After reading it a few times I finally got what you wanted to express with that skilltree.
So in your version of skill tree it looks like there are on the upper side the linear 'special skills' which are on the right side of the chart in your image links. So one gets the impression that if you want to get one skill there, you need to place a skill point in the previous one. Meaning: If someone wants to get teleport, he would have to place a skillpoint into Managize, then into Fireheart and then into Wise Soul in this order to allow placing a skillpoint into his desired 'Teleport' with his next point.
At the same time the bunch of mixed skills on the bottom look like free-to-choose without further meaning.
for this reason I would re-structure the skilltree like this to clearify what it really means:
On the left side are the skills you will have to place points into, highlighted by the black shadow line to the bottom and right of the skill pictures. On the right side you have the automatical stuff that will only be influenced by the 'main tree' their inserted skills. The special skills you placed in your chart to the right will therefore have no direct connection between eachother and will also not have any further points you need to spend into aside spending one skillpoint to the skill to its left.
By how I understood it, you have to learn the skills of the left side in order. So you can not start with e.g. Arcane Blast, but have to skill energy Bolt first before beeing able to get a hand on Arcane Blast.
Can someone verify this?
Edit:
Ah, actually I wanted to give in my concerns, when I first read it (though I had to understand first, how the skillsystem works)
To me it looks like the combo mage+hunter is overpowered due to their combined crowd control effects combined with some damage skills, exspecially with hunter as primary class.
Why?
Because they have to gether the chance to lock down a target for whole 8 seconds (Achilles+Ice Bolt), ading the chance to teleport and place a bear trap for another 4 seconds, if the victim resonds late. And this combined leaves only 3 seconds in which all skills have cool down before the char can redo his deed.
If the victim is lucky and can avoid the bear trap (which would probably not be the case with NPC but morely to real players), then he has to strugle 'only' with 7 seconds in which his assassin is still able to teleport around or activate his minor haste. And if this misses, he can still Grapple to you (I should add that I am not sure about the effect of Grapple, but fallowing the translator, it probably means 'pull yourselfe to the target').
In other words: someone who chooses hunter+mage will have targets who can impossibly run away and are locked on a place anyways for the most time. At the same time the knight-class has not even one skill that locks down an enemy though he is due to his lack in range the one who suffers most by not beeing able to catch up anyhow or to hold an enemy in one spot.
The only reason for choosing knight right now would be in a PvE event in which an enemy would be
1. too fast to keep distance to your highspeeded hunterblood-floor-locker or
2. a monster that can itselfe entangle players and is immune to floor-locking when your hunter-mage teleports away after using one of his own floor-lockers.
Well, I wanted to post a balancing idea anyways but I was searching first if a plan how chars work does already exist - and found this topic via main page.
In my opinion there should be a clear rock-paper-scissors system in which each class outclasses one class but is weak to another. This should be something exclusive that only a class (like knight) has access to, maybe beeing even passive (I will think about it in a suggestion topic later), while the whole field of skills are still open for all classes as mentioned.
Well maybe I overact. after all this is still in alpha and nothing is nailed in stone. It was simply a first impression of what I stumbled over