I am not sure how I feel about it. Especially, when they can and will re-balance skills, which will force you to remake a character. In D3’s that’s not a big deal, but the feeling I get here (from rhykker’s live stream interview) that leveling here will be much slower, thus leveling each skill tier will be slower too…
I get why they want to make it 1 time thing, but it makes me leery thinking that 100’s of hrs of leveling would go to waste.
Thoughts?
Yay, Big Yay.
I dont want people making whatever with no effort involved otherwise you end up with EVERYONE on the same build
Definite yay… Choices should be permanent, or at least semi-permanent with a chance to respec later. If there is no hard choices, it is no fun. Easy respect turns to lazy gaming where you can just change skills based on what your doing. No, If you want to do something else, make a new character for that. That is the fun in build diversity.
Yay. Permanent or costly respec.
or a ultra rare drop respect item… D2 had a quest that did respect, that could be an option too.
Nay, I get not wanting characters to change skills more than their underwear, but making it permanent is going too far I feel.
Yay!
They could have free respecs with major balance patches I guess, but otherwise, less respeccing adds to the impact of making choices, and to character identity.
Nay, but should be either:
it doesnt have to be 100% permenant. but being able to change specs on the fly is bad… Like I said, maybe an ultra rare respect item, or a quest that gives you the ability to respect should be sufficient. If you want to constantly change builds, then you should have to make a new char.
Nay. Back in the old days, sure, permanent choices work. Like D2 or the original Hellgate:London. But now we are heading towards 2020. I want to have the flexibility to try out new things in a reasonable amount of time. I want to spend time with the game. Not spending time in the Internet to research on builds just because I don’t want to make the ‘wrong’ decision.
Yay! Hoping they also make skill trees separate like fire-ice-lightning and with synergies in each tree, example 1 point in fire ball will make meteor do 12% more damage as in d2. Making people not specc all around, of if they do they need to consider they loose some synergies
hm D2 had 3 respects, thanx to the first quest of each difficulty. Thank you. Being able to respect on the fly is bad. I wont support it, I believe in hard choices. Something like an ultra rare respect item, or a couple respect quests should be fine. If you are someone who cant make up your mind on your build, then have fun with making new chars. I want hard choices and build diversity.
Nope.
Ability to change your skills encourage experiments and trial.
Also, don’t you think it would be annoying if the balance patch roll out and congrats, your current character is useless due to nerf, and please remake a new character.
I remember this is what happened to me in D2 once the LoD kicked in where my classic Cold Sorceress was totally helpless against Cold Immunity in LoD, which force me to remake a new sorceress, only this time with dual-element.
This and D2 has the Tokens we can work for which require 4 different essence found from all 5 end act bosses.
yes, however I think this happened after I left for boot camp 
Yay permanent or extremely prohibitive respec… Something like 4-8hr worth of efficient farming to respec.
Hm, 4-8 hours is very relaxed… To me, you should only be able to respect a few times. More giving you can farm a respect item. I don’t like easy respects. Make our decisions count for something. Make our characters a reflection of us. Don’t make characters easily changed for people who don’t want to actually work for their character. Easy respect is lazy gaming.
Yay.
The only means to respecc is by getting a somewhat rare material is something i can get behind though. But NOT respeccing for free. It reduces your attachment to your character. And you get bored more quickly.
I have 7 kids and little time. I say NAY, my time is limited.
If they make it work like Path of Exile where you can obtain items that let you reclaim skill points, it could work fairly well. Permanent with no way to change a mistake is not looked upon well by most players, especially if it takes a long time to level up.
PoE has it right with this particular aspect of the genre. Hopefully D4 takes notes on that.