I take it back...I LOVE respecing my toons

I have complained privately and here that I wasn't that thrilled with respecing because of the inherent fitness without new slots. I take it all back. I have respec-ed many toons this weekend and had no issues. My Fire/Rad Troller will be SO MUCH stronger. All this without considering Alpha Slotting. Thanks Devs!

I like this one better than the other one.

I still find it bothersome.

The results are good, the process is bad.

I'm not saying I don't appreciate having the ability to respec, because I do. I remember when the only way to fix a borked build was to delete and re-roll your character (which is how I lost two good names back in the day), so having the ability to respec is awesome. But I have so many characters at upper levels that it's hard to find the process enjoyable.

I have over 100 characters, that will at some point, all be respecced. I basically respec each one as i log in, I dont try to do it all at once i'd go mad. Its a technique that has worked well for me and made the whole thing pretty painless and transparent.

99% of the time I'll have a mids build already planned post i19 for the specific character (loved the early patch for that btw!)

The only thing I find troublesome on respec's is room for enhancements. I did a major revamp on my shield/elec/body tanker, that is now Shield/elec/mu .With this came 4 sets I no longer needed and had to respec 3 times just to get all the Enhancements off to other characters. No way im just erasing Obliterations, Touch of deaths, Numina's etc.

This has been the only character to have this hassle though as it was such a major change, the rest of the ones i've done so far have simply reused 99% of the Enhancements they already had.

I spent the first couple of days respecing my characters into proposed Mids builds.

I'm very slowly going back into said characters and filling in empty spots, redoing enhancements, and actually testing out said builds. I've spent far too much money on these characters, but i'm really liking the end results i've found.

I Have a lot of chars as well and I remember spending nearly a full day respeccing toons (nearly because I fell alseep in my arms doing it lol). The bit I hate most is having to redo my trays But, pretty much all my builds are better for having the extra powers so yea, lovin the new inherent fitness

I hate respeccing my toons. The mechanism in place is the worst it could possibly be without intentionally sabotaging it to make it harder. Regardless of the smallest changes you want to make, you're forced to make every single decision you've ever made, and redo every leveling action you've ever done. IOs make it even harder. You used to be able to just look and see that you had acc/acc/dam/dam/end/rech in a power and then slot it. A simple screen shot let you at least figure out which enhancements went into which slots. But all the IOs for any set look the same, and you can have the same set spread across multiple powers. One can have three of a set, another five of the same set, and there's no way to tell with a screenshot if that IO is acc/dam or dam/end. If they're all the same level, you have to go through your power screen and write down each item so you can replicate it.

I've got two full screens of characters. It'll take days just to respec all of them. When respecs were put in waaaaaay back when, it was great because at least we finally had them. But many years later, respecs are used so often that the devs give them out left and right, there's even recipes for them, yet the mechanism hasn't changed at all. It's the most basic, simple, brain-dead mechanism that it could be, and after all this time, we should have something better.

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yeah, I know I'm venting. I just hate doing respecs THAT much!

Yea I have no complaints at all. Though I REALLY liked someones suggestion getting 5 slots at level 50 (so you could six slot the last power) and would also give two more slots overall to help in the new slot crunch with inherent fitness. Im fine without but would jump for joy if they did it.