free unlimited respec on passive skill (or a sandboxed Free Unlimited Respecs League)

it is observed that there are a few players out there who are not happy with free unlimited respec and some players are attacking this thread...

implementing a separate sandboxed free unlimited respec league is about having fun and letting players have greater options and creativity in game playing. we all play games because gaming is fun, so why not make it more fun and take it to another higher level.

the point is that many players want to create 6 characters --- one for each of the 6 classes.

they do not want to create 60 characters --- 10 builds for each of the 6 classes.

we also need to take into consideration the demographic profile of an average casual gamer.

a casual gamer needs to:
1) has a day job (or night job/or shift job/or whatever).... if student, then need to go college and study during the day....
2) has family commitments and need to spend time with family members and friends...... have to spend time on dating as well...
3) need time for hobbies... for sports... for spending time on cultural/art/social activities... time for religious activities as well...
4) time for leisure and entertainment... going out for movies, etc, etc...

having said that, it depends on what direction ggg wants for poe to take and to move into....

does ggg wants poe to go fully mainstream and be played by all kinds of gamers (casual/hardcore/whatever) from all over the world?

or does ggg wants poe to be only played by hardcore players? (forgo everything else in life and just spend hours on gaming everyday) ???

personally i think it's not healthy for a gamer to spend hours staring at the passive skill tree and attempting to map out a build... it is insane for a witch class (or other 5 classes) to have 10++ builds, 1 for wand dmg, 1 for necro summonning, 1 for bows, 1 for 2h weapons, 1 for 1h weapons/shield, 1 for elemental spell dmg, etc, etc...

it would be a great thing is poe can be played and enjoyed by mainstream casual players who are likely to respec their characters back in town to try out new playing styles. it would be a great thing if poe can by played by all kinds of pple... imagine when word spread out and poe is known everywhere and many pple are playing it... imagine if tom cruise or barrack obama or linkin park is downloading poe and trying out casual hack and slash gaming...

having said all this, i am almost 99% certain that if ggg were to implement a sandboxed "Free Unlimited Respecs League" in poe, the default league will eventually become a ghost town.

why not ggg just try this out for a couple of months and see how it goes... if it doesn't work out well, then just remove the respecs league... there's no harm done... this idea is worth experimenting...
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Last edited by stkmro#2432 on Apr 4, 2012, 10:16:04 PM
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I am against full, easy respecs outside a closed beta (where it could help finding flaws in the system)

PoE-Devs = oldschool
No full respec = oldschool

= 100% match


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stkmro wrote:
imagine if tom cruise or barrack obama or linkin park is downloading poe and trying out casual hack and slash gaming...


Obama is most likely already playing enough hardcore in real life,
Tom Cruise could be the actor behind Brutus
and the Linkin Park guys may already be on your friendslist undercover ;)
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For sure it have to be a respec availability. Okok if you don't want us to respec then give us 2-3 slots for different builds like it was made in Rift. If im a templar I want solo-damage build but for coop play I want full tank build. It is so simple to understand, why ppl are so stubborn with "no respect!!! " ...
problem is this tree is TOO BIG to not have a respec option. Im full tank templar and now when i solo im useless
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cwhit5150 wrote:
problem is this tree is TOO BIG to not have a respec option. Im full tank templar and now when i solo im useless


well...no. D3 already do that, so no.
you can have freely 24 characters... your character IS a tank, and sudenly, you want him as a dps dealer?
GGG want characters in the game, not a blank floating build.

I hope that they'll never be any full respec in THIS particular game. and I don't care if ALL the other product's do this to please their whiny customers...

same thing for dead baby's and giant spiders!!!!
... nothing
No fucking free respect. It will destroys game like this. If you dont know to plan your build in long run, than surfer the penalty and buy regret orbs. If you don't want to be a tank, create another character, this is not d3 where you can change whenever you want depending from situation.
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cwhit5150 wrote:
problem is this tree is TOO BIG to not have a respec option.

But it does have a respec option.
Disregard witches, aquire currency.
Current respec system is just bad.. plain and simple.. it's not horrible... but it's not good either.. It's pretty stupid and overcomplicated ... Respec system should never be tied to RNG. Period...

Whole respec system should be reworked from the ground. I know devs said they are discussing various options..so there is hope they will introduce something good this time.. But time will tell

Also, I can't understand how anyone can be against free respec system in DIFFERENT league.. it's not like they are affecting them.
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WhiteBoy88 wrote:
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Win.

(I've yet to find one of these and wouldn't have any use for them even if I did.)
And they said *I* was bad at PoE. At least I made it out of act 1 and know how to use the /dnd function. El oh fucking el.

I am Path of Exile's biggest whale. Period.
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