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Not very. On the other hand, people in a potential Negaquest would find themselves with choice paralysis, rather than AP Hell. Each Empowerment comes with a Skill tree for each Domain, and even with Learning, Studying, and Training to provide buffs, you max out at 25% of the Skill tree per training action, outside of Talents or Heroism buffs which can make it so you have much higher Skill caps and learning rates on those specific trees.
Not to mention about 70 baseline Skill lines. Melee, Combat has a ton. There's like ten recognized Melee types, Swords, Daggers, Clubs, Staves, Fisticuffs, Shields, Spears, Axes, Esoteric(chainsaws and other weird crap like Fans and Boomerangs), then Medium Ranged(Pistols, Non-Lethal falls here, Bows, though few people bother seriously training to kill with those these days) and trios for Long Range(Rifles, Machine Guns, Snipers), Extreme Range(Satellites, Artillery, Planes), Armor, Tactics, Culture, Empathy, Speech, Riding(Beasts, Cars, Planes), Perception, Education, Business(holds ties with general rulership via balancing budgets and resource allocation, alongside Education's precision, Culture's bureaucratic maneuvering, and Speech's charisma and peace-keeping), Forging, Machines(size, complexity, longevity), Virtual(processing, security, hardware), Invention, Stealth, Evasion, Explosives, and Medicine. Though you need the relevant Domains for specific mundane Skill trees to get ported over. Guns and Bows will suffice for both Ranges, while each Melee type will need it's own.
So, in theory, you could have hundreds of different Skill trees even if you only get one or two Empowerments based on energy, and having a base 75 in any and all of them even if you're facing debuffs or interference with your connection as a deity(like Talent, only being in proximity is necessary, for similar reasons) can be very useful, if only so they don't waste time training a million niche Skills.
So it gets more useful the more Domains you have, with energy-based empowerments having multiplicative effects, and less useful the higher the learning rate goes.
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