Can you respec?

[AKOOMA]

Will we be able to completely reset all our skill points etc and respec them all at the click of a button instead of having to restart and regrind?

[The_Driver]

Might be a few more clicks to refund the points one-by-one, but you are able to use gold to respec.

Granted, respec costs in poe1 were mostly gear anyways, so having the respec points coming from a common pool instead might not make much of a difference.

[gachi is manly]

Originally posted by The_Driver:

Granted, respec costs in poe1 were mostly gear anyways, so having the respec points coming from a common pool instead might not make much of a difference.

I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Can you elaborate?

Going from regret orbs to gold cost seems like it will make a huge difference in how easy it is to respec. The gold costs look much lower than you would've paid in regret orbs for a large scale/total respec.

[The_Driver]

Originally posted by gachi is manly:

Originally posted by The_Driver:

Granted, respec costs in poe1 were mostly gear anyways, so having the respec points coming from a common pool instead might not make much of a difference.

I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Can you elaborate?

Going from regret orbs to gold cost seems like it will make a huge difference in how easy it is to respec. The gold costs look much lower than you would've paid in regret orbs for a large scale/total respec.

In poe1 you usually got enough orbs of regret to completely respect your tree for half a divine. A leveled and qualitied skill gem would often cost more than that with equipment getting into multiple divine territory very often.

So changing your spec from minions to lightning witch would have a negligible cost in regrets to the cost for items.

[gachi is manly]

Originally posted by The_Driver:

Originally posted by gachi is manly:

I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Can you elaborate?

Going from regret orbs to gold cost seems like it will make a huge difference in how easy it is to respec. The gold costs look much lower than you would've paid in regret orbs for a large scale/total respec.

In poe1 you usually got enough orbs of regret to completely respect your tree for half a divine. A leveled and qualitied skill gem would often cost more than that with equipment getting into multiple divine territory very often.

So changing your spec from minions to lightning witch would have a negligible cost in regrets to the cost for items.

I feel like if you actually wanted to respec because you feel like you bricked your build and couldn't progress through maps, then you probably weren't sitting on enough regrets or other currency to buy regrets in order to fully respec your tree.

Sure, there's definitely instances like you mentioned where you will have farmed enough by the time you want to respec to do it, but it's a lot more restrictive for the kinds of respec I think a lot of less experienced people are asking for.

Bearing in mind I'm just speculating myself. Maybe the gold costs get prohibitively high to respec the whole tree. I feel like GGG's plan was to make it easier for newer players to respec and not brick their build, though.

[Chiryuu]

Originally posted by The_Driver:

Originally posted by gachi is manly:

I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Can you elaborate?

Going from regret orbs to gold cost seems like it will make a huge difference in how easy it is to respec. The gold costs look much lower than you would've paid in regret orbs for a large scale/total respec.

In poe1 you usually got enough orbs of regret to completely respect your tree for half a divine. A leveled and qualitied skill gem would often cost more than that with equipment getting into multiple divine territory very often.

So changing your spec from minions to lightning witch would have a negligible cost in regrets to the cost for items.

That's completely false, after completing act 10 you could have like what 10-20 respec points?
Is it enough to respec whole tree? No.
So hopefully if you can respec with gold, there won't be such issues anymore.

[The_Driver]

Yeah, respec is kind of a range, but at the start of maps you should have a grasp of what you want to do, maybe just need some optimizations (so say 10% of nodes reallocated) instead of respeccing. Doing a complete respec there would seem very risky if you don't know what you're doing, you might just be rebricking your character, requiring more and more to redo it, possibly without having the resources built up

[thawn4444]

Originally posted by Chiryuu:

Originally posted by The_Driver:

In poe1 you usually got enough orbs of regret to completely respect your tree for half a divine. A leveled and qualitied skill gem would often cost more than that with equipment getting into multiple divine territory very often.

So changing your spec from minions to lightning witch would have a negligible cost in regrets to the cost for items.

That's completely false, after completing act 10 you could have like what 10-20 respec points?
Is it enough to respec whole tree? No.
So hopefully if you can respec with gold, there won't be such issues anymore.

In poe Half a divine gets you around 130 regret orbs you can literally log in and check the prices on the exchange yourself. . . did you even read his post?

do you even know what regret orbs do?

[Chiryuu]

Originally posted by The_Driver:

Yeah, respec is kind of a range, but at the start of maps you should have a grasp of what you want to do, maybe just need some optimizations (so say 10% of nodes reallocated) instead of respeccing. Doing a complete respec there would seem very risky if you don't know what you're doing, you might just be rebricking your character, requiring more and more to redo it, possibly without having the resources built up

Personally I'm a fan of complete free respecing, you want to play different spec? Change skills/items and respec your passive tree, and you are done.
In Diablo 4 they will b e adding armory in next season that let's you save specs, so you can eaisly change it anytime you want. Giving more options is always nice :).

[Pushet]

Starting last league you could also resepecc in PoE1 with gold. The gold cost during the first few acts was so low, that youd easily be able to change up a large portion of your skilltree if you wanted to.

But once you reach maps and are 70+ these gold costs are so high, that you wont be able to easily just respecc - youd have to save up gold first - tho saving up gold is a much more direct way, than hoping currency to respec drops / having to trade for respecc currency

To clear up the discussion from some people here: both of you are correct, neither of you seem to understand the others position.
A PoE vet will be able to "save" a build without restarting, even on a low budged. A noob cannot count on "just have a divine" - if they didnt follow a guide, their tree is most likely complete ass and even farming lower lvl zones will be a pain in the ass. But given that respecc for gold is now part of both PoE1&2, you still will be able to respecc in a reasonable amount of time if you have "bricked your build" and want to switch without rerolling.

[AKOOMA]

I've never plated POE or diablo long enough to know what any of this means.

I will mess up my build 100%. How long would it take me to get the stuff needed to be able respec the tree when this happens. From low level to high.

[The_Driver]

Originally posted by AKOOMA:

I will mess up my build 100%. How long would it take me to get the stuff needed to be able respec the tree when this happens. From low level to high.

We don't know. Balance is still undergoing.

[gachi is manly]

Originally posted by AKOOMA:

I've never plated POE or diablo long enough to know what any of this means.

I will mess up my build 100%. How long would it take me to get the stuff needed to be able respec the tree when this happens. From low level to high.

Not long, it would seem. Bear in mind nobody has seen the system in action yet to say for sure.

One thing we do know is, they wanted to make respeccing a lot easier, especially at lower levels, by making it just cost a bit of gold to do vs needing a bunch of regret orbs. This is something that they made a point to say in the recent reveal.

It's safe to say respeccing will be a lot easier to do with less impact on your bank account.

[Vagrant]

nobody answered the main question:
1-yes you can respec anytime you want outside of combat (in poe2)
2- to respec you need "refund points", it is 1:1 with skill points
3-you earn those points by doing quests or using a droppable currency called "orb of regret"
4-each passive point needs a refund point
5-in latest league, GGG put in poe1 the gold system and you can spent gold to respec by talking with a specific NPC (poe1 -> faustus , poe2 -> The hooded one as seen in the reveal trailer)
6-in poe 2, you can respec the small attribute nodes half of the price of another passive type, this doesn't apply on poe 1