Respec - How do YOU like, or not like it

[XLVI_carpo]

@kostyash

If last epoch devs want people to play multiplayer they must remove time penalty from respecing.

Thats your opinion. But it’s not a fact. MMOs are heavily based on multiplayer and also have the defined roles of tank, healer, damagedealer. In many of them you can’t instantly swap between single player and party specc. Some classes don’t even have those.

LE was founded with the philosophy in mind to NOT go the d3 route. And it attracted/ attracts many people that have this exact mindset.

Switching this would be like breaking their promise for many people.

@Sarno

The team’s view on this is that you’re not really specializing or making meaningful decisions if they can be hot swapped at any time. While a gold cost is one possibility, it isn’t a perfect one - it can be difficult to make gold costs payable early on, but still have them be significant later. Often in ARPGs you reach a point where you’ve more gold than you need.

We believe that part of an ARPG is making choices and choosing to specialize in certain ways. I won’t claim that despecializing is perfect as-is; we’re in alpha and still implementing systems and features - thoroughly polishing and balancing them will likely begin in earnest during beta. But it is a deliberate design decision to have despecializing incur a penalty.