If Significant Respec Costs Existed in D3

[Skelos-2150]

@Shadout-2849

impossible to prevent people from copying builds

Yet it’s possible to prevent people from copying META as I wrote before:

@Skelos-2150

To have what you want in Diablo there needs to be AI involved and the game variables (ALL OF THEM) for each player have to be unique/different each Season from all other players. This means my fireball damage at lv1 would be in the range of 1 to 100 (randomly) each Season. In Season 1 I could get fireball damage 55, you could get 95, but I can get frozen orb 95, and you 55 (there would be still some rules regarding randomization of variables applied done by the AI, so that some players aren’t running super hot, while others run extremely bad). Then my tree would be different than yours, just as my stat range on items, the legendary rolls, everything having a variable… And online guides would be bricked if our game is complex enough (since you’ll lose more time to enter all variables in the online trainer/planner than to play the game yourself). And you’ll have meaningful choice regarding what’s META FOR YOU.

But Blizzard won’t do that since this raises the skill cap tremendously and you’ll have cry babies not knowing what to do all over the place.

@MicroRNA-1507

you have neglected the fact that respecs allow players to try “off-meta” builds

No, I haven’t. Playing with off-meta build is a choice you make and it doesn’t mean you should get a cookie for it. You get one when you discover a better build.