The word 'only' makes me feel out of my depth, since I'm a nWoDie here going, "only?"
Though nWoD does have a skill specialization thing that can allow you to take a second dot if you pay for both the dot and a special merit. But besides that, skill specialties only being a dot is the norm to my understanding.
Heh- I came in on Exalted 2e and never really got into WoD. I've got the nWoD rulebook, I'm just not that familiar with it so