Warhammer 3: how to reset skill points

To reset skill points in Total War: Warhammer III, open your character's Skills tab and use Reset all skill points. Your character becomes wounded for three turns. Once they return, you can spend their points again. Plan the absence before pressing the button, especially when that character is essential to your next battle.

The built-in reset arrived with patch 4.1 on 21 November 2023. This covers the unmodded computer game, available on Windows, macOS and Linux, with later changes checked through 28 October 2026. You can use the game's own control instead of installing a respec mod.

Find Reset all skill points

Open the character you want to rebuild and select Skills. Look in the upper-right corner, beside the Skill Points counter, for the circular reset icon. Hover over it and check the tooltip: Reset all skill points. Read the character's name at the top before committing, so you reset the intended Lord or Hero.

Use that control for a full rebuild. The reset clears the character's allocated skills and wounds them; you redistribute the points after their return. Choose a quiet campaign moment when you can manage without them. If you need their present skills for an imminent fight, finish that job before starting the reset.

Wait for the character to return

Allow for the three-turn wound period before rebuilding. A character disappearing from active use after the reset is the expected consequence. Wait until they return, reopen Skills and allocate the available points to your new build. Their return and the ability to spend those points are your checks that the process has finished.

Decide which abilities you want before allocating the returned points. Rebuilding around a different purpose is useful only when you can afford the interruption. Keep the reset separate from campaign access: if a leader is locked before you can start playing, use the Legendary Lord ownership checklist to check their entitlement.

Check the update if resetting misbehaves

Update the game before retrying a reset-related fault. Hotfix 6.0.4 fixed a crash when resetting female characters' skill points. Hotfix 7.0.3 fixed a separate Kairos Fateweaver issue that allowed only one spell to be selected after a reset. Those older faults have specific fixes; use an updated installation before diagnosing the same symptoms.

Still having trouble? Record the character, game version and exact behaviour, then report it through the official bug-reporting forum. Include screenshots and a save file, and say which mods you use. That gives the team a reproducible case rather than treating the normal wound timer as a failed reset.