Time for a new respec interface !!

This is something I would like to see from the Dev's. I would love respecs to take less time and I think a new interface would be key. Oftentimes I am doing a total respec to often move a few slots around, which I dont have an issue doing but just looking at issue 19 and having over 40+ characters to respec and I know others will have a lot more than that.

I would also like to see the enhacement tray increased from ten. This is just ridiculous. In this day of IO's I have often had to burn several respecs to take IO's off one character to invest in another character. There should be a way that these can be deposited in the auction house or in your base or vault from the respec interface.

Also since one of the earlier updates the numbers on the enhancements got really really really small. This needs to be fixed.

Just some thoughts as I prepare to start the huge number of respecs I will start when I get home.

Castle mentioned back in the GR beta that a respec renovation was something they were looking into, but that wasn't currently in any particular schedule.

I seriously doubt they're going to increase the amount of "free" enhancement storage, though (free in the sense that you now have 10 slots that can be rearranged, traded and sold from).

I certainly agree that the interface for respeccing needs to be made a lot more user-friendly, though. It's very clunky as it is now.

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Originally Posted by Nethergoat it's NEVER too late to pad your /ignore list!

I also want a easier respec option! To many times I've wanted to change just the last power I chose only because it wasn't what I wanted, needed or I found some one elses spec I liked better.

No as a 78 month vet I have LOTS of free respecs. Thats never an issue. The issue isnt that I need MORE respecs. Most of my toons have at least three or more from Vet Awards and thats not counting some that still have freespecs and MANY have never run a respec mission.

I use Mids whenever I build a toon so normally I am doing pretty well as far as builds go.

My issue is that the interface needs to be made a little simpler. hopefully taking less time and I do have an issue when one desires to move lets say two full sets of some IO's off one toon to another toon. That would requite TWELVE slots and we only have ten. I cant tell you how many times I have had to respec a toon TWICE to move just TWO IO's or Hami-O's off from one toon to another. I could understand this back in the day when it was just SO's and you could sell them and get a large portion of what you invest BACK in terms of influence.

However in the todays world with IO's which often are slotted 5-6 deep to get full advantage of a set, I dont think its outside of the realm of reason to ask for 12-15 spaces for enhancements in the respec window to facilitate moving IO's and Hami-O's

The OP ( me ) has already dealt with doing multiple respecs and believe me I have LOTS of respecs available on my creations so if I need to burn an extra one I can. I think they could easily add 2-5 slots to make it EASIER and less likely to need to burn extra respecs and I dont think that is game breaking.

However my MAIN issue is that the interface is slow and time consuming. I am already looking at respecing 40+ toons and I know of people that have literally 100+.

I'll give one example. The Power Tray. Every time I respec I have to write down the order of all the powers in my tray. There SHOULD be a way that can be saved. Also every times I respec the FIRST thing added back into the power tray is all this crap like "walk" and the fire extiguisher power I have left over from 5 years ago and crap like that. Thats just one example.

When I get home I am going to see how many I can do before I got to bed. Now I have ALL of them done in Mid's AND I have every slot figured out and ALL the changes I am going to make. I figured them out WEEKS ago. I have gotten pretty good a blazing through a respec and I STILL think the interface could be updated and made smoother.

I am VERY glad to hear they fixed the itty bitty number thing.

They gave us freespecs when GR went live, so we had plenty of time to go thru our characters (just like I did with the 80+ characters I have on just my main account) to get them ready for when Fitness went inherent. Procrastination is not an excuse.

Change the way respecs work to make them easier to do: Yes

Increase number of enhancenemts we can keep at a time: No

I could have gone more in depth in my response, but I don't feel like typing for a half hour to get my point across, so I apologize if it seems dismissive.

I know that I for one would like to have access to chat while doing a respec.

They can take time, but that isn't always because of the interface. If I'm totally retooling a toon, I have to take time to rethink the enhancement placement. During this time there are often people trying to chat with me; or it might be me wishing to ask another player I know for their input regarding my respec process.

I just wish that we didn't have to isolate ourselves from the whole community while we are doing respecs.

I was able to burn through about six respecs last night, but again I had them all planned out.

I did have to burn two respecs on one toon to remove everything I wanted to transfer off.

See for me the enhancement " locked " argument doesnt work because the respec unlocks everything anyway.

However this is a small point and doesnt affect me that often.

I would LOVE an easier interface. And I agree I woud LOVE to be able to have a chat window while respecing.

I'm in total agreement with the OP and love the idea of having a chat window while I respec. Don't know why Forbin_Project is being absolutely inflexible on the subject but am very thankful it's not his call.