QoL - unslotting.

At any point has anyone asked or heard from the devs if there will be a way to deslot a toon without having to respec for 10 io's a time.

It has been suggested many, many times about unslotting on a limited basis. It would be a nice QoL change, but ClawsandEffect is right that the dev haven't indicated they would change their minds on this.

But I will add a recent post for reference, that I thought was a great idea, in case the devs did change their opinion.

Check out this thread:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=219336

It has an idea in it to do something similar to what you're asking, and I actually like the idea outlined in it.

Read the whole thread. A lot of suggestions made in it fleshed out the idea a lot more.

Pointless thread/suggestion.

Here's how I will deal the deathblow:

why are you content with the scraps when you could have the whole meal?

If the devs were actually going to make a change then why settle for a few more enhancements.

If you're going to bother with this suggestion then we should ask that enhancements are not "permanent."

If one so desires, they can slot an enhancement and 60 seconds later remove the enhancement because they've changed their mind or made a mistake.

You think by asking for just a little bit more this specific request is valid and justified.

Wrong.

Actually, if you really want a "QoL" change that doesn't alter any of the existing game rules, just "streamlines" the process of unslotting your character and keeping your IOs, here's something I'd like to see:

A "version" of respec that we can call "respec lite" (just to call it something). Performing it costs a respec, just like doing a full respec would, but:

1. A "respec lite" assumes you intend to keep exactly the same powers at exactly the same level you got them before, with exactly the same slotting.

2. It "starts" by opening up the "place enhancements" screen you see at the end of a full respec, but...

3. Unlike a full respec, it leaves your enhancement in their original slots. As is normal for the place enhancements screen, though, you can move slotted enhancements around (e.g. to your enhancement tray, the "still to place or they'll get sold" window below).

The benefit? It lets you manipulate your enhancements in exactly the same way going through the full respec process would. But it skips you having to rechoose powers and slots if all you are using the respec for is to move around enhancements - or free some up (or even "mass sell" a bunch of them).

Again, you can't do anything a normal respec wouldn't let you do (enhancement wise) - you still cannot "unslot and keep" more than 10. It'd still cost you six of your respecs to fully unslot your character at level 50. It just lets you do what you were planning on doing in a much faster, much less tedious way, with exactly the same "costs" as are currently in the game.

I know it's not gonna happen and all, but I have to add that in some cases you don't respec your toon just to make him better or suit your playstyle more, or because you feel like it.

I have a fully IO'ed ice/psi permadom. I was completely satisfied with the build, hey, maybe I'd change one thing or two like adding another purple set in case I made more money.

But... the devs COMPLETELY changed psi assault. And now I have to drastically change my build, like add other attacks. Not because I want to, because I need to.

It's a different case than 'I'll change my fire armor tanker from focusing on recharge to get a lot of defense' - that would also be a drastic change, but because the player wants to make his toon excel in another aspect.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying 'wah wah they nerfed PSW which I used to spam', I think the psi changes were positive for most players, especially for leveling (which was a pain with this dom till 38), but that in some cases the 10-enhancement limit is painful and not our fault that we have to use a lot of respecs to replace them, like when they drastically change a powerset for better or worse.

My DM/DA is another case, surely not as 'severe' as the ice/psi, but I'll have to respec out of shadow punch which was nerfed and killed the buzzsaw attack chain, slot siphon life for damage and heal now, etc.

And if I ever want to PvP with my IO'ed EM/Nin Stalker again, I'll have to IO a second build, she worked very well on PvE and PvP with the same build but now I'll have to gut her defenses (making her lame for PvE if I did that to the primary build), add 41 points of KB protection, change her patron to one that's kinda lame in PvE if I were to change her primary build...

I'm not whining nor expecting that exceptions will be made because it would be complicated to sort out who would 'deserve' a full IO respec, but just giving examples to show that this dev talk of 'Enhancements should be permanent' loses credibility when they change powersets forcing players to respec. I'm not against buffing or nerfing or any kind of change, I just think they contradict themselves.

I spent 1 billion and 2 respecs to revamp my Mind/Emp, that's okay, I wanted to change some things, try some powers I hadn't before, remove others I didn't use much. That was something I did with enthusiasm, I was improving and changing a toon to renew my interest on her.

But my head hurts just thinking about all the sales, respecs and possibly wasted IOs just to make my ice/psi have acceptable levels of performance for such an investment, since I spent 2 months after she hit 50 to get her to how she is now (and btw, I used to PvP with her on RV till i12, and now Ice Control is garbage there and psi is nothing special since sh relied on holds and slows which meh in post-i13 PvP, so not even 50 free respecs would make her viable the way she was in this scenario).

Lighten up, Francis.

LOL my favorite saying. Gave me a big chuckle.

You are absolutely right tymer.

I was out of line.

I will make a greater attempt to correct my behavior on the forums



I apologize to donna for my idiotic post.