Getting skills refund points?

[SirYanthon]

As someone who has never played before, but will soon, I hear that there are refund points you have to earn to be able to change your skills tree. How hard is it to get these refund points? How do you get them?

[StreamWhenGuy]

Orbs of regret, those you can farm or buy from vendors or players, and you'll gain some points through the quests as reward (I don't rememer how much exactly, 10 per difficulty for sure)

[The_Driver]

You can get respec points from side-quests (around 20 per character, characterbound) and from http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Orb_of_Regret

In most leagues you can trade with other players for them (except for those tagged with Solo, like SSF). They're usually around 1 Chaos each.

You get an optional reset (all points at once) each 13 weeks. You can't accumulate them and they are voided if you allocate a point.

Depending on how much you want to respec, it may be up to 120ish passive points from passives plus 40 from ascendancy nodes, so 160 respec points needed.

That's around 3 exalted orbs in the softcore challenge leagues, which is expensive if you need them all (again: you get twenty-something for just time investment), but not totally out of reach if you already banked on that character. Yet probably still more effective to relevel a character if you rush that character. As a comparison, some builds rely on single items that are worth double those cost to function.

[SirYanthon]

Thanks!

[az4a3l]

You get 20 hero slots for free so if you mess up your build just start over and wait till you get the free respec we all get at least 2-3 times a year, save your regrets to barter for currency you dont own, there is an endless need for regret in the game. You can use a few regrets to get stacks of chisels easily for example, when you reach mapping stage.

[PhilosophicalBrit]

Simply do sidequests