Keep Enhancements after respec

There has to be a way for the devs to make it where we can keep the extra enhancements we spent influ on and sell them on wentworths for a chance at getting our influ back after we respec. I mean, only being able to save 10 enh to sell our of some of us 20-30? Lets find a way to keep them and put the used enhancements back in the market instead of letting them just disappear.

Before respecs were given to us, the devs were up in the air whether we should keep any enhancements AT ALL. Be happy we get 10.

The point of an enhancement is that it's permanent. Being able to shift them around after a respec is nice, being able to keep ten is completely generous.

As it stands, if you have that many IO/HOs that you simply must for some reason get off a character, you have the option of burning multiple respecs to do so. Which, based on the fact that the Devs seriously considered not allowing the ten at all, is probably something that Devs disapprove of but don't consider to be worth the time, trouble and acrimony involved in fixing.

In short, don't look a gift horse in the mouth angrily demanding a better horse.

For set IOs, since you keep the same primary and secondary, chances are you will be reusing a lot of them anyway, same with generics. So, you typically are not losing out on much.

If you really want to maximize what you keep, then you have to bite the bullet and use up a second or third respec, saving 10 and slotting the rest each time.

In fact, I will probably be doing that on my 50s when and if I ever get around to giving them a final optimized build. At that time, I will go ahead and use up however many respecs it takes and stash my best IOs that the final build won't need for the benefit of my alts. May as well, since after that, she should never really need to respec again, and if she does, and I'm out of free and vetspecs, I can always do the trials or wait until the next freespec comes down the pike.

By the way, is this holiday respec that will be available from the Candy Keeper this year stackable with other freespecs (like the freebie given out each issue stacks with the Patron Freespec)? How does it work?

Also: How is this a question?

Well, although not specifically stated, the question appears to be, "Can the devs please let us keep more than 10 enhancements after a respec?"

I thought that was pretty obvious myself. /em shrug

I'll vent also. Back when SOs were the norm, they were so interchangeable it wasn't that big a deal. Now it just's painful having to figure out/plan what is the best way to strip out a few sets. I know I stripped out my PB by going thru 5 respecs.

I personally have alot of toons, that I never play anymore, but have some sweet sets that I'm just too lazy to strip out the IOs. If I could it wouldn't give me the incentive to strive for that next new shiny.

I feel your pain. After I13 I had some PVP toons that were no longer enjoyable to play. I had to burn several respecs to get back what I wanted to put on other toons. Would it have been nice to be able to just take everything and put it in storage somewhere? Yes. Do I ever expect that to happen? Hell no.

Ignoring the issue of whether this topic should be in the Player Questions forum or elsewhere, I'd like to add my 2 cents.

The rule that enhancements are permanently locked to a character made a lot more sense when we were just dealing with standard enhancements - TOs, DOs, and SOs. The game has changed a LOT over the last five years, and in this case I strongly feel that the introduction of the Invention system warrants a change to how this works.

My proposal: Implement a system where you can visit some sort of special NPC (like the merit vendors) that would act as a special Trainer. For some set amount (which should probably scale by level... cheaper for lowbies and more expensive for lvl 50s) you would be able to pay the new Trainer to unlock an enhancement. At level 50, it should be relatively costly... maybe something like 2-5 million per enhancement. So, you would be able to unlock 10 enhancements (the equivalent of a current respec) for 20-50 million, which is considerably cheaper than a respec recipe at this point. And, it would take a lot less time and be a lot less of a hassle than going through a respec just to swap out enhancements (which I have done WAY too many times on my main hero since purples were introduced).

As it stands, to free up enhancements, not only do you have to burn a respec, but you have to run through the tedious process or re-selecting powers and slots, putting all of the enhancements that you want to keep back in place, reorganizing all of the powers on your bars (why in the world we can't lock these before a respec I'll never understand), etc. This is just unnecessary. Allowing us to pay to unlock individual enhancements would make this process a lot quicker, and it would also provide a new influence/infamy sink to the game, which (as I understand it) is always desirable.

From a story perspective, I don't think that it would have any impact whatsoever. It's not like the whole idea of being able to purchase an enhancement and have it locked to your power makes a ton of sense in the first place. It's really just the way the game works. So, tweaking this to say that if you pay this special Trainer enough influence he'll unlock that enhancement for you seems, to me at least, to make just as much sense.

That comment was made after the Invention system came out.

I understood the comments as implying that a consideration was made about reducing it, and am thankful they didn't.

Until the devs make it so that the enhancement tray can hold more than 10, you really should make use of Mids hero designer.

Cuts back on the need for respecs. Not to mention looking for the various opinions on these forums with respect to a power's usefulness.

Someone here should have the link to Mids handy.

It's a really easy link
http://cohplanner.com

The bottom line is respecs need some streamlining. They are a tedious and necessary function now that IOs have been implemented, and changes to the game make them unavoidable, yet the nature of respeccing means I have many toons left for dead because they are simply more trouble then they are worth to me to try and respec the HOs etc out of them. I earned these rewards, therefore do not wish to just delete them, yet without doing a series of respecs (each of which is tedious and unfun) I cannot really get access to them.

I dont really know how to fix the current system, but I have to agree with the OPs sentiment that it needs change. I literally cant be bothered to spend my one hour a day tops of playtime 5 nights in a row to fully respec toons that need set changes, or HOs removed.

I think big picture-wise, most players would agree the respec system is no fun, yet unavoidable...

The Respec/IO System won't change, it's basically our "binds when equipped" feature.