I’m sure that this has been said to death already, but I want to throw my voice to the pile. For the love of god, give a reasonable option to respec profession skill points! I have a few characters where I need to respec for a few different reasons. One was by accident; I accidentally committed points to a skill when I thought the points were allocated to something else. In another instance the droprate of the item for the associated skill is abysmal (duskweave) and I don’t want to pursue that skill tree anymore. Yet another instance the skill doesn’t do what I thought it would do. I don’t want to have to spend a month plus grinding to get more points to replace them, nor do I want to have to start the profession on another toon to get the build that I want. Can’t Blizzard do something like allow for a respec on a one month cooldown to avoid abuse? Like, some people like me are ignorant and / or idiots. We make mistakes. Can you please accommodate us?
No Thank you.
Whats the argument against being able to respec?
there isn’t any. besides troll responses. but thats what these forums are.
I thought we were getting a respect option in 11.1?
There’s an option coming in 11.1 (apparently).
The details have yet to be datamined.
I don’t like this idea. At this point in time you should have most of the sections filled out anyway. Letting everyone switch like that whenever the market changes or whatnot just makes paying attention and putting some strategy into the game worthless.
I do think they should stop putting useless branches on those professions though.
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Good news, everyone! This exact thing is coming in 1.11. We don’t know the details of the cost - I expect it will be quite expensive - but it’s coming!
That all profession nodes will be unlockable in time, and as this is a way to customize your character without it impacting your player power there’s no need for it. Furthermore allowing it would create circumstances where people would “optimize the fun out of the game.” See the article for more details.
By and large these facts doesn’t matter since they are allowing folks to respac to some degree in the future. As players by and large chose to interact with the professions as less of a customizable activity and more of the same where people just say “You have to do X and because I didn’t therefore it is broken and therefore it needs to change rather than my mentality towards it.”
So we’ll see how it plays out and whether players argued once again to optimize the fun out of the game or not. But those are the arguments against it and these things have been well known aspects of game design since 2011. At least that’s when the article that popularized the phrase was written.
Your inability to understand an argument doesn’t make someone else a troll. Seriously, if you want there to be less trolling happening on these forums the best thing you could do would be to, yourself, stop trolling.
Respeccing doesn’t need to be whenever someone feels like it. There could be limitations.
I have several level 80 characters, with maybe one at 100 skill points. Far from being filled out. I imagine there are others in this situation too.
I think ppl make mistakes in the early game which is like the first month , after that its kinda irrelevant - the market is saturated or ppl have stocked up .
So what limitations should exist?
Professions are already worthless. They completely killed them in DF with this stupid new system.
Unless you’re treating your professions like a full time job, have ridiculous amounts of gold to spend leveling it, or getting materials funneled to you they are 100% useless. Just buy whatever you want from the AH from the people that are doing the above.
Looking forward to how they treat professions in the next seasons. I will jump onto PTR after tommorow.
Professions are only worth it if it’s difficult for people to make everything.
DF AND TWW make professions more worth it than before.
The goal of professions is not to make everything but make gold so you can enjoy other parts of the game.
And if you just played casually, how are professions worth anything at all? SL or earlier.
I understand your plight and I can sympathize with you. However, this would definitely open up a can of worms where people would simply respec their profession either every season or every expansion based on which one is making more money. I don’t see them doing this, knowing that professions should be locked in place and this is probably why people have a lot of alts to cover every profession.
you have three characters you want to change and if you have been playing from the start and only have 100 points you haven’t been doing much playing. I can’t check now but I have all professions and I think they are all over 200 points now.
Actually almost all are over 300 points and a good number over 400 points - see third column
https://imgur.com/a/LHaBESn