Partial respec or "unlevelling"
I'm not in favor of this recommendation. Why? It only partially addresses the issue at hand. That issue being that the respec system is the worst it could be. What we need is an intelligent respec system, not this aged frayed bandaid.
Arc ID#30821, A Clean Break
The only problem with defeating the Tsoo is that an hour later, you want to defeat them again!
"Life is just better boosted!" -- LadyMage
"I'm a big believer in Personal Force Field on a blaster. ... It's your happy place." -- Fulmens
At this point, almost anything to ease the annoyance of the current implementation (especially if it helps facilitate minor build changes) would be better than nothing at all.
I think the annoyance factor of the current respect implementation is inversely proportional to the scale of the desired changes to be made to the character build.
It probably doesn't really bother some people that much, they may be used to doing respecs numerous times on numerous characters. But for me, the sheer tedium of doing it under the current system is really a disincentive to making any changes at all, especially relatively minor changes.
Tweaking a build in Mid's can be fun -- unfortunately, I can't say the same for actually doing it in-game.
And while they are at it fix so it doesnt screw up our power trays by putting ever damned temp power and what not into the slots. I chringe evertime i need to respec a toon for this reason.
It strips ALL the powers out of your trays and lets you drag things to where you want them, instead of playing Tetris with your powers.
See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately.