Yes, you definitely used it properly, it was just the spelling that seemed very odd to me 
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Its helpful thanks, I have a bit of dyslexia so I often just butcher the spelling of words cause I write like I talk, so sometimes I have to actively think of how to spell things rofl
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I promise that if mastery respec is meta defining I will push very hard to add a restriction. I understand the concern here. Youâre right that it is harder to take something away than it is to add it. We are confident that if some limiting factor is required that it can be done cleanly enough that itâs worth it to just go to the system we think will be the best in the long run.
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In this case, that loud camp I think actually delayed this. Low quality arguments for something can have the opposite effect by making the recipient dismiss the entire idea due to some reasons being ineffective. Itâs not intentional but I sometimes find myself needing to figure out why on my own.
As an aside, I see the D2 approach being recommended quite a bit but I do want to point out that once youâre into deep end game in D2, you can âessentially freely respecâ all you want. I think that D2 is actually more free than LE will be (assuming that the D2R system hasnât changed in the last year or so). All the time that it takes in D2 is to allocate your points. In LE youâll still have to re-level your skills up. Some combination of the difference in potential power for completing specific activities and the increased maximum potential reward would need to be very high to be enticing enough to cause people to want to use mastery respec as part of the endgame meta to switch frequently. I see 3 levers that we can pull to affect the desire to âabuseâ the system. We can make the reward quality across various activities more consistent (good thing to strive for anyways). We can balance the relative power between the masteries at completing different types of content (good thing to strive for anyways). Finally we can increase the friction of the respec process (which is already higher than D2).
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This isnât true, Mike. After you spend the 3 free respecs you get, you need to collect 4 very rare materials from the act bosses (Andy and Duriel both drop the same one).
I often saw people wanting to trade one or another of these because they are so rare and required a lot of grinding to collect. I donât think D2R has upped the drop rates, but my suggestion was based on D2 anway., not D2R. 
You are correct that once you do get the respec (or one of the 3 free ones) then itâs much faster than in LE, but the ability to overall respec your build (not even talking about mastery) is much more limited in D2.
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Good to hear, but my overall mood about this patch is still very negative, solely because of this one change and how abrupt is will be implemented.
The meta defining part is one of many concerns I have, but even though it will not affect me anyway (because I never strife for doing anything hyper effecient anyway).
With all the cool stuff being added in the patch, that I am looking forward to this patch overall will still be negative for my overall play experience with the game.
I love playing Lich and I love playing Warlock, but the simple fact that I donât have to commit to one of them anymore makes both of them less exciting.
I really hope the Lich overhaul that will come with later patches will make me forget this patch forever so I can move on and have fun with the game again.
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Last time I played hard I was rolling in tokens. I could easily respec daily without trying and I could easily afford to do it way more often than that. If thatâs all youâre referring to, tokens are cheap.
Maybe thatâs something they changed with D2R? That didnât use to be the case with LoD.
Either way, my suggestion was having those tokens be rune of creation rare or similar (past the initial 3 free ones you always get), regardless of how D2 does it now.
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Either way, I still donât think people are going to do it because levelling the skills will take too long.
Not really? When youâre high level you get your skills leveled in 2-3 echoes, at most. That will be enough to prevent switching every time you want to fight a boss, but not enough to prevent lining up all bosses in several timelines and then switching once to do them all. Itâs not âprofitableâ to do it for one boss, but it should be if youâre doing many in a row.
However, this is already possible with the current system. Mastery respec doesnât change this, it just increases the options (and potential temptation) threefold.
I want to make it clear that Iâm not asking that this should be removed. Respec is basically a spectrum with no respec at all in one end (like old D2), going through very limited build respec, easy build respec, mastery respec and ending with class respec at the other end.
I donât think thereâs anything wrong with placing yourselves at any point of this spectrum. Each player will have their comfort zone at some point of it and this will determine whether they enjoy the way it is in any game or not.
My only issue with this is that youâve always said mastery is your class, itâs an important part of the character identity and that you had no plans to ever change this. And I identified a lot with this stance.
Pivoting on this makes it seem like you donât care about character identity anymore and that feels disappointing to me.
Like Heavy said, the fact that we donât need to commit to a mastery makes masteries feel less exciting somehow.
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Its good that the team will keep an eye on how mastery respecing goes. And hopefully make changes to it as time goes.
Tbh it having a gold cost oh lets say 1mil (we do not know exactly what the cost will be in gold) isnt enough even 5mil imo isnt enough. Why? Merchants guild. Heck even 1mil gold for CoF player (like myself) is easy to come by. Mastery respecing shouldnt be easy to do imo
Why? Players in MG will have far more of an ability to flip flop masteries at will vs CoF. Which in turn changes things for players that otherwise do not want to trade but do want to experiment. Item factions was about do u want to trade or not. A gold cost for mastery respec changes this.
The frequent switching is something that will happen in MG as well as make non trade players go trade that otherwise wouldnt just to swap on the fly.
What im trying to say is if the team wants mastery respec to be for new players or to fix bricked builds. Gold cost isnt enough of a downside to it. There needs to be more weight to the decision to switch. Especially when u look at the system together with MG players.
Imo the switch frequency is there with how mastery respecing is going to cost gold. If the team doesnt want that flip flopping like the team was concerned about with item factions. Mastery respec just needs more of a punishment to prevent that Especially for MG players.
Best way to prevent all of what i said is to do something similar to diablo 2 respecing. And remove gold completely as the cost to respecing mastery. Id also agree with the person that said using those shades. And making it a 4th dungeon but for mastery respecing as the reward. That we use to face before getting to pick our mastery class. Lvl locking ur mastery selection oh say around lvl 65 is another good way to prevent this frequent switching. Gold here would still work up to the lvl where ur mastery becomes locked in.
These suggestions others and i have said. Would fit alot better with the teams goal of help new players and bricked builds. Currently gold cost to switch isnt going to bring about the intentions the team has for mastery respecing at least IMO.
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I think folks here are severely exaggerating the potential issue that would come with being able to freely swap.
Itâs easy sit around and nit-pick any changes prior to implementation. I understand the ârose-tintâ which creates some resistance to change, but Mike (and dev team), lets be honest ⌠It is the same people on these forums that are the ones resistant to the change, not the general community/average Joe gamer.
While its important to keep the long-term players and supports happy, the general population does not care if respec aligns with a âprevious visionâ, or not. They want to enjoy a seasonal game they might play for 1-2 months per season. That is great that people here do, and want to preserve something, but I want more people to play this game. not less.
Those people that donât like respecâsâŚcan just not do it?
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For some reason, thatâs not a good enough argument for the people who are against it.
Itâs almost like they could have done a community poll and addressed this major change in philosophy on a grand scale, something theyâve done before for other important issues (Patch 1.2 Timeline, 1.1 Event Updates, and Cycle Poll).
Theyâve literally done this song and dance before. Announce something. Thereâs backlash from part of the community, they release poll. Just skip the backlash and release a poll. âhey guys, weâve been reconsidering our design philosophy on Mastery Respecs, hereâs a poll to get a pulse on how you, the community, feel about this change.â throw in a handful of options to get a general idea of how the community feels, and decide based on that. If the 5-10 of us in this thread upset by the change are the only people in the community who would be upset by it, then Iâd completely concede my point. But the fact is itâs been a point of debate for over 5 years and even as recently as November 2024 the devs had no intent to make this change.
Edit: as Iâve said though. Whatâs done is done. It will be implemented whether we like it or not. I just hope that things donât get worse because of Flavor of the Month changes like this and WASD taking up dev time from actually important changes like finishing masteries that are missing skills and the lack of class identity for masteries like Shaman.
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Relevel is not that hard. It will stop from mastery respec a very lil % of players. And nearly 0 % of them are hardmode meta blasters. They will find how make it back to 20 in less then a minute. Probably somehow with coop play and Exp echoes 