When to respec re tank/healer? (PvE)

[civilization]

I'm new to the game and I'd like to make a healer and I'd like to make a tank, but from what I'm reading I'm getting the impression that it's only practical to start out as DPS. Firstly am I right? Secondly when am I going to have to respec and will it be only once? I'm concerned that by the time it's time to respec I'll be respeccing out of a playstyle I'll know into one I'll have to learn from scratch.

[Drake]

When leveling it's not that bothering to change your spec, in the sense that you're just changing skills, as you can't really stuff yourself, so you can't get proper heal or tank items (dps too by the way).

You can level up as a dps, and while doing that you put some heal skills in your bar to level them up. And when you go in normal dungeons you just put all your heal skills in the bar.

In any case, you can only make a proper fps, tank or heal build once you're cp 160, because stuff matters and you can't have proper gear while the scaling is still active.

And don't worry, whatever dps playstyle you think you're going to learn while leveling, I can assure you, it's not going to be how real dps to their rotations, because weaving takes a lot of practice with a build to reach proper dps for veteran content.

[DiabolicToaster]

At around lvl 45 or 49 you get free skill and attribute reset scroll as rewards in lvling system. They are character bound. Its cheap at the start because you might have a low number of skills (it goes up with the number of skill pts you have I have one that costs 11k (100+ pts), so I only do it if I need to otherwise I try to ) and the attribute is also cheap.

I would also do what the guy above says. The gear cap is cp 160, anything below is for research, using on another character (training traits) or material. Its only once CP starts becoming difficult to increase like 600-700 where you shouldn't worry anymore. 300 is about the point where you should feel CP being a significant amount.