I have seen over nine thousand people discussing this. This thread's purpose is to make it easy to reference Zinc's own words on the subject.
http://fidgit.com/archives/2010/02/s...ducer_warn.php
TC: I suspect this is something you've talked about to the community, because I can't imagine you haven't gotten a thousand forum posts about this, but where does Cryptic currently stand on letting players respec their characters at some point down the road?
CZ: Definitely respec is on the way. We're working on getting that in, making sure that gets out in the next month or two. It is something we definitely want in the game. It'll always be available with microtransactions, but more importantly you will be able to earn the ability to respec your character ingame. So, definitely it's coming. One hundred percent.