Respec cost sucks. No one cares about character identity these days. So no reason to not make respec free.
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A game is supposed to be fun not tedious
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Any formidable cost on respecs just discourages the player from trying something new and exploring different builds.
You don’t want people to respec? Fine, remove 4/5 of the items from the game and leave players with no skill choice. Imagine what an awesome game that would be 
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At the end of the day, nobody is impressed by someone who spent the time to level up a char with all the best stats at the end of the day. Let people respec and play what they want in any given patch, and let the actual player be the judge of how effective they are.
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You do know the respec cost scales exponentially with levels while items scale linearly?
From what they’ve said I’m expecting a few million gold per point to respec at max level.
I would want some cost, but a fair and reasonable one whether that be gold or materials.
There doesn’t need to be a cost at all. Let people have fun playing around. What does it hurt to be able to respec for free?
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Why does there need to be a cost if people don’t want to respect then just don’t respec
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Make it more expensive, or just allow only 5 reskills in the whole game, would be nice! We love to have 10+ chars - all build different!
Respec cost will be moot when you’re swimming in oodles of sheckles from Bobby’s goblin lair.
Well when the devs say it will be easyer and cheaper too make an alt rather than respec
Idk about you but it sounds like I’ll be too expensive
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This is a game heavily based on items you get which changes your build over time. This is game that has pvp. This is a game that will have balance changes in the future. Yeah sure respec should cost something but when you say something like it will be easier to roll an alt…that is insanity. Pure insanity. I’m already annoyed I don’t have the option to respec on a point by point basis like it’s 2023. This is the wrong hill.
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If they do not report that the respec will not be expensive, I will issue a refund of Dibablo 4. I do not want to play a boring game with one build. 
Asmond said it best, there is no upside to this for the player. It doesn’t add anything of value for the player, so why do it?
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It serves as the foundation for more interesting combat encounters and builds that are not designed for perfect optimization against each challenge.
For some people, that certainly is a huge value.
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No it doesn’t this is like saying they will totally balance wow raids so you can bring all melee during prog.
What kind of nonsensical statement is that. It adds value for players that enjoy a meta without spec swapping lol.
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When I wasn’t actively spending it I’d hit 50k pretty quickly. Selling weapons starts to be over ~1k gold per.
The idea should be that little changes aren’t too expensive but upending your entire tree should be at great cost.
The one player can make their small adjustments if they so wish.
As for the new player, I can paint you the opposite group picture: “Respec to meta or kick.” Don’t have the needed affixes? Also kick. Don’t want to just play the meta buid? Obviously, kick.
Kicks due to meta Didn’t happen in D3 unlikely to start happening now. Not that I encountered anyway.