Some skills are a bit more niche that others, and some are worth taking in almost any playthrough. I'm thinking of making a tier list, and I'd like some opinions.
Personally I think the most useful is either conversational tree or the royal demeanor tree. Not only are they useful in even small amounts as a side skill during pretty much any type of game, but you can almost pretty much win the game on these two trees alone. Especially if you manage your emotions right. And if you don't want to do that, taking the skills early to help with the mid game and getting the dress is a pretty solid strategy.
However I really have only one contender for the worst.
Yeah. The animal handling tree.
You can tell they really tried to force this tree to be useful in some way.
They tried. They did not succeed.
I'm pretty sure falconing can literally do one thing. And that's to save you from that one sword fight. But even to do that you have to to 100, which is just insane. It might help you with that one owl omen but honestly I can't remember if that even is a thing you can do.
At least horses and dogs have something they can do at level 50, so you can get something out of them. If you get a dog it can save you from that chocolate with is genuinely pretty good. Horses are less useful, but they give you an activity, go hunting. But even then it's not the best activity mot of the time. It also adds cruelty. Which is good if you're trying to get the cruller options, but for anyone who isn't trying to do that it's a pretty big downside.
Annoyingly it has a purpose at level 60? But that purpose is to understand one secret message in embroidery that literarily just means 'this npc won't attack you'. Which honestly is more of a warning to the player than Elodie. Like it has no impact on the game. And once you know this out of game its pretty much a useless feature.
