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Do I, or do I not have any respecs?

Demented

By Demented,
Posted on: 2009-10-20 12:48 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

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OK, I just hit level 22 on my Plants/Psionic Dom, and I wanted to respec her so as not to completely waste the inf I had spent on her DO's. When I log in, it says I have 4 respecs remaining, and to type /respec in the chat window to respec my character. However, when I do that, nothing happens, and I see the message that I don't have any remaining, and I have to go see so and so in Nerva. What gives?

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Types of Respecifications

Though there are many ways of acquiring respecifications, the respecs themselves fall into only two types: earned and free. The type depends on the method used to achive it:

* Trial Respecs - earned, up to 3 possible
* Veteran Respecs - earned, up to 4 possible (at 45 months)
* Patron Respecs - earned, 1 possible (Villain only)
* Soldiers of Arachnos Respec - earned, 1 possible (Villain only)
* Purchased Respec - earned, theoretically unlimited
* Free Respec - free (A character can only have 1 at a time and they do not stack)
* Respec Recipes - free (These cannot be crafted if the character already has a free respec available)

A character can accumulate any number of earned respecs, but at most one free one. Any more gained while a character already has one are lost.

An earned respec is used by visiting a special contact.

* For heroes, this contact is Jack Wolfe, located in the Freedom Corps headquarters in Galaxy City.
* For villains: Arbiter Lupin, located next to Arbiter Frederick in the Nerva Archipelago; and Arbiter Sawyer, standing near the Pocket D entrance in Port Oakes.

A free respec is used by either visiting the above contacts, typing the /respec command on the chat command line at anytime or anywhere, though it is still subject to limitations

From http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Respec

 

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The quick answer:

Yes, you have 4 respecs available, but no free ones. To use earned respecs in CoV, go and see Arbiter Sawyer in Port Oakes or Arbiter Lupin in Nerva.

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Odd, because I thought the veteran respecs were the ones that you could just do /respec anywhere in game, and respec your character. I did wind up going to Sawyer, and all is well. It just irked me a bit.

Thanks!

EDIT: Off-Topic...what is with the negative rep thing? That's rather ignorant. -3 rep...psh...Not saying anyone here did anything to me, but the system itself...

EDIT: And to the person who did negatively rep me, the least you could do is sign your rep...'ehh a 51 month vet should know better' or whatever is lame indeed. Is there a place I can negatively rep you? 'A moronic idiot, who has nothing better to do that to basically put someone down for not knowing, should know better'. That's what I'd write...totally lame...

And yeah I guess I'm writing a bit much about it, but I could MAYBE understand the negative rep thing if I was making harassing threads, or trolling, but for not knowing...wow...

I needed to vent that.

Global: @Midnight Blues
"How can you master, when you have not failed?"