>>725747903
>Should have been seperate pools of points.
no, it shouldn't. Again it would just get you stuck doing the same shit with the same weapon all game. How From makes you do it is not the gold standard that should never be challenged.
You go with what's comfortable to you until you either get comfortable with everything and switch around for fun or you hit a brick wall and try something new.

> So I put my points in big sword, swap to 2 sword and it has... 0 points in it.
you can only have 2 weapons equipped at once and diminishing returns in the skill tree nodes start very fast so you're pretty much going to be dividing between them between 2 weapons once you get past the early game. Except when dividing them they both don't suck, they're both very viable and you're encouraged to constantly switch between them using the special swap-attack. One handed sword is specifically a weapon moveset made to compliment spellcasting