Lock nodes on skill tree

[Llama8]

@Ghostlight

why is it not simply the most recent point(s) I spent, ALWAYS. Anything else is just stupid and bad design. I guess that would just be too damn sensible,

Because then you’d just allocate your points based on whether they’d be most useful to remove to switch between single target & clear. Not difficult to see.

@gohhkac

If you want to go down the "make choosing and picking skills or skill spec trees an actual choice " path then shouldn’t the respec be gated behind limited quests e.g d2 or the passives gated behind xp too? … why is it necessary in this time and age to restrict a player’s ability to choose\try the skills they want

Sorry, do you want to put skill respecs behind something limited like quests and think that the current system is “restrictive”?

@gohhkac

I’m telling you in this time and age ARPGs gating the skill tree behind xp leveling at endgame is a dinosaur.

And builds in D3 have no identity since you can switch around instantly at the click of a button (or a few to switch out your gear). Some people like that & some don’t, there should be games that cater to both.

@Ghostlight

I’d cite this game as having one of the worst and most punishing respec systems of any recent ARPG

The actual ####? Just because you can’t respec a skill from clear to single target when you get to the boss (PoE) or instantly in town (D3) doesn’t make it “the worst & most punishing”. And that’s before we get to the “gamers these days…”

@Ghostlight

I am still waiting for the answer as to what the painful cost of respecing at low levels adds to the game, given the cost becomes negligible at high levels

And the skill points are negligible early game. It’s really not an issue.

@Ghostlight

I guess I will just never understand why that’s a problem.

Because the devs want builds to be a thing & have permanence or weight to them? Rather than a trivial thing that you change like a coat depending on the weather.

[Ghostlight]

@Llama8

Because the devs want builds to be a thing & have permanence or weight to them? Rather than a trivial thing that you change like a coat depending on the weather.

Yet it takes 2 mins to change your entire skill set and get everything back to 20 at high levels.

[Irrelevant]

When it works that fast then it is only a minor inconvenience that takes euqualy long as standing up and taking a bio breake. So no reason to change anything. if it takes hours to refarm things it would be different.

[JustSomeGuy]

I personally don’t see what difference it makes either way. The stickiness of a build doesn’t make it more enjoyable or more interesting. I get that most games like this make it permanent and this is definitely better than that. But if the point is to experiment and move things around to see what works best, it’s not exactly mandatory to change it every boss fight if I can, so who cares if I do that or not. That’s honestly enough extra work (just from thinking and clicking, not the re-leveling requirement,) that I wouldn’t want to do it anyways, but if someone does and they find that fun, then it’s part of the game. If it was my game I would just embrace that some people are going to play it that way because that’s the way their brains work.