maul MaulSkill. This means that in order to get Fire Claws, you must already have at least one skill point in both Feral Rage and Maul.

Assassin Skills
Martial Arts
Shadow Disciplines
Traps
Necromancer Skills
Summoning Spells
Poison and Bone Spells
Curses

Diablo III

Development

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In the early versions of Diablo III, skill trees were working in the same way they did in Diablo II: three separate trees, unlocking more passive and active skills as players invest more skill points in them. However, eventually this concept has been canceled, although most of the skills were more or less transferred to the new system of skill categories (see below). This allowed making mixed builds and prevented players from wasting points on skills they do not want just to get to the next skill in the category. However, details about two older skill trees (Barbarian and Wizard) still exist:

Diablo III Pre-release Barbarian Skills

Berserker Skills — Frenzy • Threatening Shout • Onslaught • Double Strike • Strong Constitution • Berserker State • Leap Attack • Enrage • Dual Wield Specialization • Savage • Speed Boost • Whirlwind • Slashing Strike • Relentless Attacks • Destroy Armor
Juggernaut Skills — Bash • Cleave • Ground Stomp • Focused Strength • Stubborn • Recovery • Taunt • Stunning Blows • Two-Handed Weapon Specialization • Invigorated • Seismic Slam • Revenge • Iron Will • Crushing Blows • Seismic Effect
Battlemaster Skills — Battle Rage • Perseverance • Power of the Battlemaster • Iron Skin • Hammer of the Ancients • Battle Cry • Scavenge • Critical Attacks • Shield Specialization • Furious Charge • Ignore Pain • Deliberate Defense • Improved Battle Rage • Death Proof • Inspiring Presence • Natural Resistance • Mighty Hammer

Wizard Skills

Storm Skills — Charged Bolt • Thunderstruck • Empowered Magic • Lightning Speed • Storm Armor • Frost Nova • Deep Freeze • Power Armor • Static Charge • Electrocute • Ray of Frost • Lethal Energy • Improved Charged Bolt • Static Residue • Blizzard • Storm Power • Epic Storms • Shattering Ice • Tornado
Arcane Skills — Magic Missile • Arcane Power • Efficient Magics • Penetrating Spells • Disintegrate • Wave of Force • Arcane Armor • Arcane Weakness • Arcane Speed • Arcane Orb • Slow Time • Arcane Distortion • Mana Recovery • Improved Magic Missile • Temporal Armor • Teleport • Greater Mana • Mana Burst • Runic Might
Conjuring Skills — Spectral Blade • Spell Speed • Weapon Mastery • Damage Resistance • Stone Skin • Mirror Image • Conjured Armor • Conjured Health • Duplicate Conjuring • Meteor Storm • Acid Cloud • Conjured Power • Conjured Duration • Improved Spectral Blade • Hydra • Magic Weapon • Magical Impact • Slowing Strikes • Armor Piercing

Current System

In Diablo III, skill trees were replaced with skill categories. Each class has six, and each category includes three to five skills:

  • Primary (default LMB): basic skills that do not waste resources, or even generate them with every attack, have no cooldown, but deal less damage than other skills. Pants, Class-specific Items and Belts may enhance the damage done by these skills.
  • Secondary (default RMB): advanced skills that usually waste resources, but generally have no cooldown as well; basically, they are the main combat skills. Boots and Class-specific items may enhance the damage done by these skills.
  • Defensive (default 1): protective skills that are focused on protection or on disabling enemies (i.e. Crowd Control) rather than dealing damage. They usually cost no resources (or even generate them), but have cooldowns, and while some of them deal minor damage, their main purpose is survival. 
  • Tertiary (default 2, name of the category varies by class): powerful skills, usually they cost more resources than Secondary, and / or have cooldowns. These skills mostly deal damage, are considerably more potent than Secondary skills, but players won't be able to use them as often as they can use Secondary skills. Boots, Class-specific items, Pauldrons and Chest Armors may enhance these skills. 
  • Special (default 3, name of the category varies by class): these skills are usually semi-passive, enhancing the character and / or allies, or summoning pets and minions. Some classes can only pick one skill of this category at a time. However, these skills rarely do damage. Class-specific items, Pauldrons and Chest Armors may enhance these skills.
  • Ultimate (default 4, name of the category varies by class): these skills are usually the most powerful tools in the character's arsenal. They can be incredibly damaging, very potent Crowd Control forms, enhancing the character far beyond their usual capabilities for a short time (or even changing their physical form into a creature of legends) or summoning very numerous or very powerful minions. However, most of these skills have a very high resource cost and / or a very long cooldown. Class-specific items, Pauldrons and Chest Armors may enhance these skills.

Passive skills have a separate category. At level 10, a character has one passive skill slot, but can acquire the second one at level 20, the third one at level 30, and the final (fourth) one at level 70. Hellfire Amulet allows having five passives at a time. Passive skills can be taken in any combination, regardless of which active skills have been chosen.

Originally, characters can only have one skill of each category, and may not change the default button. However, with the so-called Elective Mode turned on in the Options, one can take any skills in any combinations, unless specifically stated otherwise.

Skills can be changed or assigned new Skill Runes (counts as changing skills too) at any moment when out of combat, and when the skill in question is not on a cooldown. If performed in town, the new skill is ready instantly, otherwise it has a 10 seconds cooldown before it can be used.

Note that each item can only have one "Increases (Skill Name) Damage by X%" Primary affix.

Primary Skills
Fists of Thunder • Deadly Reach • Crippling Wave • Way of the Hundred Fists
Secondary Skills
Lashing Tail Kick • Tempest Rush • Wave of Light
Defensive Skills
Blinding Flash • Breath of Heaven • Serenity • Inner Sanctuary
Techniques
Dashing Strike • Exploding Palm • Sweeping Wind
Focus
Cyclone Strike • Seven-Sided Strike • Mystic Ally • Epiphany
Mantra
Mantra of Salvation • Mantra of Retribution • Mantra of Healing • Mantra of Conviction
Passive Skills
Resolve • Fleet Footed • Exalted Soul • Transcendence • Chant of Resonance • Seize the Initiative
The Guardian's Path • Sixth Sense • Determination • Relentless Assault • Beacon of Ytar • Alacrity
Harmony • Combination Strike • Near Death Experience • Unity • Momentum • Mythic Rhythm
Removed
Guiding Light • Mantra of Evasion • One with Everything • Pacificism • Provocation
Cut
Impenetrable Defense • Radiant Visage

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