I’ve gotten several of each of the essences for free (especially the Andy/Duriel ones) except for the Diablo one from various freebie giveaway games. On top of that, every character obv. gets 3 for free from the quest.
Why does it have to be made completely free when it’s not that hard to obtain to begin with?
another person crying for free resets
No, wait, that is clearly an EXPLOIT, and NOT what was meant by “allow free and easy skill resets”.
Off the top of my head, the “free skill reset” implementation maybe this: you can change skills when you join a game. Once you leave town you are locked in these skills. If you exit and re-enter a previous running game you are still locked.
Feels like all the new D2 players that are demanding all these EZ mode changes have no actual interest in playing Diablo 2, or even know what Diablo 2 is. It’s just the latest purchasable game on bnet that they could get their hands on, and then complain about, and try to mold into something it isn’t, and never was.
Then Hell would be incredibly easy, wouldnt it? Cold+fire immunes, oh just let me just tp back to town and swith to lightning. 5 min later, lightning immunes!! No problemo, Ill switch back to cold. No needs for immunes in Hell, just go and spec. “Which build are you running with your Paladin?
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Look D2:LOD was never about having a Johnny on the Spot respecs like D3. In fact D2:LOD had zero respecs till Activision/Blizz put them it in patch 1.13.
Also this is not D3 so the Johnny on the Spot free respec is not needed. It is something that you have to earn. You earn a total of three from doing Den of Evil on all three difficulties. Need more than that then go earn it by getting essences to combine into a respec token. That is how all of us have been doing it and you can handle it as well.
hmmm… how about no?..
tokens are easy to obtain
then why not just get rid of them and allow unlimited respecs it’s not like it really changes anything except for for new players.
Most people know the specs by heart or know to google all the cookie cutters if they have played for a small amount of time.
Its called Token of Absolution.
I hoard 3 and sell rest, already traded away 3-4 of them.
So I dont see a point in anything else.
I think skill point respec is okay what we have now.
But attribute points I think should have easier respec since its gear dependence, & reset attribute at a cost because you change gears is more chore than any meaningful gameplay IMO.
There’s 20 years’ worth of info on every build possible online. There is no need to spend hours cheating in SP.
You just don’t like the idea of earning something do you. D3’s Johnny on the Spot respec system should stay with D3 and not infect D2R.
If most players either know the specs to play or have looked them up then they don’t need to have free respecs to try things out now do they.
I see no reason to change your attributes constantly when you have gotten the gear you want to finish your build.
How about no?
You have 3 resets from quests + you can farm the essences from final bosses to make a reset token.
If that doesn’t work, find a player to trade the token.
Don’t wish things were easier, wish you were better 
I took my barbarian to Hell at level 56, the level he was after killing Baal without doing any area twice unless dying horribly at a bad spot.
Now.
I can only imagine what would have happened if I didn’t know what I was doing with my last respec, or was playing the game for the first time or was playing druid thinking I could spec fire with my last respec, or whatever.
If you gimp your character, you’re not going to farm Diablo for that red essence, and sure as hell aren’t going to farm Baal for green essence:
It’s faster and easier to delete the character and start a new game than playing a gimp through Hell.
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Essences should drop in Nightmare at a lower rate.
You live, you learn, and you can always farm places again to level up and collect gear. There’s a good reason you can level to 80 or so just with NM Baal runs. To be gimped in hell isn’t the games faults, it’s always the player’s. While I wouldn’t be opposed to essences dropping from NM bosses too, I also don’t think it’s really necessary or needed.
it’s not for most players it’s for the new players it would have minimal impact on those of us who have been playing for years, the only reason to be against it is to not want new people playing the game and that is not good for the overall health of the game.
I remembered back when i accidentally distributed 1 wrong skill or stat point, i remake a character.
We have it so easy now already…lol
How is a complete lack of balance NOT the game’s fault…?
A game should not have skills that are utterly terrible and pretty much useless with maxed synergies.
Like.
Apart from Skyrim, what other RPGs have this random distribution of useful, overpowered, useless and horrible skills…?
I mean. I love the game for it’s mechanical depth, but it’s skill balance is pretty horrible.
Kludges to overcome a stupidly designed system.
(respecs) not needed the way YOU want to play the game? Which is not the way I and others want to play the game? Maybe you are a botter, running 10 bots 24/7 and then sell on ebay? Because I would bet you sure would not like the idea of respecs then, it would mess with your market. What I am saying is there are many types of players and you are not representative.