Respec

[CaptainCalamari]

Are you able to respec feats?

[andersonm]

I don't think so - am near the end game and haven't seen anything.

One thing to be aware of is that activated combat skills are on a common cooldown.
So if you have Stunning Blow on a 2 turn timer, and Critical Strike on a 3 turn timer, and you use Critical Strike - you can't use Stunning Blow until 3 turns have passed.
Very different from most other games.
This seems to mean that spending 3 points to get combat cooldown skills is usually a waste, because you should really only aim for 1.

Edit: no, it seems this is wrong.. you can use stunning blow after 2 turns have passed. So every skill is put on cooldown, but they reset after the regular time for the skill.

[slartifer]

Oof, thanks for spelling that out. I didn't realize that... definitely makes clubs less of a no-brainer than I had been thinking, This especially sucks for the Officer since you can't really use the utility skills as-needed, you just get 1 shot every few turns of whatever your best ability is. Honestly makes me rethink a few things.

[Serverus88]

Its the same with Ranger, Why would I use anything other than rapid shot? The only issue I see is changing the CD for individual skills would throw the whole balancing of combat off.

[Candyman2000]

Originally posted by slartifer:

Oof, thanks for spelling that out. I didn't realize that... definitely makes clubs less of a no-brainer than I had been thinking, This especially sucks for the Officer since you can't really use the utility skills as-needed, you just get 1 shot every few turns of whatever your best ability is. Honestly makes me rethink a few things.

I haven't reached it yet but one of officer's abilities adds defending status till end of combat that's a 2 turn cd if it just adds on defending to everyone until combat ends then I would see that as a decent defense buff at the start of every combat and then the obvious choice is three turn cd one that adds an extra attack to all allies for till the turn ends

[Candyman2000]

Originally posted by slartifer:

Oof, thanks for spelling that out. I didn't realize that... definitely makes clubs less of a no-brainer than I had been thinking, This especially sucks for the Officer since you can't really use the utility skills as-needed, you just get 1 shot every few turns of whatever your best ability is. Honestly makes me rethink a few things.

The big one for hospitaliter for example is the why go for the single target stun that has a 2 turn cd when you can wait and get the aoe stun on a 3 turn cd later

[Aiven ✞]

Guys, you're not answering his question. He wrote "respec", not "reset" (in combat).

I wonder about this too.

[andersonm]

Originally posted by Aiven ✞:

Guys, you're not answering his question. He wrote "respec", not "reset" (in combat).

I wonder about this too.

No, there's no respec.

I just wrote it to point out a trap in picking feats.

[Furcas]

Yeah the game needs respec bad or mercs
need to be unlimited. It’s so easy to fall into trap feats that are so situational you never use them or find out things like specials put everything on cd. No reason to invest in more than one maneuver because of it outside of trying to make early game slightly easier.