Give us the ability to save builds!

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Give us the ability to save builds ! Why is there no such basic option yet?
I would like to experiment with builds, but I want to be able to return to my original build if my experiments do not bring interesting results. At this point, I would probably have to write everything down on a piece of paper to be sure that I will have something to come back to in the next installment.

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Blizzards response - ā€œmake new characters and try new builds so that we can keep you playing longerā€

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they kind adressed it at blizzcon
they basically said they are looking into it but its no easy task

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Make it possible to save your current build, only one save slot. For easy switching back after a build test.
But also increase the respec cost by 100% at least. And in the future, the cost should follow the in-game gold ā€œinflationā€.

That could be okay.

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or just ā€œitemizeā€ it
bringing back Token of Absolution would be cool

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The positive for those wanting this system is that we basically know an armory type system is coming eventually

We donā€™t know what the system will look like though or the timeframe. So for nowā€¦ ehhhā€¦ have fun with the system as designed I suppose.

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Skill trees are easy to work/rework for a Player.

Paragon Boards are the real ā€˜builds issueā€™.

I only want 2 things:

  1. In-Game Paragon Planner. We can avoid 3rd party sites, 2 monitors, tabbing etc. We can add and subtract points freely, work out paths/builds(where yes, we can save a build).
  2. FULL VIEW/Zoom out of Paragon. This partial zoomed in view kills me.

Iā€™m personally not asking for a full-on ā€œArmoryā€ that saves items for build swapping.
Just a Paragon Build Planner(that we can SEE).

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Not allowed, you must waste time respecing, getting more gold to respec, etc.

Part of Time Played KPI.

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Itā€™s easy, they just want to withhold it from us. They already have the framework for it in the Cosmetic Cabinet.

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could be

but referencing a model and a color palette for each gear slot sounds a lot less trouble some than 200+ paragon points and board attachment, 50+ skillpoints, a specific ramdonly generated gear id for each slot and so on

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No need to save the gear tbh. It is only like 10 slots. People can just place the items in a specific place in their stash to keep track of them.
Hardly relevant compared to the paragon board complexity, where saving it at least makes some QoL sense.
I can only agree with MageCraft above, that the focus should be on a Paragon Planner. Being able to place your paragon points, before committing to the overall change, is such an obvious thing to do, that it is still amazing it didnā€™t launch like that.

In any case, saving the paragon boards is likely not a difficult task. When random websites can manage it, surely a small basement studio like Blizzard can manage it too.
But easy to see how some things could become problematic, like what happens to a saved paragon board the moment paragon boards are changed in a patch.

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A season 8 featureā€¦

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Weird how Diablo 3 managed to do something about this.

Such a shame that they didnā€™t look at even their past games at least, but oh well, this is Blizzard nowadays, only oopsies from them, and letā€™s not forget lots of ā€œmanaging expectationsā€.

I donā€™t know if things will change under Microsoft, but letā€™s hope.

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Not being able to save a build makes me play Diablo 4 less.
In Diablo 3 i could play whatever i felt playing that day,
Not being to able to save builds also prevents me trying out new stuff.
Not wanna level a new character to test or reroll after i found out a
build doesnā€™t work for me.

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Bwaaahahaha. Yeah, i believe that. They cannot figure out what 40% of 100 is. So implementing a way to switch between builds (like in WoW, for example), is certainly way beyond their intellectual reach.