As the title states. For context, I’m a level 54 Druid. Very casual player. Maybe 1-3 hours a night to every second night. So for the players that have a lot more time, this may not be as of a big issue. But I’m sure no one is going to come forward and state that when changing builds, it’s not a mind numbing etc.
I’ve been playing mostly pulverize bear build. I thought it was time to try something else. I like to change builds every couple of weeks. Keeps grinding a bit different and fun.
Now in an hour of game time, moving at a casual pace, I might get a dungeon done plus some tree of whispers. So Ill end up with 3-400k gold if I sell everything.
I went to re-spec tonight, because I haven’t done a full build change before, the first thing I did was apply some aspects to legendary items I was using for my pulverize build (terrible mistake). I ended up not having enough gold. Maybe I should have known better. So I then had to go out and farm for more gold but I had lost the aspects on the gear I needed for the pulverize build. So I had this half build to go out and farm haha.
After all that I finally was able to get all the right aspects on the gear I needed! But then I didn’t have enough to respect LOL Out I went again.
Finally after maybe 1.5 hours of stuffing about I CHANGED MY BUILD!!! But I hate it and want to change it back HAHAHAHAHA 
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Changing build used to be called rerolling. Sorry that your new build is not what you hoped, but why not just make a new character? You can do all the same stuff, pass down some of your older items, get free skills to start with… it just seems like a much better way to try a new build. Almost certainly easier than imprinting over your gear and respeccing your skills.
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Yeah respeccing is what I meant.
Is that what people are doing, just creating a whole new character to try a new build ??
It took me since launch to now to get to level 54. I don’t really want to do that again. I guess i’m stuck doing what we have to do to change builds in D4 then.
Thanks for the tip though.
I cant speak for money costs( but i hate the repsec amount) but the items are what kill me.
Like yea, even at level 70 the amount of those nice yellow items from dismantling i need to upgrade new gear, put affixes on and reroll one stat are insane. The ones that you get for dismantling rares, ill go from like 200 to about 5 in a few minutes for doing that to like 3 pieces of new gear
Oh Im way too poor to even consider changing stats on an item. To be honest I don’t even look at the stats really. But since I’ve sold all my rares for the money, I just end up re-aspecting legendries.
Bit of a bummer how difficult it is to re-spec.
I dunno, I switched build at roughly ~47 and I didn’t have any issues at all. I had to finish 2 dungeons to grab aspects for my new build, throw them on gear, and that was it. I already had enough gold to do it, without even coming close to running out
300-400k gold is… I want to say maybe 30 minutes of doing dungeons at our level? (I’m now ~53)
You definitely do need to make sure you have enough in advance, though. You don’t want to be caught mid-swap and then run out of gold. I think ideally you save enough for 2 full swaps (so you can swap back if needed) before doing one. But that’s still like an hour of dungeons at most
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Yeah lesson learned. Ill have to be better organized for next time.
But if you just want to try a new build, you only need to get to what? 25 or 30 and you can see all of what the build is trying to do? You can put your aspects on without spending any of the legendaries crafting materials, and it will take maybe 2 hours to get there. Sure if you like the new build it will then take you little bit to get back to 54, but you’ll be playing the new build the whole time, and clearing content a lot faster than you did the first time.
it used to be called “reset skills/stats?” at an NPC.
Not until 2010, nearly 10 years after the game came out.
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I feel your pain but honestly I like how it is. You can respec but it’s enough of a pain and resource drain that you won’t change builds unless you absolutely really want or have to.
I would recommend to make a new character to try out new builds, you can get the basic gameplay loop at level 20-30 up and running in a few hours and keep it forever, just without unique aspects (but you can read up on those if you want to)
instantly alleviated with an open trade system. hello POE. Want to swap builds? farm currency with current build, buy what you need, instantly swap builds