[2020] Respec - How do YOU like, or not like it

Hi guys, seems like you’re having a vigorous debate. I just wanted to pop my head in and say that we won’t be splitting the community based on respec options. It will continue to be a blanket system.

That said, the system as a whole could change still. It’s not set in stone and we do want it to be something that players enjoy interacting with as a whole. We know it’s not perfect. We do have a vision for important requirements that can sometimes be difficult to reconcile with expectations from other games.

OK, the 6 hours number was bothering me a bit so I ran my own test. Without cheating, I took a level 16 skill and timed how long it is to respec back to 20 in end game.

18 mins.

I started the timer while I was in town and I also died in the arena which I’m sure slowed me down a ton.

The base damage of a skill is not affected by the skill level. There are no hidden skill power stats.

It’s an attempt to make melee skills be more reliant on your weapon to emulate a “local” stat.

Level 86

I think that was the experiment time and then reverting back to the way it was which doubled the time. I also died and I didn’t mention that I crashed because I was trying to work at the same time. I probably could have done it sub 10 mins pretty easily.

I think that one of the main problems is the disconnect in our vision for when level 20 skills are supposed to be easily accessible. Level 63 is early to be regularly playing with fully leveled skills. We considered locking the max level of skills behind character levels. Have a sliding scale of max skill levels. So at say level 63 max skill level would be say 15 so the respec time for a “max’d out skill” would be much faster just because you can’t get it up to 20. We figured that it would be better to let people get up to 20 earlier if they really pushed for it though.

I know people aren’t really calling for this but I just want to be clear that we have no intention of making skill respecs completely free. It will probably always hold some sort of gold/item and/or time cost. We are still experimenting with the system as a whole.