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====How Do I Navigate the Skill Tree?====

You can access the skill tree by pressing the menu button on your controller and using the right bumper. If you are under level 50, pressing right bumper once will show the skill tree, but if you are above level 50 It will show the paragon board so you'll have to press the right trigger to  switch from the paragon board to your skill tree.

The skill tree is not a grid, despite DPad working inside it. It consists of your active and passive skills under different categories, based on your character class. Let's focus on active skills first.

To find and assign an active skill, you can press the l3 button, (left thumbstick) to switch to a grid view which shows your active skills. Note that this window does not include passive skills. this window has two functions.

# While focused on an active skill,  Pressing r3, or right thumbstick, will close this grid view and go back to the skill tree view, zooming in on the active skill, You can now press the bottom action button to assign a skill point, or use the DPad to assign skill points to your active skill's passive enhancements and upgrades.
# The second function in the grid view is Picking up an already learned active skill and putting it on your action bar. Focus on one of your learned active skills and press the bottom action button. You now are in the skill assignment window with 6 slots, you can choose one and press the bottom action button to place your skill there. more on this window below under a new heading. After we address passive skills

To assign your points in passive skills, you must navigate the skill tree either with DPad or the left thumbstick.  This window could be confusing because It is not a grid and active and passive skills are laid out in groups under categories. Sometimes, to find a skill, you must find another skill, then go left or right from there as an example. Study your class and the skill categories and try to remember where each skill is, remember that you can use the active skill grid to zoom in on different places of this skill tree and use it as  a shortcut to get into different parts of the skill tree window. Unfortunately besides trial and error, There is no other way to find certain skills because to reach them you need to follow a specific path.