Have only just encountered this stituation.

When purchasing a ranked talent for the second time, does the second purchase have to be a different and higher point cost ?

EG; Talent "A" is purchased for 5 points on the chargen specialisation, later PC buys second specialisation, which also has talent "A" and also at a 5 point cost and wants to buy this, what happens?

[1] PC buys talent "A" for a second time at 5 point cost, now has 2 ranks in talent "A"

[2] PC is not allowed to buy talent "A" but counts have already having it for purposes of connecting talent trees, must wait till a Talent "A" worth at least 10 points comes up to increase ranks.

Cheers

Number 1. You can buy the talents in any order as long as you are purchasing the top row or ones connected to a talent already pruchased. Same applies to newly purchased talent trees. The only time talents count as already purchased on a new tree is if it is unranked.

Having the same talents on different trees at different costs is just another benefit of specializing (which you pay a significant cost for.)

Doesn't matter how much the talent costs. That is just the benefit of certain trees.

Many thanks for the replies.

It would be terrible if that were the rule since some careers, like Slicers, are mostly from the bottom of the Slicer tree up.