To preface my post: the devs did not say anything about selling the Scroll Of Amnesia in the premium store. It is just my assumption.
How many Diablo bucks do you guys think the Scroll Of Amnesia will cost?
Maybe something like:
1 for 500
5 for 1000
10 + 2 free for 2000
you will get 10 for free from the paid battle pass!
It is a free reward as part of the Season. Right now it has zero cost. Only cosmetics can be bought at this point.
10 would be too generous.
10 is not a bad start, although I wish they would just get rid of respec costs altogether. Failing that, at least sell it at a vendor…10 isn’t a lot if you’re really experimenting with builds and not just following an internet guide.
It’s free, but sounds like you only get one at the end of the season. Should allow you to reset your original character for new builds based around new gear and aspects from the season.
I fully expect that you will get 1 from the premium season pass, and will be able to purchase more if you want. Just judging what the community thinks these items will cost in terms of Diablo bucks.
Well, that is not something Blizzard has stated so for Season 1 that is certainly not the case. It remains to be seen if they will add them to paid portions later.
I hope not.
I was hoping for a char spec reset at the end of the Season when it transfers to Eternal. Just because a spec for Season mechanics is not likely to work back on Eternal. Free reset makes sense. What I did not expect was that it would be a scroll that I think we can use on any char on the account. That is better than expected, IMHO.
I wish I was as optimistic as you MissCheetah. I just think the writing is on the wall. During the dev. Discussion they mentioned that they were happy with the state of the respec system. The gold cost associated is very high. They also mentioned they are looking into 'ways" to make it easier to reset the paragon board. I wonder why they are looking at ways of doing that if they already have the scrolls which seems to serve the same purpose?
The only explanation I can see is that they will give you, what sounds like 1, in the BP and make more purchasable with platinum.
What is a Scroll of Amnesia??
That answer was two parts. Part one dealt with the cost - they are aware of it and monitoring the cost vs gold economy. It is not changing yet, but they are not closed to it. Part of that was the mention of the Scroll of Amnesia for a free reset at season end.
The second part was the user interface with regard to re-setting talents and paragon. That has been something people have also complained about. They are looking into ways to make that reset smoother from a UI perspective.
A scroll that resets your Talents and Paragon to zero for free so you can re-do the whole thing. Granted at the end of the Season for some milestone or something.
It’s a new consumable they mentioned in the dev. Talk that will reset your skill points and paragon boards. They mentioned you will get 1 at the end of the battlepass. My assumption is that you will be able to purchase more in the premium store
I hope they are at least aware that the cost itself is likely making a lot of people refrain from respeccing. So their data will be skewed towards “oh we still see a lot of gold in people’s stash and people aren’t respeccing a lot”, and then derive the horribly wrong conclusion that things are fine.
I thought it is something that can reset my bank debt too. LoL
Thanks for the answer.
Yes, they know that. It is intentional right now, I think. D2 launched with zero respec at all. It meant making really final char choices when speccing. They finally added some options to the game much much later. D3 had totally free respecs so the char felt like nothing - no investment. It was not your “fire sorc” it was just the sorc paper doll you slapped armor and a spec on then headed off to do what you wanted that day.
I feel that is not a position devs should take if they want the game to appeal to the mass market.
People aren’t all no-lifing the game. How much “investment” should you demand from your players? How much investment has weight? Who determines that weight?
I think the idea of using time as the criteria of whether your character choices carry weight is long outdated. Like how MMOs do away with corpse runs, Diablo needs to ditch the idea that characters need to have weight.
Saying that free respecs felt like nothing and no investment is really just dismissive of the real life time I “invest” into the game. My choices already matter.
I just don’t understand why something that should be a relatively simple system, something that people either use or don’t use has to be a big issue. Why does it have to cost 14 million gold and a bunch of time to respec. This means that we will likely never have load outs to change between pushing/farming builds. The only reason why I think is because they want to monetize that function. It feels like such a letdown for me personally.
Yeah I feel there is an unhealthy obsession with making specs have heavy consequences, in a game which is supposed to have depth in builds that players are supposd to experiment with.
Hey here’s a complex system of skills, paragon points, affixes on gear and legendary aspects, plus uniques. But we’re going to everything we can to make it hard for you to experiment with the system. You better look up an internet guide and just follow it, eh?
That’s basically what it boils down to. They said they want build diversity, but they don’t want you to easily be able to try builds. These Scrolls should be free and earnable ingame, but instead I think they are going to monetize the crap out of them.
no gives a crap about what D2 launched with or did … that is a 20 year old game. Games now have evolved and have a lot more quality of life.