There have been countless of discussions regarding this subject:
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I think the better solution (which I have suggested in the past and other people ahve suggested simialr things) would be to gives player a litle bit of a taste of masteries, some kind of Training/Testing Area.
I suggested this to have some sort of time travel aspect, where you can free test stuff and once you decide you character gets reset.
This could be explained with some time travel and “your character explores possible futures of himself”
While I totally understand the desired adn request for this, I prefer having meaningful choices.
And the most meaningful chocie are choices that you can’t change.
Regardless of how hard it is to respec mastery, as soon as it’s possible it takes away a lot of it’s impact.
The most common argument against this, that I heard, was something like “if you care so much about it, jsut don’t use that feature”, but that’s not a very strong one, because it does impact me, even if I don’t use it.
Just the fact that it’s possible imapcts me.
EDIT: And btw, welcome to the LE Community!