Can you respec?

[Elazul]

Wondering if you can respec in this game or if everything you choose is permanent?

[El Babuino]

Speaking of builds - you can change it any time when you're out of combat/spvp . Eventually you will have skill points for every trait and skill of your class. As for gear - you can relatively cheap change stats of ascended gear (top tier). Changing stats of legendary gear is free but it's quite expensive and sometimes grindy to get and it has same stats as ascended.

[Sychon]

Your traits (the backbone of your build), your gear and the skills you have on your bar can all be changed freely outside combat.

If you want equipment with different stats than what you currently have, that will cost you time, gold or materials or any combination of the three.

[Tyrian Mollusk]

You can never change your class or race, and once you invest hero points unlocking an elite spec, those are permanently invested, but you can always get enough of those, so they aren't a limited resource.

You can change character build (skills and specialization traits) freely between anything you've unlocked. You can even save a couple different builds and gear sets and hot swap them with a couple keypresses (out of combat).

[Mr.Person]

As others said, you can change specs and builds on the fly out of combat. You can even change gear and spec sets whenever as well and change them really fast with a right click of the "change weapon" icon outside of combat. Very handy

[𝒶מƚ𝑒]

Yes, You can respec as much as you want.

[natkar]

Your Race And Spec is perma ( warrior/engi ect) but with EoD dlc there is now 3 subclass for each class. You can respec that as much as you want

[jcm2606]

Originally posted by Tyrian Mollusk:

You can never change your class or race, and once you invest hero points unlocking an elite spec, those are permanently invested, but you can always get enough of those, so they aren't a limited resource.

You can change character build (skills and specialization traits) freely between anything you've unlocked. You can even save a couple different builds and gear sets and hot swap them with a couple keypresses (out of combat).

To put some actual numbers behind the "you can always get enough of those", there's currently enough hero/skill points in the game to fully unlock four elite specs (subclasses) with a few spare to start unlocking a fifth. Considering there's only three elite specs in the game right now, there's more than enough for you to change your build around.

[birdfoot]

You can change your spec (in GW2 terminology, known as "build"), at no cost, anytime when out of combat.

[miLes]

Imagine playing an mmo where skill choices are permanent unless you fork out cash for a respec scroll. Couldn't be me.

[Sychon]

Originally posted by miLes:

Imagine playing an mmo where skill choices are permanent unless you fork out cash for a respec scroll. Couldn't be me.

Ooh, which MMO is that?

[Drake]

Originally posted by Sychon:

Originally posted by miLes:

Imagine playing an mmo where skill choices are permanent unless you fork out cash for a respec scroll. Couldn't be me.

Ooh, which MMO is that?

I'm pretty sure chinese mmos are still like that.

[Drake]

Originally posted by Chronos:

The problem for a new player/ returning player is the gearing up part, the game has horizontal progression, yet there is a lot of bad decisions regarding currency system, time gates, and other stuff, specific build items that is harder to find/farm for no reason except punishing the player for wanting to play that way, it only changes stat distribution, so depending on which build you find interesting, you may need weeks or months to set it all up, while a few others you can get almost free from the auction house, to summarize, you get punished for wanting to play with a build you enjoy..

Player - "i want to play with build X, it's so fun!!"

Game - "Nope, that's only for the rich kids or those that spent at least a few weeks in game, you have to start with build Y"

Player - "But, but the only reason for me to be playing this character is build X right now, and your game ad on steam said i can play the game the way i want!!"

Game - "I don't care, give me money so you can play with it or just wait and do content you don't enjoy for a few weeks to unlock it.."

Player - "But my friend is having fun with his build at fresh 80, he even managed to save some gold for his runes and some bags cause his gear is from the same tier as the one i want, but very cheap, why can't i do the same?"

Game - "*shrugs*, if you don't like it you either push through or quit it, i really don't care, i got your money already"

Farming verdant brink for 2 days covers the armor, if you have access to living story, bitterfrost frontier covers the trinket part. That leaves weapons and you can buy some close enough stats to what to want on the TP by doing metas that don't require any real build.
Getting geared for a build takes less that a week, starting with 0 gold.

You're going to be ugly, that's a fact, but you'll function just fine.

Also, builds are not as rigid as people think they are. You can get by with cheap runes and sigils easily and no sgnificant power down. I do it all the time.

You skill matters a lot more than your gear. A skilled player with less than optimal gear will do far better than a newbie with optimal gear.

I've seen it a lot of times, I'm on a support build with a lot less power than some full damage builds and I'm dishing more ouput while doing other stuff than them because they just can't manage their rotas while positioning and cut their dps in half.

[Chronos]

Originally posted by Drake:

Originally posted by Chronos:

The problem for a new player/ returning player is the gearing up part, the game has horizontal progression, yet there is a lot of bad decisions regarding currency system, time gates, and other stuff, specific build items that is harder to find/farm for no reason except punishing the player for wanting to play that way, it only changes stat distribution, so depending on which build you find interesting, you may need weeks or months to set it all up, while a few others you can get almost free from the auction house, to summarize, you get punished for wanting to play with a build you enjoy..

Player - "i want to play with build X, it's so fun!!"

Game - "Nope, that's only for the rich kids or those that spent at least a few weeks in game, you have to start with build Y"

Player - "But, but the only reason for me to be playing this character is build X right now, and your game ad on steam said i can play the game the way i want!!"

Game - "I don't care, give me money so you can play with it or just wait and do content you don't enjoy for a few weeks to unlock it.."

Player - "But my friend is having fun with his build at fresh 80, he even managed to save some gold for his runes and some bags cause his gear is from the same tier as the one i want, but very cheap, why can't i do the same?"

Game - "*shrugs*, if you don't like it you either push through or quit it, i really don't care, i got your money already"

Farming verdant brink for 2 days covers the armor, if you have access to living story, bitterfrost frontier covers the trinket part. That leaves weapons and you can buy some close enough stats to what to want on the TP by doing metas that don't require any real build.
Getting geared for a build takes less that a week, starting with 0 gold.

You're going to be ugly, that's a fact, but you'll function just fine.

Also, builds are not as rigid as people think they are. You can get by with cheap runes and sigils easily and no sgnificant power down. I do it all the time.

You skill matters a lot more than your gear. A skilled player with less than optimal gear will do far better than a newbie with optimal gear.

I've seen it a lot of times, I'm on a support build with a lot less power than some full damage builds and I'm dishing more ouput while doing other stuff than them because they just can't manage their rotas while positioning and cut their dps in half.

I deleted my message and decided to make a thread about it, you can comment there if you wish to give your input about it =D

[Original Voltak]

Originally posted by Mr.Person:

As others said, you can change specs and builds on the fly out of combat. You can even change gear and spec sets whenever as well and change them really fast with a right click of the "change weapon" icon outside of combat. Very handy

YOU cannot change the points assignments once you place them

You cannot respec that

you are stuck with that

Skills and skill bar, yes

[DarkSlayer197]

Originally posted by Original Voltak:

Originally posted by Mr.Person:

As others said, you can change specs and builds on the fly out of combat. You can even change gear and spec sets whenever as well and change them really fast with a right click of the "change weapon" icon outside of combat. Very handy

YOU cannot change the points assignments once you place them

You cannot respec that

you are stuck with that

Skills and skill bar, yes

This forum post has been necro'd... You can respec armor and weapons but only on Ascended and Legendary. Ascended requires the use of materials and the Mystic Forge while Legendary can be done any time outside of combat.