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What about respecs?
Volgore
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I plan to start out with the Sorceress, which -in my rather short beta session- i found confusing at times as i couldn't figure out skills, combos, synergies and such at a glimpse. So as usual, messing with yet unknown classes in a new game involves alot of trial and error for me -and with that comes respeccing.
I read that a respec costs about 220 pearls which is something around $20 and you'll get a free respec at lvl45.
This probably leaves me with investing points into skills that later on i'll never use (because perhaps they don't turn out to be as useful as i thought they would or don't translate too well from PvE to PvP), starting a class over and over again to get it right this time (PathOfExile..arrgh), googling for spreadsheet builds from a website and simply not buy skills to "just look and see and feel them out".
Even with the free respec at 45, when i could drop skills that weren't quite useful to me, i would again have to invest into skills that so far have been unknown to me, since i haven't had a chance to try them out.
Perhaps someone can enlighten me what's missing in my picture and how building and respeccing actually plays out.
I read that a respec costs about 220 pearls which is something around $20 and you'll get a free respec at lvl45.
This probably leaves me with investing points into skills that later on i'll never use (because perhaps they don't turn out to be as useful as i thought they would or don't translate too well from PvE to PvP), starting a class over and over again to get it right this time (PathOfExile..arrgh), googling for spreadsheet builds from a website and simply not buy skills to "just look and see and feel them out".
Even with the free respec at 45, when i could drop skills that weren't quite useful to me, i would again have to invest into skills that so far have been unknown to me, since i haven't had a chance to try them out.
Perhaps someone can enlighten me what's missing in my picture and how building and respeccing actually plays out.
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however there should be an ingame way to grind respecs... With cashshop being an option...
but then they need to make money, we used to have subs, but the majorrity of the population demands "free to lay" games.. Well to me they are a lay off
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If you really screwed up you rerolled, otherwise you lived with what you created or worked very hard to acquire a respec stone or whatever.
It added to character diversity, i.e. some MInstrel in DAOC used slashing weapons, some piercing. (both had differing strengths and weaknesses)
My Minstrel specd for piercing, and later when I wanted slash it made sense to start a new character including a different race for the strength bonus Highlanders had which benefited slashing styles.
Choices with consequences, something largely missing from modern MMOs.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
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Are Blade and Soul players also entitled because their weapon upgrade system doesn't have an 80% chance of destroying their Hongmoon weapon like in other f2p games? An objectively good mechanic is an objectively good mechanic, and an objectively bad mechanic is an objectively bad one. Entitlement doesn't even come into the paradigm.