Skill points just gone from existence

when i used the skill tree to refund a bunch of points and make a new build, 20 points or so have just vanished, and cant seem to fix the issue.

id like to know if theres a fix i could try to resolve this.

It is very likely that you had previously put those points into a specific weapon set. In that case, you would need to click the weapon set to reallocate those points (or deallocate them from both weapon sets, in which case they become available again).

The way to figure this out:
In the top right of your passive tree, you should see

I Weapon Set: x(y)
II Weapon Set: x(y)

these should both be x(y) = 24(24) assuming you have picked up all skill books in the campaign. If one of them says less than 24 outside the parenthesis, this means you have points allocated into one of your weapon specific trees. You need to deallocate points from both weapon trees to regain them as regular weapon points.


They also show up as a different highlight on the skill tree.