The Hooded One - One Free Respec Per Character

To foster early-game experimentation with various skills, I'm recommending The Hooded One grants the player one free respec per character. Subsequent respecs on the same character requires Gold as usual. This would mostly benefit newer players, but veterans could also take part.

The first respec is on the house, just like first drink at a bar.

Gold is common enough - not necessary.

Nice step up from POE1 where respecs were gated behind the "Orb of Regret" currency item. Nowadays, just pay the fee in common gold.

+1

those saying "Gold is common enough"
Yes gold is common if you dedicate a great deal of time to farming it and hoarding it with your great screen clearing builds.

Now if you realize part way through trial and error and tremendous amounts of gambling and gear purchasing as you fidget with your troublesome build only to find... your build sucks and you want to completely redo it
I'm 100% ok with this being offered once

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xxDEITYxx#3520 wrote:

Gold is common enough - not necessary.

Nice step up from POE1 where respecs were gated behind the "Orb of Regret" currency item. Nowadays, just pay the fee in common gold.

The game should help new players experiment with different builds early in the campaign. This would only be offered once and then players need to pay a gold fee to respec.

What if they just ever so slightly buffed gold drops during campaign? This complaint feels like people who say they ran out of waystones and are "locked out" of mapping. Like, Brother, go farm it in the last few areas of campaign. If you're hurting that bad then the problem isn't the game so much as your approach.
These may be hurdles to your gameplay, but they are not insurmountable or even roadblocks, really. I guess what I am saying is it is already generally easy enough to do.

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freudo#0225 wrote:

If you're hurting that bad then the problem isn't the game so much as your approach.
These may be hurdles to your gameplay, but they are not insurmountable or even roadblocks, really.

I see no real downside to having one and only one free respec. This will help newer players experiment with different skills. I can't think of a reason not to include this. Heck, D2 has free respecs during the campaign, so why not PoE2?

A full respec at level 94 is roughly 500k gold, sounds almost free to me.

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IILU81II#8410 wrote:

A full respec at level 94 is roughly 500k gold, sounds almost free to me.

Level 94 is endgame; most people don't make it that far. I talking about a new character at level 20 that would like to respec into another build and has limited gold reserves. People need to stop thinking only about endgame, the campaign is just as important.

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CharlesJT#7681 wrote:

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IILU81II#8410 wrote:

A full respec at level 94 is roughly 500k gold, sounds almost free to me.

Level 94 is endgame; most people don't make it that far. I talking about a new character at level 20 that would like to respec into another build and has limited gold reserves. People need to stop thinking only about endgame, the campaign is just as important.

you calling it a build at level 20??
And a respec before the very first ascendancy, what exactly do you wanna experiment with 20 skill points?
Please you dont even see how effective a build can be before endgame/late cruel..

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IILU81II#8410 wrote:

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CharlesJT#7681 wrote:

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IILU81II#8410 wrote:

A full respec at level 94 is roughly 500k gold, sounds almost free to me.

Level 94 is endgame; most people don't make it that far. I talking about a new character at level 20 that would like to respec into another build and has limited gold reserves. People need to stop thinking only about endgame, the campaign is just as important.

you calling it a build at level 20??
And a respec before the very first ascendancy, what exactly do you wanna experiment with 20 skill points?
Please you dont even see how effective a build can be before endgame/late cruel..

I'm talking about changing low-level skills and respec because the player wants to take a different approach. Yes, one free respec would help newer players. Some players lose interest before reaching endgame.