Cost to respec

[¤ OpN ¤]

Enjoying the game but how was this not addressed? Devs stated they wanted us to try stuff out then throw up a brick wall when it comes to the price of respecing. Very counterintuitive, please address this devs as it should have been addressed in the patch.

[identity]

I'm not unsympathetic, but even with a broken build after the patch, you should still be more than strong enough to farm gold in lower level zones to respec.

[iicycube]

You are mean to grind and grind for golds that nothing to fix unless you wanna GGG to make a "easy mode". Its not worst than childhood "maplestory"game that we need meso grinding.

[Pizzashot]

The weirdest part is that some nodes are 48302 nodes away from your starting point, and you got to waste a ton of money if you decide to test it out and it was not as good as you thought it would be. There is a node that gives you unlimited amount of totems that Warrior could use, but it is soooo far away and will cost a small fortune if you just want to try how it plays out.. I just want to test things but can not, because I have a real life with work and can not farm gold 24/7. And on top of this you have to also look for ugrades at the store, which is very expensive when you get to higher levels. This might be a lesser problem when you get higher levels and are showered by expensive drops but it is a huge problem when you are lower level and get close to no gold even though you sell EVERYTHING you find..

[Louro999]

Consider yourself lucky there is a way to respec, in the first place.

There were times when games were for players and there was no respec method of any sort.

[Kostil Vyaliy]

Yes, respec should be free or fixed price but not like now.

[SkaldedDawg]

With the build complexity, the respecs should be relatively easy to get.

[Doraver]

Originally posted by identity:

I'm not unsympathetic, but even with a broken build after the patch, you should still be more than strong enough to farm gold in lower level zones to respec.

Problem is, sometimes they brick builds to the ground. My clear time at least quadrupled with the recent patch. I'm not even gonna bother with passive tree, when they destroy the skill gem itself

[Phishfood]

Originally posted by identity:

I'm not unsympathetic, but even with a broken build after the patch, you should still be more than strong enough to farm gold in lower level zones to respec.

Farming is called farming because it's boring, it doesn't add anything to player enjoyment, doesn't even help the monetisation of the game.

[¤ OpN ¤]

To anyone saying this is easy mode.... What's the point of "EA" if not to experiment with aspects of the game? I'm not even having issues with it personally I like my build but it's an obvious glaring issue. So to make weird claims like "you just want easy mode".... No I just want to test the game like the devs would like us to do.

['norabseven]

Originally posted by Louro999:

Consider yourself lucky there is a way to respec, in the first place.

There were times when games were for players and there was no respec method of any sort.

No respeccing or super restricted respeccing is the exact reason I never played POE1, I don't have the time to sit and grind and grind for it which goes hand in hand with leveling multiple characters for multiple builds I just don't have the time or desire, it's also not fun to do.

If I ever get to a point where respeccing is too expensive for me to do and my current build isn't fun or powerful enough anymore I will just be done. Done as in I will leave and never come back until it's cheaper.

There is no harm in making it cheaper and affordable, currently if I wanted to respec everything it would cost more gold than I have and I haven't even been spending it, which is insane it needs to be like 20 times less than it is right now.

There are so many combinations and builds that I'd love to try out but can't.

[identity]

Originally posted by Phishfood:

Originally posted by identity:

I'm not unsympathetic, but even with a broken build after the patch, you should still be more than strong enough to farm gold in lower level zones to respec.

Farming is called farming because it's boring, it doesn't add anything to player enjoyment, doesn't even help the monetisation of the game.

I don't mind farming. Have done it for hours when I couldn't beat a boss. It's fun, to me, to find new things and see myself grow stronger. Might not be the genre for you if farming is not something you enjoy.

And not to sound like a broken record, but this is EA. They already said it won't be merged with live. Whatever you do here doesn't matter because it's basically a league of its own that will probably be dead once it's out of EA. If you don't like things that ruin the efficiency of your progression, maybe a beta is not for you.

[¤ OpN ¤]

Originally posted by identity:

but this is EA. They already said it won't be merged with live. Whatever you do here doesn't matter because it's basically a league of its own.

Very much this but it would also justify making repeccing cheaper because as you said nothing carries over to live, so you might as well give the player base an opportunity to experiment.

[Dr. Rockso]

I could see if EA was a new thing but EA has been around long enough to where you should know anything could change at a moments notice and if you have issues with that, you should have waited until full release.

[¤ OpN ¤]

Originally posted by Dr. Rockso:

I could see if EA was a new thing but EA has been around long enough to where you should know anything could change at a moments notice and if you have issues with that, you should have waited until full release.

Huh what does this have to do with the discussion to reduce respecing cost?

[Bimjee]

Maybe during first 3 acts they could. Why it always important to keep a decent bank before spending it all.