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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AFGNCAAP" data-source="post: 4038308" data-attributes="member: 871">Neither can I.  Then again, SWSE still has Prestige Classes, as well as a 20-level limit, so I'm not sure if this will manifest in 4e as it has in SWSE.  Maybe a kicker to defenses at X level or when pursuing a particular Paragon path, but not really anything on the scale of SWSE due to the lack of PrCs and the 30-level stretch.I'm not so sure about this.  If this were the case, it'd been addressed in the SWSE errata (and, AFAIK, it hasn't yet).  I'd also say that "keep the best, ignore the rest" really shifts the favor to multiclassing (esp. into 1 or more Prestige Classes), making it rough for single-classed characters.  IMO, using the "current class" modifiers is a bit more balanced since you take the good & bad alongside each other (and, since class level provides a bonus, this works out OK).I think it's a matter of when you can invest in these skills, though.  It may not be feasible to begin with a character who has training in both Perception and Initiative (the Jedi with its 2 trained skills really limits the choice to Use the Force and 1 other skill, barring Int and species mods).  A character can always burn a feat to get Trained in another skill later on (and then Focused in that skill even later), but the key thing is that the character only gets so many feats within the 20-level span, and some of the feat chains are rather extensive, IIRC (esp. getting feats that mesh well with particular talent trees).</blockquote>

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