Comments on: Rant on Respecs

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:39:14 +0000

I think a good way of doing this would be to convince blizzard to allow us to exchange soulbound items between alts – via a per server account bank. While there is still the pain of levelling two characters 1 to 70, the ability to exchange bound loot means – other than character xp which is easy to make up – you dont loose gear progression on a character when playing a different character.

By: zhagog

zhagog — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:21:17 +0000

Or, another option if you are INSANE (like me), level two characters of the same class. I have a blood elf and troll priest. The blood elf is shadow, the troll is holy. They play like two different classes.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:42:24 +0000

@Mifletzet – Nice! Thanks for the heads up. See you in game. =)

By: Mifletzet

Mifletzet — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:53:59 +0000

Ask and you shall receive:
General
* Characters will now retain talented spell ranks so when they retalent they do not have to relearn the spells from trainers. (Source)

from: http://www.mmo-champion.com/index.php?topic=4018.0

By: Mania

Mania — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:55:27 +0000

You said: “… let a character keep all spells that they have already paid once to learn, but make them dormant …”

I’d love to see a similar system for tradeskills with respect to recipes. I’m bored with alchemy and I want to try tailoring, but I don’t want to lose all the rare receipes I’ve gathered over the past three years. I shouldn’t be able to use them while I’m not an alchemist, of course, but the thought of needing to find all those world drop recipes again … Ugh!

By: Gritty

Gritty — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:13:35 +0000

I’d love to see a tome of some sort that allowed me to switch between shadow and holy or shadow and disc. It’s pretty annoying to switch between arms and prot on my warrior, too. I think that a tome with a 5 hour cooldown and a 10 second cast time that is interrupted if you enter combat is a fair and just way to at least let people choose two talent trees… I couldn’t switch to arms for aran then back to prot afterwards, but on an off day I could respec for pvp, then in the evening tank a heroic. I’m almost never willing to drop another 50g just to tank a heroic even if i want to tank it.

By: Valyre

Valyre — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:26:50 +0000

I’m a healadin and my husband is a prot warrior. Together, our repair bills on a progression night will easily be over 100g. He also respec’s every weekend for arenas and PvP. Yes, it gets pretty expensive, but dailies are a huge help.

My husband’s biggest complaint is that to respec you have to manually pick out each and every talent point allocation. When you go through this twice a week, every week for the foreseeable future, it starts getting rediculous. Why can’t you save spec’s like profiles and then just pick them from a list?

By: Chad

Chad — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:36:45 +0000

I’m a big supporter of the “two talent specs” idea that’s been going around for some time. Blizzard could still charge us to change those talent setups, but not to switch between the two. Make it an item or a trinket with a huge cooldown (but not outrageous like specialty cloth) is fine. I’m not a huge fan of requiring things like this to be obtained from mandatory group quests though. That kind of defeats the purpose and further punishes those more casual players who rarely even do 5-man groups.

A more appealing option to me would just be to allow the class trainers to do it. This still makes it require the person go out of their way to make the switch, but its a much more reasonable option, in my opinion. Make the cooldown 24-hours or something along those lines.

Another problem in this regard I see is that people don’t mind the one-time respec cost, but then they have to pay again to respec back to their original spec. If Blizzard is so intent on charging something for a respec, at the very least add in a “revert” feature, which would revert you back to your previous spec for free. This accomplishes two things: 1) Still apeases Blizzard, who feels the need to charge for a respec and 2) allows easy and trouble-free switch between, for example, PVE and PVP specs, at half the usual total cost. If you wanted to “revert” back to a different spec, you would still be charged.

Lastly, there’s the option of allowing individual talent points to be moved around (instead of wiped completely) and charging per point moved instead of for an across the board wipe and respec.

There’s so many ways this respec system can be improved, I’m still unsure why Blizzard is so adamant about not at least trying to apease the players to some degree.

By: Horko

Horko — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:49:36 +0000

Amen. Hallelujah.