POE 2 Fake passive points

When playing around with allocating passive skill points with separate weapon sets, I noticed that the game gives you fake passive points when allocating these separate weapon points. The points don't show up in the passive skill point counter or the weapon set counter, but you are able to allocate these fake points to multiple nodes. I call them fake because even though you can allocate them, the nodes don't actually activate. For example, allocating a fake point to a small node for +5 intellect doesn't actually give you the intellect. Another thing to note is that trying to build off these fake passive skill points with real points doesn't work.

I'm getting fake extra passives too.

I happened to notice I could keep allocating passives even without any Skill Points. I could allocate 8 this way and I also happen to have 16 Weapon Set passives (8 per set) so I think it's related to that.

They also don't link right on the tree. The gold link between allocated passives does not appear with these extra fake passives. As you can see, I have a bunch of them here.


They don't grant me their bonuses either. I noticed that after allocating these attribute nodes and assigning them to Strength, my Strength did not increase.

These extra, bugged passives still cost gold to refund unfortunately.

Had the same thing happen, game was allowing me to set 10 fake extra passive points, allocated 3 and they didnt give any of the bonunses. This was kind of fixed when restarting, as in I couldnt allocate fake extra points, but those already allocated remained the same.

Sometimes I get the same problem here.
Mostly when I respec the passive skills go back to where they are and sometimes set more than 10 fake nodes.
At this point I have respecc more than 5 times in a row and doesn't give back my Gold just set back my old nodes and undo the new nodes. So there is a problem when you can just softlock by a error.

Also happens to me but only for secondary weapon skill. Now I can’t even get it to go back to default or 1 which I want. No idea what’s going on. I’m on console so we are limited to holding triangle to pull up which point to allocate. I’ve only ever left it alone so it should be on “Main” which does both.

Now going over another node only lets me select weapon skill 2.

Just wanted to say that I also see this bug, and hope to get it addressed. It's really strange.

This almost drove me nuts in PS5.

I had a lot of fake points alocated and my character was feeling very weak.

Had to spend over 200k gold to respec and remove all bugged nodes to fix it.

The respeccing experience is also really bad. One wrong press of the Circle button on PS and everything you didn't commit is gone.

The tree needs a "respec mode" that fully resets the tree and calculates the gold from the difference of the previous tree and the new one, after you finish allocating all the points again.

I can allocate infinite fake points that do nothing.

Skill points says 0, but weapon set 1 and 2 points say 2.

I have about 10 fake passive points that do nothing as well. Is it possible it has anything to do with Controlled Metamorphosis Jewel? That doesn't work for me either. It allows to to place jewel and select passives but the passives don't do anything when applied. Seems bugged