Because restrictive respecs might exactly give them that player retention and replay value? Seems more likely at least, as it just makes the game more interesting to play overall.
If you thought that build would be fun then why werenât you playing it to begin with? This is why we need full trading. If you find a good item for a build that you donât find fun then you can trade it for an item that supports your desired build. That way you donât feel obligated to run a build that isnât fun for you.
More interesting to have to potentially divert your playtime from the pursuit of fun in order to pay the cost(s) to get some play variety?
Those who donât want to respec can not respec.
Those who do want to respec can respec.
Thereâs no need for a cost for it. There are plenty of other factors to weigh in on playersâ decision with regards to whether or not they respec.
Weird how I can play whatever I feel like in D3 but if I want to not be absolute trash in something like PoE I have to use crap like path of building and follow it because itâs a pain in butt to respec.
If you donât want to trade you donât have to. You can always switch to a spec that you donât know if it will be fun to test out a piece of gear. You will just have to pay the gold cost to respec and farm out new gear with the stats you need for that spec. Unless you get lucky and all of the necessary stats for the new spec were the same as your old spec. I doubt that will be likely though.
I donât know about you but itâs a chore just to consider multiple builds to begin with.
But unfortunately there are people that will do this so your statement is inaccurate at best.
Well fortunately for you each season youâll have to make a new character for those said updates.
They lose players each season, just as PoE does. But, that player base comes back for the start of those seasons so what is your gripe again?
I clearly see with this thought how easily it will be to circumvent their removal of the âreset dungeonâ button and exploit this feature.
Sadly itâs even more of a chore to respec than you think. There is no respec button to click on in paragons. What you choose there is what you get and if you need to fix 1 mistake you made on a board you will be right clicking for a long time and the cost remains the same each click. So doing a respec while out in the wilds is not something anyone will be doing. As such it will take some time to rethink that board.
What I am seeing here is that you absolutely want D4 to be the next D3 where the vast majority of players are tired of doing GR 150s. I get it you probably havenât done it solo yet but stop trying to make D4 the new D3. When you finally see end game your decision to respec will dwindle.
And to be clear, they did design the game around respeccing paragons while in a GR until it got so bad because of the abuse they eventually locked it down where you could not.
I donât think itâs done horribly wrong. I think itâs the pandering to players that want things easy. I can tell you the total cost to respec your entire paragon boards and then where you can farm that gold back in under an hour in WT4 but NDA says I canât. Until you get to end game just know this, this entire argument is moot and you should make haste to end game.
Iâm pretty sure that question about a macro keyboard, which was answered by a Blue post in D3 forums back in 2012, trumps the MVP response in a WoW forum in 2020 where ToS is vastly different.
It wonât change if they see player avarage gold, which clearly they can per the e-mail sent to each player that participated in beta.
If it is free to respec, you play less because you continue on the same character, if you are bored to pay, you create a second char, play more and are more susceptible to buy stuff from shop. Blizzard is a cash machin, every single thing that makes you spend more time in this game is elaborated intentionally and carefully.
Accept it, 10 years for a new Diablo version it has a cost, the game is good, play the rules and damn it give your money man !!!
Iâm just glad we are finally getting a reset button. I just hope that its per board and not just full reset. The cost doesnât bother me. Although, if it turns out I have to reset all the time because of these resist changes, I may change my mind on that. I also wish there was a way to save specs and just swap even with a cost if necessary.
Because thatâs what you should do if adding information to an existing topic, if itâs still relevant. And it is. It doesnât matter if itâs old. D2 has 20 year old threads on some sites that people still use religiously to figure things out.