The respec costs are WAY too high

My character is bricked, as I was respecing and halfway through needed to change something but dont have the 120,000 gold it costs to change mastery. So now im between two builds and out of money. Why did the devs decided to punish players so extremely for respecing? no respect to the player. I am uninstalling for now until the game is more sorted out

It only feels hight to start with → a little into the game 120k arent that much anymore. You probably spent a little much money on vendors while leveling → just run a few Monos and you will be settled.

The Devs haven’t punished anyone. You punished yourself by not preparing yourself properly for the respec.
The Gold cost for respeccing is fine, as it’s not something you’re supposed to do repeatedly.

Pick up Zerrick on the Weaver tree alongside gold blessing on monolith. Sell those uniques that you don’t need to free up inventory slots - those sell for like 2-3k a piece.
The mastery is there for a reason alongside the build. I disagree, not respecting players time is not being able to respec a mastery at all and then forcing you to roll a new character. Even then, creating a new character with campaign skips via dungeon and putting OP 2/3LP on low level uniques makes it trivial to level up. You get to level 55 as soon as you do the lance quest in Chapter 7 and go to the monoliths. I was 47 when I beat the lance on an alt and just gained 8 levels to 55 for the monoliths.

Are you in COF or MG? don’t items sell for a lot in MG for gold?

Skill issue.