Even if just temporarily it's desperately needed in a game as incomplete and imbalanced as this.

Slap a price tag on it, hell make it cost aurum if you want to be a **** about it. Even toss on a time limit so someone can only do it once a week or month or something so it isn't abused.

Even at this "release" stage of the game there are too many missing pieces of critical equipment and items that may be nerfed into oblivion one day or buffed out of it.

Forcing your players to either gimp themselves waiting for an addition/update that may never come or punishing those that invest just to find that next week they've wasted everything is just a **** move. There's enough grinding in this game as it is, people shouldn't be needing to grind even more to make up for trying to enjoy the game before a new addition takes a crap on all they've done so far.

Someone wants to try playing as a logi or a heavy? Well they're going to have to invest a load of sp into it just to get to a point where they are actually built like one just to find out that they're horrible at it and now get to either quit the game in rage or play a game they hate until they can dump more sp into the next specialty just to toss the dice again.

Quit dicking around and playing with these partial respecs already and just add a self respecing system.

The skillsystem is supposed to give weight to your decisions concerning role and gear. Increasing Specialization goes along with increasing effort and time required, increasing the cost of changes the further one goes. Bearing the consequences of ones decision is a central aspect of the new eden philosophy and is a worthwhile aspect for this reason alone but not exclusively.

The skilltree differs from many other progression systems in that it is not just a strife to power but rather a strife to flexibility. Once you max all relevant skills of one progression you can choose to invest into a second one, and then another and so on. This means that while the amount of SP to be had is in practical terms unlimited (there is a set amount but i don't expect it to be reached, possibly even through the game's lifespan) there is a limit of power any given combination of suit/gear can have. That allows (relatively) new players to compete with year old veterans if they full on specialize. The vet can still use his excess SP to change his role in a whimp, giving him the deserved advantage over the newer player but the total possible gap is limited.

A system without respecs can also dramatically shift the power between new and old blood, whenever new gear is released. New situations and fits emerge that veterans first have to spec into just as new players, giving the latter the chance to compete even early on if they're smart. That gives Vets a changing enviroment where staying on top is an ongoing cognitive effort to adapt to the changes.

If CCP were to introduce respecs, both concepts would break down.

Everyone could become everything without any time effort invested, giving flexibilty as a default and rendering excess SP near worthless, thus lowering replay value and, of course profitability (boosters, anyone?). It would reduce the skillsystem to a comparatively short powergrind and nothing else. No one likes grinding (i guess).

More dramatic even is the effect that Vets with enough SP can switch to whatever is new, OP or just interesting, depriving new blood of the chance to jump into the game and compet on the new content. This leads to a "why bother" effect where players avoid the game because they could never become relevant without millions of SP and leaves the high SP chars with an unchallengeable superiority and ultimately with boredom due to lack of competition.

TL;DR: NO

No No No No No No, I'm tired of people not making a commitment "Oh, this didn't work out as well as i thought it would, i'm gonna respec" the "**** move" would be to offer a respect AT ALL, it would be a slap in the face to the vets that play this game



Oh and HTFU

As a vet who knows that new equipment is coming down the pipeline, I am one of the many that believe optional respecs should be available. My personal preference is that as new gear is introduced or major changes to how the equipment is being "balanced" occurs that the option becomes available to do a respec.

Many people use the TAC ARs at this point in time because it allows them to be competitive with heavies, mcc snipers and the other medium suited mercs who are using the weapon and we all know that when the other rifles are introduced the TAC is going to be nerfed (as stated by ccp: range and damage). I would like to use one of the new weapons when they come out and hope that the respec option will be available again, unfortunately due to needing a weapon now, I used my SP as I saw fit and would do so again under the same situation.

As If respecs were allowed once per year (like attribute changes in eve online) I believe it would be fair and would limit people from constantly changing their skills to the flavor of the month. Whether this is a paid service or not, I believe the option should be available. Personally I would rather just be able to select an option in the UI to respec character when I have a respec available rather than the need to contact customer support for this service.

In Eve the client software handles attribute adjustments, this would be the Dust equivalent. I realize this is more programming that would need to be done but I imagine that it would save devs and customer support staff a great deal of time were this feature to be offered through the game client itself rather than make it a customer support issue. Then, when a player has earned a respec, they could wait and save it until something new comes out or use it to correct a mistake they made when choosing a skill last week or a year ago.

See posts 2, 3, 4, 5, & 7.

There are already cries that Dust is P2W. CCP has narrowly avoided crossing the line on this and I commend them all in all for how well they've done (tho the "better than Proto" AUR gear needs a touch of the nerf bat or needs an ISK equivalent.) but allow players to buy respecs and D514 is P2W no ifs ands or buts about it.

Beyond that Dust and EVE are not "separate games" happening in isolated worlds they are both aspects of the events taking place in one domain New Eden. The link between games is rudimentary at this point sure but the roadmap calls for completely integration and that disbars the use of "your choices don't really matter you can always just undo" modes of game development.

Even if Dust and EVE weren't part of a single world the idea of respecs in Dust as a common thing (payed or otherwise) is awful because of its totally devaluing effect on the secondary market. There will be no sandbox if the economics are dismissed so cavalier a fashion. The sandbox thrives on player driven effects, on choices with meaning. When changes as fundamental as what gear (and how well) every merc can run become as mutable as whim then larger things like long term tactical planning, market trend analysis (or tend setting), out of the box innovation, et al become devalued. Why plan long term when everything can be changed within minutes? Why try to understand or care about the economics when tomorrow everyone may be running max gear of a totally different type? Why innovate when everyone else can clone everything you've done after a single match?

You know what else respecs do? They kill the longevity of the game. CCP stated out of the gate (or before the gate even opened if you're counting closed beta) that they were building Dust to take around 7.5 years to max all skills (assuming there weren't new skills added along the way... ) add limitless respecs and what used to require mufti-millions of SP involving years of game play to earn will now be reduced to a matter of months as everyone who's earned to the SP for a single proto build is now proto in everything since they can swap at will.

Put bluntly, unlimited respecs (yes even those you have to P2W for) sell the future of the game to appease a lack of patience or dedication among some players... and frankly players who aren't interested in being here for the long haul aren't going to stick around either way so shortening the lifespan of the game to hold on to their attention for a few weeks (or possibly months) more is not only poor game development but bad business as well.

0.02 ISK
Cross

ps ~ For those who want to talk about the EVE remap remember the following.
Being able to focus your future SP gain =/= altering your previously assigned SP.

EDIT: Also this idea has been brought up and shot down several times already, one recent example and my first post from it

and a bonus

As I stated in my earlier post here I am for a limited, non ISK/money based respec option.

I say this because despite a few elitists, purists, diehards, stubborn gamers, whatever you want to call them, believe that dust should function the same as eve on the timeline and skill investment level. I do not agree.

It shouldn't because it is a different game. It is a shooter. This is a FTP game at the core, and I'm of the opinion that bringing so much eve obsession. Forcing this kind of time sink and commitment on everyone will make them leave. Some of these people say GTFO to everyone that even suggest the idea! Even in eve (which I play) hearing other people's demands on what they consider "commitment" and "dedication" the the universe means very little to me. It is a game!

I am for finding a balance of options here, a respec that is limited, has a penalty, and doesn't cost real money or isk.
Seriously, the number of people who are going to commit to a 5 year training plan with no leniency in a shooter is few and far between. Seriously, who cares enough to pledge their time and long term interests to the ideals of a few misguided game nuts.
If anything just allowing a respec a couple times a year would let people try new stuff, which would probably keep them playing longer.

There is no hostility. It's my guess that the majority of people who share my opinion will not "kiss the ring" and do something else that isn't so time consuming as keeping an edge in new eden.

I just want to see the battle fields well populated for a long time by fps players, not just those who swear by EVE, also you kind of prove one point I was stating. Some people take these games way too seriously.
"Attacked the foundation" what is this a religion?

Other than your final remark i feel you, but Dust is not going to die just because part of the potential consumer base disagrees with one aspect of the game. Dust is trying to catch all those folks who like FPS but don't like the simplicity of many FPS and i believe they are legion. Ok not quite, but a game doesn't need to beat COD to be successfull.

A weapons lab is on the way, new militia stuff is likely to be added, trying stuff will become easier in the future so we don't need respecs to fix this anymore.

I have explained on the first page why i think that a "no respec" policy is an important and enriching aspect of the game and why i think that allowing respecs could damage the skillsystem to a point where it's very existence is called into question.

No respecs have their own downsides an some people might leave the game because of them. Others, like me, are here partly because of this aspect and it's implications. There are people that wouldn't play COD or BF but play Dust just as there are people that don't care for WoW or Guildwars but love EVE Online. These are the ones whom this game is made for.

@ Cross Atu
In post 8 I had a quite simple balanced proposal for adding a respec feature that would allow people to occasionally change battlefield roles. My goal here is simple, balance the requests for a respec while keeping the bonus of persistent choice.

Maybe you're lacking something to bring such a quantified and over complicated, beaurocratic, analysis system to figuring out something as plain as giving people the chance to play a game, not live by it.

You are totally missing my point, the quest for the submission to the value of persistent meaning might not mean as much to other people as it does you. When you turn on your PS3 and play some dust does it fulfill your quest for meaning of choice???
Some people who are good at the game and have put considerable time into just want to play differently every now and then. Why is that such a camplicated idea?

Thank you for listening.

I can understand the adherence to eve, but it's got to be obvious that if that is the only group that picks up DUST and continues to play it there aren't going to be the large scale battles happening all over planets like people want to imagine. More likely it'll become a bunch of skirmishes between a few bad ass corps with a few pubbers here and there.

My intention here isn't all that bad...

[quote=RoundEy3]@ Cross Atu
In post 8 I had a quite simple balanced proposal for adding a respec feature that would allow people to occasionally change battlefield roles. My goal here is simple, balance the requests for a respec while keeping the bonus of persistent choice.

Ok at least you're looking at this for what it is.
The great part about the SP penalty is since it is a % obviously the less SP you have the more this would affect you. Basically a young character who switches around often will find it is difficult to advance in ability overall, but the respec would allow them to switch roles non the less. Where as a vet character with many SP will find little value to even doing it in the first place since there will be a point you will have crosstrained anyhow.
Also to further balance it out we're talking a couple times a year. A YEAR

By completely removing the option who is losing out? The person who is bored, unsatisfied with their current setup, wants to take on a new squad role, or the person who says "No, that was your choice" ???

@ Cross Atu
In post 8 I had a quite simple balanced proposal for adding a respec feature that would allow people to occasionally change battlefield roles. My goal here is simple, balance the requests for a respec while keeping the bonus of persistent choice.

Maybe you're lacking something to bring such a quantified and over complicated, beaurocratic, analysis system to figuring out something as plain as giving people the chance to play a game, not live by it.

You are totally missing my point, the quest for the submission to the value of persistent meaning might not mean as much to other people as it does you. When you turn on your PS3 and play some dust does it fulfill your quest for meaning of choice???
Some people who are good at the game and have put considerable time into just want to play differently every now and then. Why is that such a camplicated idea?

I'm curious if most of the people who are against respecs are either.

A. EVE players who are "elitist a" and swear by a gaming culture that is almost a religion.

Or

B. Those who have 10+ million SP already and don't want to even the playing field.

@chin

You don't care, do you?

Cross has gone through great lengths in posting that well-thought-out statement and yet you just dismiss it. All because you are just too impatient to train for everything for the next seven to ten years. You don't belong here if you think respecs (paid or otherwise) are important for you.

I hate to say it but I have come to believe this feature is needed for DUST. If this were EVE I'd say absolutely not, no way, never, but this is a very different game with a very different crowd.

I could talk a lot about the similarities and differences, but instead here's my basic suggestion on respec options.

First: There would be a respec limit. By that I mean 2-4 times a year or something like that.

Second: For the cost..... Simple, just make it cost like 20% of your current SP pool to respec.

That way the option is there pretty frequently, there is a penalty to doing it, so one wouldn't want to do it often, and there's no real money involved!

Malkai,

I actually agree with you, I'm not trying to change your culture, religion or whatever Internet cult you follow. I would just like to see Greater access to in game references regarding each individual skill treed and the consequences of making a impulsive decision on DUST. My argument is that not every player is informed if the unforgiving nature of this game.

So then we are in complete agreement concerning the underlying premises and differ only in our personal opninions about what to make out of them. Sadly, this is where it gets serious.

Lol, make it part of the Elite pack. $99.00 for 1 respec.

There. Respec all you want.

@cross

So are you for or against a respec option?

Also curious how much sp you are rolling with since you have been around since closed beta.

So then we are in complete agreement concerning the underlying premises and differ only in our personal opninions about what to make out of them. Sadly, this is where it gets serious.

I would like to stress again that i find the currently available amount and quality of ingame information, be it informative and concise skill descriptions or thorough and accurate attribute descriptions of various items wholly inadequate. This, i believe leads to uneducated decisions regarding skills and gear and is the main reason for the issues that respecs are supposed to solve.I predict that if the NPE get's it's due improvements, there will be a far lower need for any kind of respec mechanic.

A possible solution that i find both compatible with my vision of New Eden and of great efficacy is a short but steep increase in passive SP gain for new players. Something like a 2x multiplier for caracters below 1.5m SP wich then gradually lowers until 2m where passive sp gain reaches the normal value.

This lessens the negative consequences of faulty skillchoices, provides quicker perceived improvement for new players and, most importantly, stays true to the concept of skillchoices beeing permanent. The values are of course arbitrary so there's room for discussion about how long and significant this boost ought to be.

Is this a joke or not? Of course I'm not waiting for 7-10 years to try everything. Dust won't last that long.

Ok ok, not to be ignorant here but where are the resources for me that actually explain what I'm spending my sp on? I feel that until ccp does a really good job of explaining all the details of my sp purchases than respecs are needed. Not every player is gonna go read pages and pages of wiki data to research one sp purchase. I don't feel there is enough IN GAME information explaining the details of dust skills and equipment to yield no sp respecs.

I stopped reading your post right here. You definitely don't belong here. I suggest you leave Dust.

If they are going to continue to change items and their effectiveness, then yes allow purchasable respecs.

Eventually those remaining in Dust will leave. Whether you read my post or not is of no effect to that. If you think a game with an average of 6000 players and a max so far around only 10,000 players at release will last a decade, damn, you are extremely optimistic.

If they are going to continue to change items and their effectiveness, then yes allow purchasable respecs.

Why can't people understand..... There is no such thing as a wrong choice. You will keep earning sp forever. You can't run out of sp which will prevent you from speccing into anything different ever again. Sure, you might set yourself back a few months, even a year, but you can still recover from that. Respecs are not needed. Especially not AUR respecs, that's just ridiculous and people should stop suggesting it.

waah why do players want to play how they want NOW they should have to wait months waah waah waaaaaaaaaah

Cross's early post says it all in a rather firm nut shell. its far too long to quote effectively, but its all true none the less.

live with your choices, dont decide 'oh, i have to undo this' just because something happened to kick you around. its a cheap gameplay mechanic, and not worth it, since a respec does lead to Flavor of the Month abuse, and that would absolutely destroy the game

Yea... because what totally won't destroy the game is having people invest weeks or months into developing a particular weapon or dropsuit or anything else just to find out that after a quick patch and zero warning it's now a worthless piece of crap.

I can totally see loads of players eager to throw away all that time spent and start all over without knowing what will arbitrarily get the hatchet next.

waah why do players want to play how they want NOW they should have to wait months waah waah waaaaaaaaaah

oh stop with the whining already. you want to cheapen the game, just so you can go with whatever is most OP at the time with how you are lobbying for this useless, cheap game mechanic. i would rather hear good things [if there are any with these useless respec ideas] that this could do, because yes, they are tweaking lots of things, but then agin, how will you know if you're getting a good or bad tweak if you just change into something else>

Nope, bad idea.

While I can get behind a respec upon graduation from the Academy, you're supposed to live with your choices. The best way to learn something is through failure.

Also while every player with 1mil SP wishes dearly that they could respec, just think of how broken the game would become if the players with 14mil could just respec into the flavour of the month whenever they wanted.

Good things respecs could do?

How about providing longevity to the game without requiring the torture of the players?

Without respecs and because of how this game is designed you're forced to specialize into one role if you don't want to get your *** handed to you over and over again. So what happens when you get tired of that role or a core mechanic of your role gets nerfed destroying your play style?

Without respecs you're forced to reinvest weeks and months into starting over from scratch investing in a new line of dropsuits and weapons and modules to outfit yourself in a manner that you can actually enjoy again. How many people do you think are going to just say "**** that" and quit when they're told all the work they put into their initial setup is now a pile of fetid ****?

Respecs allow people to experiment, to try something new, to grow bored with the game and have a multitude of new setups available to try out and enjoy all over again.

Good things respecs could do?

How about providing longevity to the game without requiring the torture of the players?

Without respecs and because of how this game is designed you're forced to specialize into one role if you don't want to get your *** handed to you over and over again. So what happens when you get tired of that role or a core mechanic of your role gets nerfed destroying your play style?

Without respecs you're forced to reinvest weeks and months into starting over from scratch investing in a new line of dropsuits and weapons and modules to outfit yourself in a manner that you can actually enjoy again. How many people do you think are going to just say "**** that" and quit when they're told all the work they put into their initial setup is now a pile of fetid ****?

Respecs allow people to experiment, to try something new, to grow bored with the game and have a multitude of new setups available to try out and enjoy all over again.

Fourth and fith paragraph. Please explain why his disagreement is unjustified.

Flavor of The Moth builds... where do i begin?

they are nothing but fleeting FADS, and do not stand up to the real tests that people should see in a long time persistant game. there is a point where shifting about is fine, but a total wipe and rebuild on even a bi-monthly basis would lead to making your build, getting tired of the build, and whining for another respec. and it turns into a painful cycle untill you've tried enough things and then walk away. games that have done that have in many ways, just up and died because of a mass loss in player base.

How many people do you really believe are going to be playing this game for 7.5 years? This isn't an mmo where you have a varied and rich game where people can lose themselves in various aspects and enjoy themselves over long periods.

Dust is not an mmo, it's not the new EVE where people will spend years and years and years playing it. Dust is an FPS, it's complexity boils down to shooting stuff. If suddenly you're nerfed to hell and your ability to shoot stuff suddenly screeches to a halt you don't have many alternatives to fall back on outside starting over from scratch with a new setup. There's no "well I can always fall back on X" or "well I still enjoy the Y aspect of the game" or "well I'll just have fun with Z until they fix this"

Even then an artificial longevity propagated purely by arbitrarily selected point value goals is not a true longevity. If someone really enjoys a game they don't play it for a year because that's how long it takes to unlock their next skill, they do it because over that year they enjoyed it enough to come back over and over again.

How many people do you really believe are going to be playing this game for 7.5 years? This isn't an mmo where you have a varied and rich game where people can lose themselves in various aspects and enjoy themselves over long periods.

So flavor of the month fads don't stand up to the long term experimentation the stagnant builds we have no do?

CCP has a tendency to balance their games, and not just throw their hands up in the air and say "F it!". If it's OP today, you can bet that it will be brought into line. Your gun won't become useless, it will be balanced. TAC AR's are getting attention as we speak, if you think they weren't a problem, or that they've been nerfed so hard that you want to spec out of AR Operations all together, you are kidding yourself.

I support a once-per-PSN respec, and it should only be available when you graduate the Newb Academy.

Once a player realizes that they shouldn't have put all that SP in Corp skills ect, I feel that they should get the opportunity to change their SP choices. It will be a one-time offer, and it will allow for mistakes to be adjusted after a player gets used to the SP tree, the game mechanics, and has a feel for what they want to spec into. It will not allow the players to choose when it will be used as I envision that upon graduating they will be presented with the option, that will be valid until they play their first non-academy game.

Anything other than this is would be bad for the game.

Flavor of The Moth builds... where do i begin?

they are nothing but fleeting FADS, and do not stand up to the real tests that people should see in a long time persistant game. there is a point where shifting about is fine, but a total wipe and rebuild on even a bi-monthly basis would lead to making your build, getting tired of the build, and whining for another respec. and it turns into a painful cycle untill you've tried enough things and then walk away. games that have done that have in many ways, just up and died because of a mass loss in player base.

also, if you rely on those that respec all the time, they will always either cry OP or UP, because they spec into someting, whine about how bad it is, then whine that the choice they made before was killing them so effectively it does get nerfed. we need to keep solid numbers and figures in this game.

thsoe spreadsheets are courtesy of EVE players that did not want to have to worry about a respec, so they came up with something that works reletively well here in DUST, so that way you can actually plan ahead and reduce the likelyhood of mistakes. it adds to some of the longevity, and what people might think of doing after they have added enough to what they've chosen.

this is going to be a LONG TERM game, hopefully long as EVE got to recently, and running a game for so long will take alot of tweaks, shifts and fixes. you are probably one of many that make mistakes in the game, and think that to have fun you actually need the best things. hell, i made mistakes too, but i chose to live with them, because i knew i could fix what i was lacking in. i see why others want Respecs, but i honestly cannot support it.

Long term thinking, its what CCP is doing, its what alot of the good players are doing, i'm afraid you need to think that as well, and work at it. but have fun with what you've got, that way you know what you can and cant do effectively as you go.

I hate to say it but I have come to believe this feature is needed for DUST. If this were EVE I'd say absolutely not, no way, never, but this is a very different game with a very different crowd.

I could talk a lot about the similarities and differences, but instead here's my basic suggestion on respec options.

First: There would be a respec limit. By that I mean 2-4 times a year or something like that.

Second: For the cost..... Simple, just make it cost like 20% of your current SP pool to respec.

That way the option is there pretty frequently, there is a penalty to doing it, so one wouldn't want to do it often, and there's no real money involved!

Even if just temporarily it's desperately needed in a game as incomplete and imbalanced as this.

Slap a price tag on it, hell make it cost aurum if you want to be a **** about it. Even toss on a time limit so someone can only do it once a week or month or something so it isn't abused.

Even at this "release" stage of the game there are too many missing pieces of critical equipment and items that may be nerfed into oblivion one day or buffed out of it.

Forcing your players to either gimp themselves waiting for an addition/update that may never come or punishing those that invest just to find that next week they've wasted everything is just a **** move. There's enough grinding in this game as it is, people shouldn't be needing to grind even more to make up for trying to enjoy the game before a new addition takes a crap on all they've done so far.

Someone wants to try playing as a logi or a heavy? Well they're going to have to invest a load of sp into it just to get to a point where they are actually built like one just to find out that they're horrible at it and now get to either quit the game in rage or play a game they hate until they can dump more sp into the next specialty just to toss the dice again.

Quit dicking around and playing with these partial respecs already and just add a self respecing system.

Honestly, people are replying to this post saying it's "dishonorable" or "not new eden". Bullshit. If DUST 514 is going to compete with other games, it needs replayablity. Since people keep demanding new items added to the game, why not have a different solution to hold off the needy customers... respecs. So many games have them, and I know people say: "New Eden isn't for COD noobs" or something along the lines that Dust isn't easy. Yeah even with respecs your going to have people it proto suits and another 20 mil SP holding them up. Honestly thats never going to change. Maybe adding a feature to the game that will make people want to play after reaching their weekly cap, is a good thing to the game as a whole, and maybe it will hurt the "vets" a little because "noobs" will have a standing chance. Honestly people grow up and stop complaining about a damn game mechanic ...

How about a partial respec? every 6 months, you get to reset 25% of your SP. they would have to add a menu where you can choose the skills that you want to back out of however, up to 25% of course

Ok ok, not to be ignorant here but where are the resources for me that actually explain what I'm spending my sp on? I feel that until ccp does a really good job of explaining all the details of my sp purchases than respecs are needed. Not every player is gonna go read pages and pages of wiki data to research one sp purchase. I don't feel there is enough IN GAME information explaining the details of dust skills and equipment to yield no sp respecs.

How about a partial respec? every 6 months, you get to reset 25% of your SP. they would have to add a menu where you can choose the skills that you want to back out of however, up to 25% of course

How many people do you really believe are going to be playing this game for 7.5 years? This isn't an mmo where you have a varied and rich game where people can lose themselves in various aspects and enjoy themselves over long periods.

Dust is not an mmo, it's not the new EVE where people will spend years and years and years playing it. Dust is an FPS, it's complexity boils down to shooting stuff. If suddenly you're nerfed to hell and your ability to shoot stuff suddenly screeches to a halt you don't have many alternatives to fall back on outside starting over from scratch with a new setup. There's no "well I can always fall back on X" or "well I still enjoy the Y aspect of the game" or "well I'll just have fun with Z until they fix this"

Even then an artificial longevity propagated purely by arbitrarily selected point value goals is not a true longevity. If someone really enjoys a game they don't play it for a year because that's how long it takes to unlock their next skill, they do it because over that year they enjoyed it enough to come back over and over again.

10,000,000 ISK
Available once every 720 hours
No skillbook refunding

Nope, bad idea.

While I can get behind a respec upon graduation from the Academy, you're supposed to live with your choices. The best way to learn something is through failure.

Also while every player with 1mil SP wishes dearly that they could respec, just think of how broken the game would become if the players with 14mil could just respec into the flavour of the month whenever they wanted. Adding timers or diminishing returns isn't going to help or change that. As new things come out everyone will have an equal opportunity to skill into it, no need to respec your entire character.

To those still supporting the OP and general respecs please read and respond to in detail my posts #19 & #92.
There's a lot of ground to cover and the issues presented within those two posts (as well as other posts not by me) really do require an address before any such idea should be considered for adoption into the game.

Cheers,
Cross