Recieved free respec- Why?


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Hello,

My villain recently reached level 20, but I may have received the respec at level 19. I've been looking into them a bit, and none of the reasons for getting them seem to coincide with something I did.


I'm just asking why this may be out of curiosity, I'm actually happy with my powers/enhancements as they are, and when I looked at the respec screen I didn't notice any new options anyways (not that I looked very hard.)

But anyways, if anyone can explain this to me it'd be great. Thanks for your help.


 

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Originally Posted by TwoHeadedBoy View Post
Hello,

My villain recently reached level 20, but I may have received the respec at level 19. I've been looking into them a bit, and none of the reasons for getting them seem to coincide with something I did.


I'm just asking why this may be out of curiosity, I'm actually happy with my powers/enhancements as they are, and when I looked at the respec screen I didn't notice any new options anyways (not that I looked very hard.)

But anyways, if anyone can explain this to me it'd be great. Thanks for your help.
It might have something to with this announcement: Issue 19 Respec Tokens

While freespecs don't stack you don't have to use them until/unless you want to.


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Oh jeez, I guess I didn't look carefully enough before posting. Sorry about that, thanks for sending me in the right direction.


 

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It's because you were a good $PRONOUN this year!


 

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Did they hand out a 3rd respec?
Yep. Last week.



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It's because you were a good $PRONOUN this year!
Excellent. I've always wanted to be a pronoun.


 

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It's because you were a good $PRONOUN this year!
Incorrect syntax.

You wanted $boygirl


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Originally Posted by TwoHeadedBoy View Post

But anyways, if anyone can explain this to me it'd be great. Thanks for your help.
Well, if you just started playing within the last couple weeks, you wouldn't know this.

With the release of Issue 19 a power pool that probably 95-98% of the characters in the entire game had was made into an inherent ability. Since this affected such a huge proportion of the characters they handed out free respecs for people to use to take advantage of the new feature. (Since you had to respec in order to get it as an inherent)

Since we could have 2 builds they handed out one, and then another a week later. Well, now we can have 3 builds (another feature of the new issue), so they somewhat unexpectedly gave us a THIRD respec. That's probably the one you noticed you had.

Any time the developers change anything about how powers work in an issue they pass out free respecs with it. And everyone gets one, whether the change affects them or not, because it wouldn't be fair to just hand them out to characters affected by the change (and it's a lot easier to just give one to everyone than to try to give them only to characters with specific powersets)


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