Enhancement Purgatory:

I believe that this idea will solve a major QoL issue many have with this game. Let me explain:

I want the ability to send enhancements to a place where they are useless. And before you stop reading this and say "WHAT?!?", let me further this idea. This place, which I will call "Enhancement Purgatory", is free to use. Any enhancement can be put into it, and the place has an infinite storage space. Unfortunately, it will either be impossible to take enhancements out, or will cost money, depending on what best fits the developers taste.

What is the use of such a space? When respecing, I often find that I can do little with one respec. The 10 storage space maximum means I cannot fully slot the build and often have to say goodbye to many enhancements that are quite near to me, or make many respecs over time to get to the build I want. Instead, you would be able to use Purgatory Enhancements only when you respec, and could then slot whatever you want, and/or put the unused enhancements in Purgatory. In this way, respecing would become much less of a hassle for me and other players.

Why Purgatory, instead of just giving players infinite storage normally? Well, the developers of this game have made it clear, for good reasons, that players should not have an infinite amount of usable, hassle-free space. Purgatory is infinite, but it is finite in use and function. Players would not want to store all their enhancements in Purgatory because of the fee or inability to take enhancements out.

Finally, enhancements already in a build should be able to be put in "semi"-Purgatory status, where the are used until a respec, then pulled into Purgatory when a respec occurs. In this way, players could pull wanted enhancements from one build to another without using multiple respecs.

I believe that this idea would be a great improvement in player QoL without stepping over bounds the developers have made in storage. Please sign on if you agree, and hopefully a dev will consider it as "A Good Idea" endquote.

/unsigned

The limit of pulling 10 enhancements off of a build has never had anything to do with storage space. Enhancements are supposed to be permanent once slotted, and when the devs added the respec feature in Issue 2 they flat out told us that they were being extremely generous when they decided to let us pull 10 enhancements off of a respecced build.

That was back when earning influence was a PITA and respeccing a build could literally leave a character broke and struggling with empty slots if the player didn't have the foresight to have a couple of million set aside in advance. Now that we have the ability to make hundreds of millions hand over fist it's even more unlikely the devs will change their minds.

While I thank you both for responding quickly and with commentary, I do not think it is quite as simple as you put it.

First, I DO plan my builds in mids. I have over 100 of them, in fact. I started a thread on the scrapper forum called "The Build Thread." I'm not asking this because I'm not a planner, I asking this because the current respec system is outdated in the age of IOs and we need to change the system for the use of the players.

First, enhancements are not as simple as they were when respecs came out in I2. Instead, a build can literally have 10 or less enhancements that are the same. Going from one build to another with freespec (given out when changes are made, sometimes extreme), is nearly impossible with the current system in one respec. This makes it hard for that QoL part of the game to function correctly.

Indeed, if I wanted to switch from a build with SOs, to basc IOs, to set IOs frankenslotted, to set IOs and uniques, to purples, to PvP IOs, I am going to be looking at 20-30 respecs, minimum. It shouldn't be necessary to respec multiple times to change a build, either from a change to the game or to increase the power of the build. We should't have to plan our respecs in stages (which I do, by the way) in order to make sure we don't destroy vital enhancements.

This system also works with, not against the devs. The area I call "Purgatory" is un-useable space. It still keeps the basic idea of enhancements (permanent once slotted), but makes it much easier for the player base. These enhancements are still permanently away from the rest of the game. Note, that part of the use of this area is simply a spot to put enhancements to prior to respecing, so you can change more than 10 at a time without deleting. Your cannot sell these enhancements, or put them in a build unless you are respecing. It doesn't break the game, or break the devs "rules."

((I meant nothing in the following post as a personal attack, merely as an extra-explanation of my idea))

I'm gonna go ahead and be rude and hostile, and unapologetic.

Screw what the devs think ought to be right. I hate respeccing. So much so that I'd sooner roll a new toon than deal with the lack of functionality in the respec system. Redo the whole thing and make it easier for idiot players like me (which make up sizable portion of the player base, the ones that are here to have fun and be free of planning and stress) I don't want to use an outside program not supported by Paragon studios to fine tune my build.

All the functionality that the respec provides allows you to say "oops screwed up that one power slotting" maybe two. But it can't even do that one reslot right because you have to rebuild everything from scratch. What if my toon is 5 years old and I don't remember what slots I added at level 5. The system knows what it is because when i go to oro it takes everything away that i didn't have at level 5. But the system is incapable of telling me.

I don't know if I like your idea OP butIi know SOMETHING needs to be done. And I'm the customer, I'm right.