Thread: Should there be respeccing in D3?

Those of us who have D2 experience know you only had one shot to set the stats on your character. The system had its good and bad points. The best thing about this system was that it required thought and insight. You would have to research beforehand on how you would make a good character. This allowed less clones and allowed people to stand out better. You could truly see the difference between who was very good and just average regardless of their items.

The bad thing about the old d2 system is if you got a new item or messed up on your characters build you would have to remake the char over again from level 1. So should the old system stay? Should you be able to change your characters stats without having to re-level a new character. Should there be a limited number of respecs? Or something else like taking away a level per stat/skill change?

One thing we should consider is with D2 nowadays anybody with friends can get to lvl80 in a day so creating new characters for a screw-up build is no problem but with D3 we won't have this ability and I'm sure Blizzard will take precautions to prevent this from happening again...probably to make people spend time with the storyline and character creation.

Character/class specific items was a good move with D2 (or was it LoD...or a patch..can't remember :P) I hope they impliment it just was well in D3!

I think along with a free/$ respec option there should be a quest to respec [x] skills and another for a reallocation of [x] # of stat points.. repeatable but with increasing difficulty for a maximum of 5 times.

This would allow casual players to respec and hardcore players to tweak their build ever so slightly...but to a point.