I feel like with the drop of 2.4 the respecs per difficulty should be reset to take advantage of upcoming changes. Some of us can’t farm for the magic dust the bosses drop in Hell with the characters we have and yet have no ability to respec.
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Yep absolutely agree. These are wide-ranging and very significant changes to the skill trees of every class. Being forced to farm each of the Hell bosses dozens of times in order to re-tune your character to these changes is absurd.
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That’s okay, you get 3 free respecs per character, you can use one of them to respec to something that can kill bosses in Hell and you can then farm the ability to respec no problem
If you already wasted all 3 and still can’t beat Hell bosses, idk what to tell you except this is Diablo 2, and “now you know”
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and then
there is also trading
please stop with all the excuses
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there a quest call Den of Evil and a NPC call Akara
be glad that 1.13 brought respect in years ago
1.12 and earlier you had 0 respect from Akara and no token farm
and like Zax…if your having problem still after using all 3 of your respect from Akara i would heavily recommend start over from scratch and seek some guidance from a player or a guide(though guide aren’t alway perfect)…
if your serious though…start over as a Blizz Sorc and farm the heck out of Hell Andy and Hell Meph untill you got 2 skills rings…Arachnid Belt…Viperskin…Magefist Gloves…Chancie Gloves…Verdungo…Andy Face…Stormshield…Shako
note: Andy the only enemy with high drop rate of SoJ/BK ring…4X highter than other acts bosses chance for it
if you need MF gear…collect ALL Blue ring A2 Normal(Tombs onward) and hope to find 1-2 40 MF ring…A2 only has the Tombs in Normal for them…canyon and b4 that they cant drop…A3-5 anywhere in Normal can drop them…A1 to A5 in NM and Hell drop them
Chancie Gloves are best hunt on Hell Andy + best spot for SoJs/BK Rings
NM andy cant drop BK ring but has highter drop rate of Chancie//SoJs than Hell Andy
War Trav Boots…Hell Andy/Meph
4 socket Monarch to make spirit…hell Cows…or if lucky someone will feed you 1 as a freeby
+skill amy…Tal Amy best hunt place is Andy…nice place holder untill rare or craft
I can beat them easily. I shouldn’t have to beat them multiple times over at every major patch and for each high level character I play so as I can keep my carefully designed builds optimal in accordance with the rules. That’s just silly and why no modern RPG does this.
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upcoming patch ain’t changing the gear you need…it only open up spec that were previously unplayable(at least they’re attempting to make them playable)
its pretty much the same as if they were adding a new class
if was another game you likely start over from lvl 0 in such case
edit: when you farm enemies u get loots for multi-class already…if you discarded your find thats on you…anyway after that second post i will go and say that your trolling
if you rly kill them with ease as you say…that mean you got thousands of runs done and already wear top end gear…in such case that mean you should have find those essences X40 each at least
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The changes to the synergies for certain class skills suggests otherwise, including a complete loss of synergy effects for certain skill combinations. Skill points spent in skills in order to upgrade another skill through synergies could now be wasted entirely. That effects current builds, not the newly viable ones. Further, chosing to use different skills from the class is hardly likely to mean an equipment change in most cases, especially not for those playing more casually on Hell.
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I mean, giving the option for free respecs with every major balance change is pretty standard practice in games these days. Easily implementable too.
If it’s not done, it’ll probably just drive up the cost for tokens, so anyone who’s been hoarding them could make a tidy profit.
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if you loose 200% dmg from a synergy but 2 other skill get buff to boost that lost…your not loosing any dmg
Skill 1: 200% synergy remove
Skill 2: 8% Synergy per point—>13% per point
Skill 3: 8% Synergy per point—>13% per point
do the maths
I have no difficulty in doing it, higher level equipment would allow me to do it faster. I have no desire to do thousands of runs of bosses, at least not in a shortish time-scale. I am a casual player. I’m coming to the conclusion that there are elitists who want to keep optimised builds elite by making respeccing difficult after a patch. No. Adjusting your build for rule changes should not be a motivation for grind. Very high (post-completing hell levels to 99) and high end equipment should be. Not the ability to sensibly tune the use of your skill points in the current rules given your available skill points.
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And the 10-20 skill points spent in a skill which I don’t use and which no longer synergises with anything? That could have been spent elsewhere but I don’t have a crystal ball to predict Blizzard’s rule changes…
Do the maths 
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The ONLY way they can do this effectively is to reset all your stat and skill points on each character you have.
Akara makes no sense because if you haven’t done those quests, you get no “free” respec.
Tokens, while an edge case, can’t be given if your character has a full stash.
Ya’ll just want a free respec because you want a free respec. None of the existing metas including characters you have already leveled and geared are affected here. Stop trying to get free crap.
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Reset that quest on all levels for every character. Doesn’t matter if they haven’t done it. I’m sure our high level hell-Baal running characters can cope with the den of evil? This is of course assuming that the game doesn’t store the information somewhere that you have completed the quest in addition to whether the respec has been taken. I am pretty confident it does.
And yes my preference would be for respecs to be liberalised more in general. I don’t see a convincing argument against this other than in ladder. I wasn’t aware that we were competing or that keeping up with Blizzard’s changes in patches is a game-objective.
if you meant Death Sentry…the lightning dmg from it was alway irrelevant…Lightning Sentry dmg was 2X Highter…only reason you would use Death Sentry is Corpse explosion…so if you put 20 point in it and just gonna use it corpse explosion anyway…what are you loosing there ?..it dont matter if it lost its synergy for the lightning dmg as it was never use for its lightning dmg in the first place
basicly…getting that corpse explosion is now a choice on weither you want it or not now your no longer forced to invest in it to power up Lightning Sentry
chance your referring to that skill is rly high and ya…your rly not loosing anything cause of it
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It is when the game is designed around it, sure. But D2R is designed around D2. And D2 didn’t even implement respecs until 10 years after launch. So, and idk personally, but is it really so easily implementable for D2/D2R? If yes, then sure, we should get respecs. But if no, then we should continue to just be thankful we’re allowed respecs at all (Akara), and by and large, it’s in our control (essence/tokens).
Skill 1 -200%
Skill 2 5x20=+100%
Skill 3 5x20=+100%
-200%+100%+100%=0
The maths show that there is fundamentally no difference
This. The game already has respecing built into it. Stop trying to turn D2 into D3. There is absolutely ZERO reason to reset Akara here. IF they were to nerf skills, then yes I would agree to a respec. They are not doing that here.
Stop trying to get free crap and turn D2 into D3.
Except a character taking that build now wouldn’t spend the extra points in an unused skill. Those extra points mean bonuses elsewhere.
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So you just played yourself then (whether you know it or not), in some cases it’ll be even easier for people to farm essences/tokens after patch, not harder.