At least for solo playthroughs, kinda like how runes work with the Countess, an increase of essence drop chance from the bosses would be really nice to help those of us with very limited play time to experiment with builds, Even if only a temporary change. It takes me about 3 weeks to build a token.
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That long? You already get 3 respecs after finshing act 1 den of evil. You can use the d2 planner tool on the maxwell.gg website to plan things in detail.
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Psst, there used to be no respecs in D2, you messed up? Tough luck or start over 
And yeah of course now we have 3 free akara respecs, and even unlimited respecs via tokens now tooā¦try planning out your build a bit more in the future, or simply be okay with an āimperfectā character, itās not the end of the world to have a bit more in one stat or another, honestly.
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Why are you asking MrLama LOL?
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Try your build offline first, you should not have to respect 3x time, so Token need have a little challenge to it. I know itās annoying to convert file from d2r to d2 to use hero editor but itās the best way to try unlimited amount of build with different gear before building your online character. You can easily find pre-build file to download and try offline.
Personally I still have D2Lod, so I just try it for now on the old game but after 2.4, I will not be able to do that with every build.
And Why MrLlama? Trolling?
Is this an argument? lol
pssst they are making a balance patch. How did I mess up there?
Well, heās the lead developer of course
You appear to think this is a planning issue lol.
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Both our points are that youāre given plenty of opportunities to plan your characters out. If youāre really unsure, then use a tool like d2 planner before investing your stats/skills.
If thatās not enough, spend the 4 hours (seriously 3 weeks?) getting the essences to then do another respect. The game doesnāt need to change to accommodate for your specific request.
Youāre jokingā¦ right?
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Well, maybe he just doesnt have these powercreep suggestions like dbrunski or some of the other people here on the forum
It just a troll, his story do not make sense
Why is people posting for another person?.. Isnāt this forum so you would be able to speak out your self about your ideas / improvement thoughts, and not just posting what some tosser said on yt?
Next time tell MrLama to post stuff him self, and leave out posting for him.
Back in the days if we make one mistake who char is ruined, we either have to live with it, or rebuild a new char after the initial 3 chances.
Have no idea why people would complain about this essence things at all.
Itās existence is already way more friendly than old times
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You might want to try playing more than 5 minutes a day.
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You might want to try learning math.
Am I supposed to toss all my toons in the garbage every time a balance patch comes out? Donāt see why a game should stop evolving just because you stopped. Get off the internet and go back to your rotary phone.
He was laughing in one of his latest videos that people on the forums thought he was the lead developer because some people made a big fuss about it. It was just a joke, but now Iām curious how much dumber these responses can get even after I explain it.
I know what your point was, I just donāt understand how you thought it was an appropriate point to make. Planning a respec and actually applying it are two different things. I already planned, already respecād, and now everything is changing due to an upcoming patch. Comprendo?
Then just play the damn game 
the amount of time youāre spending here replying to everyone here with smart **** responses, you could have found at least 1 if not 2 essences by nowā¦ unless you really believe it takes you 3 weeks to make you a token, which in that case says a lot more about how good you are at the game more than the game needing to be changed to serve your needs.
How is this at all a good argument? So the game used to be worse, who cares? Player count increasing the drop chance of the dust would be a welcome change, in line with the way player count also increases key drop chance.
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We in the solo community do not need an increase in Essence drop-rate.
Essences drop just fine. Iāve got more than I will ever use even without actually looking for them.
You just need to be less lazy.
Itās providing context and perspective. Since those times, each character is given 3 respecs (thatās 4 chances to get your character right) AND tokens can be made by farming the act bosses. Thatās plenty.
Exactly. Iām short on tokens myself but I suck it up and spend the time farming for the tokens. It takes like 3-4 hours to get 1 token, or 20 hours to make a new character and level them up to a sufficient level.
For experiments, you can add -enablerespec command line parameters for infinite free respecs (alt click on stats - obviously single player only).
As for changing the gameā¦ Respecs are in a weird spot, every character gets 3 free respecs so tokens canāt really get very valuable; but at least the baal essence is a big pain in the backside to get.
A change Iād be down with - remove free respecs, make all essences except baal a bunch more rare, BUT let them drop on all difficulties.
I think removing free respecs will make tokens a better trade value, while making essences drop on normal and nightmare wonāt really make a big difference, because itās not really ātime efficientā to farm those areas - but it will let players who ājust want a respecā get it easier
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Clearly the OP and I disagree with you. Iāve never used the respecs as a means to āget my character right.ā I use them as the difficulty ramps up because certain builds scale badly. For example, leveling normal and most of nightmare as a holy fire paladin, respec to hammerdin, then finally to zealer.
The extra respecs on top of that are so I donāt have to make more characters if I want to try other builds. It makes sense that player count should increase the dust drop chance.
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Donāt bother the D2R lord and savior Llama. Heās figuring out ways to ghost-buff the sorc and ensure no other classes achieve the sorcās power level.