0.1.0d Hotfix 1

Hot take: Respecs should be free. There's plenty of time to be sunk just in crafting alone. In a game with as expansive a skilltree, with over a hundred points to spend, with it being early access on top of that, people are going to make mistakes. The devs even poke fun at this in PoE1 with "orbs of regret".

Is regret really a feeling you want to instill in your players?

200k gold to get part of my talents changed, I still need more gold to remove more passive from the tree. I need to get new gems slots for new gems. Amazing nerf... Are you guys going to give my gold back at least?

Can anyone explain what is even the GGG's reasoning behind discouraging respecing passives? I seriously can't come up with any positive or good explanation for this, what's wrong with experimenting? Especially when you destroy someone's character?

To all who whine about COF/COC build being "obviously OP" and our problem being an effect of "copying builds from youtube", I'll probably turn your world upside down by stating that I didn't watch any yt videos, came up with this build myself.

It was such an obvious thing to do the moment you unlock the COF skill, even more obvious with COC because that's a single real offensive passive in Elementalist ascendancy tree!
Without it, any white mob pack is a freaking boss encounter that drops nothing, there is simply no alternative build I can see for sorcerer that can clear packs of trash mob, maybe meteor with passives into aoe size, but even then, it casts WAY to slow for that!

And I don't think it was OP, at least in my version of build, it could occasionally rapid fire yes (incredibly fun btw), but it was only good for deleting white mobs which again should be a normal in an arpg.
Normal, unless we turn it into Dark Souls type of game, which won't work in looter game ffs, difficult bosses with matching reward are fun, difficult pawns are not!

Yeah im done until they do something about respec. im not gonna grind for hours or days just for them to throw a new build in the dumpster. i tried yesterday and today to grind back up and it just aint fun anymore.

At least you can play it, i can't even get in game. My game crashes as soon as the loading screen is about to end in Clearfell, not even new character can go past that. That is only after the "new" patch...

It is kinda interesting, the CoX nerf was actually a buff for my character, I am playing mom/ci/eb stormweaver and before it my payoff did get spammed on white mobs, draining my mana way too much - now I don't overkill useless stuff and it is getting used where I actually want it. On bosses exactly

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If you just get your own build going its pretty likely your build won't or won't hardly be affected by the nerfs.
I bet 90% of the people affected by abusing the former OP CoX mechanics did follow a guide with a title like.

Broken Cast on X Deletes bosses instantly and now they feel wronged for a broken overpowered non-investment build to be nerfed.

Make your own builds and enjoy the game
(I do agree on a passive respec though. Gatekeeping your testers because of a change you amde is weird)

Passive skill tree reset please, please. Not that this matters too much for my character but, passive skill tree reset is a MUST in these cases.

can we get a hotfix for the cast while moving bug? so many skills you can't move anymore, like Arc and Spark. Saw a few reports outside my own, and people on chat said they were experiencing the same with some bow skills as well.
that deeply hurts gameplay, guys. :(

Try changing the "always attack without moving" checkbox on the detail page of the individual skills. I banged my head against this all day, only to realize the settings now worked opposite of how they did yesterday.

The high gold cost of respeccing in EARLY ACCESS is one of the worst ideas GGG ever had to be honest.

So fun to wake up and see that your character doesnt work anymore after a patch. Even better if you dont have gold at that time and cant farm it because...well, your character doesnt work anymore.


Respeccing should be FREE in EA, at least until you are done with the biggest part of balancing the game. Its just too negative and frustrating for the players right now. At least make it free during the campaign if you have so many problems with it....