When you respec skill nodes, leveling skill again seems wrong

[Llama8]

@TheRealIronMan

Its early morning in UK so we can have a few hours before @Llama8 gives me the gears again … its a joke chill out

Despite being an accountant, I do have a sense of humour (it’s just a soul I’m lacking). Though you only posted this a few mins before I woke up. For maximum no-Llama time, try posting around 11pm UK time.

I also started a thread on this topic a few days ago and got similar responses. Whenever someone mentions D3 it seems everyone starts frothing at the mouth and there follows a slew of negative feedback. It strike me that a lot of people haven’t played D3 recently and don’t know the difference between a) the D3 skill / passive systems and b) the armory system. The ARE NOT the same thing.

Nobody is asking for the D3 skill / passive system and most think the LE system is about right. What @Ekler and i are asking for is the Armory system which is a VERY good efficient way of having multiple build available after you have spent the time to grind out those builds.

I’ve not actually used the D3 armoury after it was introduced, though I have played the game after it was introduced.

The problem with a build-saving mechanic in LE is with LE’s skill system, as I think I said above, I don’t think it’s a bad idea if it worked like a template & placed your points for you as you levelled. But unless they changed the skill respec penalty, it wouldn’t work to change the skill point allocations.

So just to re-iterate in case the word D3 has made everyone bash their keyboards at the mention of that heretic word … this is not about the D3 skill / passive system (the LE system for this is perfectly fine) …

Yeah, it’s about not wanting to have to grind the skill points back again after you’ve respeced them. Now to be fair, Mike did say that the system might change:

Respec - How do YOU like, or not like it

Hi guys, seems like you’re having a vigorous debate. I just wanted to pop my head in and say that we won’t be splitting the community based on respec options. It will continue to be a blanket system. That said, the system as a whole could change still. It’s not set in stone and we do want it to be something that players enjoy interacting with as a whole. We know it’s not perfect. We do have a vision for important requirements that can sometimes be difficult to reconcile with expectations from o…

I’m curious as to what happened to the “actual respec item drops” Mike mentions here last year:

Free respec

So things are always changing and this could too. We don’t currently have any plans to change the general philosophy behind semi-permanent characters. I have just put in a little thing to make is slightly easier if you’re doing a lot of respecs. I’m still working on the actual respsec item drops. Quite often with systems like this, it’s much easier for us to make things less restrictive over time. If we make things more restrictive, we will probably get some pretty strong push back from the com…

This is probably the most expansive post of his on the subject:

Allow Skill Overleveling (to allow 1 time full respecs)

So, I read the initial post but I haven’t had a chance to read the whole thread. I’d just like to shed a little light on one of our design goals with this system. This isn’t a hard fast rule and this system could change but this is just where we were coming from when it was designed. We want players to be able to respec their builds if they feel like they have made a mistake. We don’t want people to feel like if they make a decision, it could be a wrong decision and absolutely need to go look…