1g for initial respec? Touting all the cool new features and abilities but severely limiting a players ability to access these for leveling is a huge miss.
Ideally, players should be offered a free respec coupon every 10 levels starting at 20 that they can save and use whenever.
why do you need to respec so much?
once is too much? I would like to try out other trees but not spending a gold when I’ve only made 3g at 20.
Because we’re enjoying the JOURNEY and trying out new things in a new game.
I thought we were supposed to play the game? 
FYI, the cost to respec increases each time you respec. I believe it goes up to 50g and caps out there.
its really not hard to get gold, even just screwing around I’ve made 20 at least
Think of it as its own little quest.
You want to change up how your talents work so you can do some part of your class better, you got to earn that gold so you can get that respec.
Respecs being free reduces the allure of having multiple characters, to experience multiple playthroughs and engage with the game’s content. Would it be nice? Sure! But it would also take away a potential goal for people: Earn gold by playing the game.
In Retail, respecs are free because there are so many options in the talent tree that modify small parts of how your class works that requiring currency or resources to respec would be an undue burden on play.
In Classic and Forever, that gold cost resonates with the fewer amounts of choices in the trees and makes the choices matter more, makes your character matter more.
no you haven’t.
This version of WOW has been a BIG learning curve for retailers. Frankly, I think level 20 is far too low to be respeccing. If a player is doing it that early in the leveling process, then he needs to do a better job of planning what he wants his character to be. Not just picking talents willy nilly.
some of us are trying new classes and maybe wanted to change our minds on how we approached things.
That’s fair. But I would highly recommend waiting until later to respec because the cost goes up every time. I would also highly recommend the talent calculator on WOWHEAD if you want to experiment.
I understand the cost goes up, and thats fine. I’m just saying the base cost of 1g is extremely high for a game version that promotes the casual experience and to try new things. Not sure why everyone is arguing against this, if it doesn’t impact you and your gameplay and you’re a seasons pro who knows exactly what they are doing, don’t worry about it, you’re not losing anything in this scenario.
But it does impact me. It impacts everyone who plays the game.
Because that’s how the system was in vanilla. People tend to ignore the fact that this is just base vanilla with a few QoL and gameplay experience changes added to reinforce a different, lateral progression system of continuation. It was never designed or promoted to be a “brand new” version of vanilla wow.
Actually there is something lost because the higher cost forces everyone’s choices to actually matter. That is a core design of the game itself. The old argument “This won’t affect you” isn’t going to work in WF.
That was what Beta was for; it had significantly reduced respec costs.
Talent calculators are your friend, as Malvader explained. My preference is TalentsForever (cannot recommend it enough; also lightweight as it’s not burdened with insane amounts of ads like WoWHead or IcyVeins).
I get excited to play the game and level a character after I’ve already plotted out the talent build. I’ll literally write down what talent point goes where when a character gets a level-up and plan out leveling paths.
Sometimes, playing the game doesn’t involve logging in. I highly encourage you to work inside this limitation instead of insisting it changes for you; you might end up enjoying the journey more =)
Besides, it’s always an option they can take later in the game’s life, if talent trees become too expansive or something like that.
Wow this is some serious retail behavior.
How can you post on a classic era character and not understand that you’re supposed to be careful with your decisions or it can cost you? Just wait till you pay that 1g and your next respec costs 5, and then 10, and then 25, and then 50.
Should be free.
Respec & need at least quad spec (druid, pally pvp). Just copy how it works in retail and problem solved.
I 100% do not believe this at all.
Normally I don’t go this route. But I straight up think you’re lying.
There’s an addon if you would like an in game talent tree to play around with
talentsforever from memory.