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Does anyone else think it's ridiculous to have to pay $6 for respecing?
crysidia
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It makes it a pain to try different spec and to min max your character. If you make a leveling spec or PVP spec for leveling up but want to PvE at 60, it leaves you screwed and force to pay if you want to have an optimal spec. I mean you could do the convert AD to Zen but the rate is abysmal. And if you want to respec multiple times to attempt different specs to see what you prefer or what is best, you end up spending all your AD on respecs.
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But yes, many of us think the price is stupid.
...I think you should get at least one free respec per character, though. Especially since they haven't added all the paragon paths yet. Maybe something like a non-stacking free respec every month.
that's not the problem.
the problem is that many feats seem to be either: a) bugged or b) not working correctly. plus, PVE and PVP are two completely different ball games and classes like clerics and guardian fighters can have two completely different specs, etc.
it has nothing to do with entitlement. it has everything to do with it being flat-out ****ing stupid.
what if you want to try out a dps spec as a cleric? $6. what if you want to spec for PVP? $6. what if you want to spec for PVE? $6. what if you want to test out a different set of feats? $6.
$6 per respec is just ****ing stupid. stop trying to defend it.
i'm just glad they didn't take a queue from PWE and make respecs $20, as per PWI/FW/ESO; not sure if they're still $20 each, but back in '10, they had ridiculous prices.
Considering the game is constantly being balanced, the ability to respec your character is just as much for the devs' sake as it is the players. Otherwise, they'd have to make sure EVERY ability is equally useful and whatnot.
Also, many abilities sound amazing but are actually not that great and vice versa. Respec is a GOOD thing.
You CAN respec Feats for AD only but the cost at 54 is 112k AD or so, 2x what I've gotten so far. I'd like to swap some other powers around too besides just Feats though. Wouldn't be an issue if Foundry Exp wasn't nerfed though, I'd just reroll instead and spend the time on non-exploitative Farming maps to get back up lol
Oh and the worst idea is flying sharks with friggin lasers mounted on their heads.
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The ONLY excuse for a respec is for bugged feats and powers, which should be GIVEN to players when they get patched so they reallocate if the new power uses dont suit their build. Again, I'm not defending respec prices, I'm trying to destroy respec. Totally different battle plan.
You can see the paragon feats and powers before you allocate into them. On the powers, click on the bottom window of the character sheet under the power section where it says 'View Paths' and click the bubble next to the feats description to see the different feats.
It's just a silly cash grab.
The past games also werent riddled with bugs and missing a large amount of features aka paragons and full list of classes.
The power not doing what it claims to do is a perfectly fine "excuse" for the necessity of respecs.
The other unfortunate issue is that this game has a number of powers that are strictly PvE or PvP, including thread reduction/increase abilities which are practically essential for PvE but completely worthless in PvP.
In fact, you can put that down as another reason healers and tanks are hosed in your other thread.
Other cash shop items I have no qualms about but the price of respecs- both the $6 type and the limited AD-type- are far too expensive.
Unless Cryptic and PW were to ditch the item shop or make every item you buy Account bound that is a foolish thing. You wont keep to many customers if they mess up your build and suddenly find themselves with a gimped character who has a few hundred dollars worth of item shop stuff attached to him.
Another person who doesn't understand that this is an MMO, not DND.
There is no "planning".
The only planning people are doing is copying other people's cookie cutter specs because they don't want to risk taking bugged <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font>, which there is plenty of.
But if you know the skill is PvE, with buffs or debuffs to threat and the like, and you know your going to do PvP, then why would you take those powers and feats? You know your end game isnt PvE, why take PvE powers? Same holds true for the opposite feature.
I'm convinced these people are just trolls now.
Ignore them everyone.
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I agree, and would add that in D&D there are no hidden or overly complex game mechanics which makes it easy to research and plan a build. In D&D you can also create a high level toon and play it against various encounters at any time to test how it plays.
This mmo is a completely different ball game. There are too many unknowns to be able to just plan out a character from scratch like you can in D&D.
The problem (imo) is that the game is so new that many players don't what works and what doesn't. Older games you can just search a bit and find detailed builds. But of course this is still beta where powers could change drastically. If a power/feat doesn't work and someone puts points in it they will want a respec. If someone avoided that power/feat because it was broke, they might want a respec when it gets fixed. Not to mention things not added yet.
Overall I think they should take the $6 price tag off until they are confident enough to say the game is no longer in Beta. That'll give current players time to figure stuff out. And hopefully by then new players will have more information available. Again, just my opinion.