Confusion about mastery points

[reactor24]

Hi,

Firstly, I apologize if this is a dumb question or has been answered before.

I was reading some threads on witch hunter (viewtopic.php?f=75&t=11598) and I noticed in some of the builds they posted (e.g. http://waronlinebuilder.org/#career=wh; ... :;0:0:0:0: ) they had points that went past the skills they were getting (1 point in path of judgement past pistol whip).

Is there any benefit to getting points in a tree past the skills/tactics you are picking up? Like is there some sort of passive attribute boost or boost to the skills from that tree?

Thanks,
Dozo

[Lileldys]

Each level in the tree boosts the level of the skill, so more damage

[reactor24]

Each level in the tree boosts the level of all the skills for that tree? Wow!

[Ramasee]

Each of your core spells will gain one rank per level. They will be rank 40 when you are rank 40. Spells that belong in a path will only gain one rank every level that you do not gain a mastery point. Thus they will be rank 25 when you are rank 40. Each point you place in a path, will increase all abilities in that path by 1.

This attirbutes to more damage, or in some cases higher buffs/debuffs.