Nerf is Understandable, but Free Respec is a Must to Keep Players Engaged

I think if GGG will not act swiftly and reduce respec cost to 1g per point; ppl will leave and numbers of players will drop drastically.

I have been incredibly frugal with my gold and I do not have enough to do a full respec.

What am I supposed to do now? Farm for gold with a build that doesn't work and watch my respec costs go up even more as I level up?

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ProMeTheus113#3687 wrote:

But isn't the point of EA to prepare the game for release? I usually prefer when respecs aren't free in RPGs, because it gives some weight to spec choices and also prevents respecing at any time to morph your character to each encounter instead of playing and making your build for everything you want your character to be able to do.

And I absolutely hate when games force me to quit them because I can’t afford the time or cash commitment in order to make a minuscule change. There is absolutely no incentives for me, who loves trying new skills/weapons and classes just to be shoved against a wall and shaken off all my gold that I could have better invested into gear.

I swear, free respecs should seriously be considered as adhd accessibility option.

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Sandcubicle#5745 wrote:

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ProMeTheus113#3687 wrote:

But isn't the point of EA to prepare the game for release? I usually prefer when respecs aren't free in RPGs, because it gives some weight to spec choices and also prevents respecing at any time to morph your character to each encounter instead of playing and making your build for everything you want your character to be able to do.

And I absolutely hate when games force me to quit them because I can’t afford the time or cash commitment in order to make a minuscule change. There is absolutely no incentives for me, who loves trying new skills/weapons and classes just to be shoved against a wall and shaken off all my gold that I could have better invested into gear.

I swear, free respecs should seriously be considered as adhd accessibility option.

Right but in a ARPG with trading and coop, what affects some players affects all players, so I think it's better to find a middle ground where respecing is possible but incurs a cost. What kind and how sizeable the cost is to determine and would have pros and cons!

Since they lowered the Respec cost why keep asking for those free respec ?

If you decided to partially respec your build it is easily done so after a couple hours : farming endgame maps grant easily hundreds of thousands in gold . I got close to a million in gold right now even though i did respec whole parts of my tree recently .

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FrostedLogic#3691 wrote:

A free respec option would go a long way in letting us continue enjoying the game without feeling like we’ve wasted our time or have to quit entirely and start over again.

My brother in Kitava, PoE used to have barely any respec options. If you bricked your build, that was it unless you obtained a crazy amount of orbs of regret from trading or farming. A gold respec price is miles better than orbs of regret/campaign points that we had in 2022 when I started playing the first game. That being said, I do wonder how they handled it in PoE1 beta back in the day.

PoE1 and 2 have a seasonal model. It's better to not get attached to your current character, especially not in EA. Respec being free will also not let them tune the costs for release, unless it's an option for lower levels (sub-20) which I guess is not the problem of this post, because at lower levels respec was rather cheap (I did it quite a bit to swap between dex/str/int points).

I don't think GGG should push his "ideology" during EA.

There are many new players, some of them have probably never played an arpg.

EA should be an enjoyable experience for everyone.

It is kind of free respec already, just cost some gold by now we have few milions of gold and its easy to get just do some maps. No need to save gold, or try some new character new build its early access experiment waste curency on crafts, have fun.