Total Respec

Old thought finally asking about it.

Played this for many years but my previous MMORPG experience was Star Wars Galaxies. Its crap I know but when you did a respec on it your could completely rebuild your character. Like if you were a Bounty Hunter you could change out all your skills and be a Merchant or Cook or whatever.

So when I got my first respec on this game long time ago, I was surprised that I couldn't change my Primary and Secondary Sets. What I mean by is being a MA and switching to Katana as my primary.

Has there ever been a discussion on why this route wasn't ever taken? Not sure how it could hurt the game if it was possible.

O dear lords of Kobol. Can they please do something to the forums to make it auto-check for this question and just make it impossible to post? Please? Or something?

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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha ...I have the patience of a coffee-fueled flea...

There are many, many reasons why the devs are unlikely to implement this sort of thing however I will limit myself to just giving you the response Positron gave when asked about it in the last Q&A.

I got an answer from a helpful human being so I don't care.

There are tons of reasons.

Posi's answer sums up one of them in inarguable terms, since it came from the head honcho himself.

Exploitability is another reason.

Super Reflexes and Shield Defense scrappers get really really powerful at high levels when they have all their powers, but both are kind of squishy while you're getting them there. If full respecs were allowed you could level up as a Katana/Willpower scrapper (which is a much easier character to play at low levels) and then switch over when you get to a level the set you want gets powerful at. Or level a Willpower tank and switch over to Stone so you can have Granite Armor without having to play the set through 32 levels of relative squishiness (for a tank at least).

A third reason: Just because you know how to play a scrapper at level 50 doesn't mean you automatically know how to play a corruptor at 50. It would create a lot of players with very little idea how to play their character, because they respecced into a different AT at 50 that they have little or no experience with. Even within ATs you'd have problems, an Ice Tank doesn't play like a Dark Armor tank. Just because you've played one does not mean you know how the other works, because you haven't spent the time learning it.

BACK! Get back in your crypt you evil, rotting equine!

Suriel, please put down the bat, you'll only make it angry!


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First, Ultimo makes ANOTHER rant about the "need" to buff xyz regardless of his poor build choices.

Second, we get ANOTHER thread about how "unfair" vet rewards are.

Now, we get ANOTHER thread about respec'ing into new primaries/secondaries?

I've always been irritated by people who say "search next time", but seriously...search next time. Ugh. I said it. I feel dirty now. This...this makes me very sad.

I'm saving that picture. That's freaking awesome.

Yeah, it is. Sadly, I can't claim credit for that one, but hey, I'm a Villain. Whatcha gonna do?

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