Thank You EHG for the Mastery Change Option

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Just wanted to say thank you, EHG, for adding the mastery respec option. It’s already massively improved my enjoyment of the game.

I feel way more free to try out my own homebrew builds and actually enjoy the game, instead of feeling locked into a single mastery and needing to start over if it doesn’t work out. I’ve never liked being unable to respec in ARPGs — that kind of design makes more sense in RPGs or roguelikes, not here.

And I’ve been on the other side of this. In PoE 2, I picked Chronomancer and tried to make my own build — it ended up being total garbage. Then the devs nerfed it and I couldn’t even afford to respec. My character was completely broken and I had to start over. It sucked the fun right out of the game.

The negatives of not having a respec system are way worse than the minor complaints from people who don’t like it but could simply choose not to use it. When respec exists, you have the option. When it doesn’t? You’re stuck. And that kills creativity and fun.

Thanks again, EHG. You made the right call.

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Agreed…

The main reason I think mastery respec is better, is that first playthrough where I landed on the mastery choice, was told it was unchangable, and felt like I had to stop playing and go do research to figure out what to pick… This is bad for new player experiecnce… better to let them just pick something and correct it if they dont like it.

I think it would be fine to do locked-mastery in hardcore… if someone at EHG wants to keep that ethos alive.