Gone since May and come back and things are still the same lol. I'm just glad I specced into all different classes of suits from multiple scout suits, with amarr assault and sentinel and logi. Although I am pissed it looks like my gallente scout suit is taking a nerf.

I second this sentiment. CCP Logibro or CCP Rattati, if you are reading this thread, a respec in the near future will lure players back into Dust and each one of them has the potential to buy AUR. In addition, existing players who never left will be pleased some of their old friends are returning and suddenly the game is made less stale for them. It will please a large percentage of your playerbase.

This argument is mostly why I thought giving people respecs before was a bad idea too. It gives people the mindset they should get them. o_o

Here we go again, the memories of 1.8

Players should get a respec.
Reasons: Back when I joined at the cusp of Uprising, I could not get a Respec. I had 500k SP, and I was getting slaughtered. No tutorial to help me.Then, I specced in the Assault Rifle, because the Scrambler seemed strange, and while everyone was slaying in it, I had no idea of the skill system, that I could just spec into something. I used the Assault Rilfe throughout play, and watched it be eclipsed again and again.

Then the Combat Rifle came out, and I learned about racial parity, and suits. I don't want points in the Assault Rifle. I want only my Combat Rifle and my Mass Driver, Flaylock, and Submachine Gun. Dust 514 is about being the soldier YOU want to be. The reasons we didn't get a respec in 1.8 boggles me. You are adding suits, people want to play their suit a certain way. Why the hell would a scout need points in HMGs?

Why would a Minmatar Logi want points into Cardiac Regulators if they use to run scouts?

"Players should branch out" Players should do whatever they want. You do not have the right to tell me that I should keep my sp because "I might need it." I want to use my sp at that moment, and it has been a year. There are mistakes, there have been changes. FOTM is a lie, made up because everyone hates getting stomped. If people were stomping you in the Minmatar Scout, would you call it OP, or would you say they're just good players? Oh no but the second you see an Amarr Scout, everyone thinks it's FOTM. Well of course it is, it is taking the bonus of the Cal Scout. That is not FOTM when people go into a suit that they have always wanted. That is bs to claim otherwise, and i will be damned if people are against a Respec after Delta, because you cannot blame a player for making mistakes when the game screwed up. You can change things, but something as radical as bonuses? Respec. You want to change Heavies, respec. People specced in the Gallente Sentnel because it had more Lows than the Amarr so they could Armor stack. Is it there fault CCP screwed up and gave the Gallente (Armor-Reppers), more Lows than Armor stackers?! If you're going to screw people over, then you sure as hell better teach them first.
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+1 for a Respec, and I don't care if I get banned, I will get one, and so will everyone who wants one.

If as a result of any upcoming changes I feel a respec is warranted, I'll of course support it but if I think it's going to lead to another FOTM situation that might lead to yet another scramble calls for respecs 6 months down the road, then I be more reluctant to do so.

This is something we will have to address pre-respec: balance.

If balancing has not been performed to every dropsuit then when a respec hits most players are going to gravitate towards whatever suits can boast the best stats.

Charlie is balancing scouts and assaults. I believe I read that Delta is slated to balance logistics and sentinels.

Armor and shield tanking modules have been balanced in Alpha and Bravo and I have confidence that CCP Rattati and Logibro would make further adjustments to them if they were over/under-performing.

Light weapon balance is the best it has been... pretty much ever. Sidearms are being reviewed in Charlie.

Perhaps after the balancing passes we will be ready for a respec.