i didn't see this question before so i'll answer it now. No, i won't. i'll likely choose something, use it for a while, decide that it's not for me then try out a modified version or another skill. to be honest, i was thinking respecing would have been a perfect gold sink. they can even make it based on level... the value of gold as a currency will only be valuable if there are valuable gold sinks that will pull gold out of the market hopefully in a progressive way. (something like higher level respecs cost more, higher level runes cost more to remove etc. so that the newer people aren't forced to spend too much of whatever small amounts of gold they may have acquired.) and right now i'm seriously wondering if they even plan on making gold a valuable currency, now that gold has to compete with the real world currency.
If you don't plan on respeccing willy-nilly, why is there a big assumption that a lot of other people will?
Also, I think that people will find the merchants to serve as very viable gold sinks. Of course, who knows? They might wear out their usefulness in the late game. But they have a lot more potential than Blizzard has let on, I think, and I find it extremely likely that making skills a gold sink, while perhaps viable in a gameplay sort of way, would have just felt out of place. It wouldn't have contributed to the feel or personality of the game. It doesn't logically follow that money can influence your talents, and I think that on a very back-of-the-mind level, that would have bothered the players who want to feel immersed in Sanctuary.
I won't miss the tradition of playing a cookie-cutter build. Being able to use all skills available to your class at all times with just about the same amount of power, although with some major differences thanks to the runes, will make the game more interesting.
No, you fail to realize that cookie cutter builds will exist regardless, as long as skills are imbalanced.
Less choice is never better. We should have been given the option to use 4 or 7 skills (4, assuming that max skill cap was 15)
All the new skill system does is give us "infinite" re-spec at whim, without the real choice of choosing which skills to focus on. Instead it's like... here is your generic char, now go test whatever!
then again, i realize that by doing thing they probably would decrease server costs...it now makes sense that an account has max 10 chars! if we had a choice to make something like "an ice wizard" then "a melee wizard" etc etc... there would be more justification for having increase char per account, perhaps some "unreachable number"
Out of curiosity, are you going to respec on a whim since you can?
First off, just to set the mood, I love the new skill system.
A couple of points I would like to touch on... If you think you will ever even meet another player with the same setup as you in the skill department, I think you're underestimating how many combinations of 6 you can make out of 24 elements (especially when there are 7 versions of each of those 24 moves.) Yes, EVENTUALLY, people will adhere to something that works well that others are doing. But now, more than ever, people can viably deviate in huge ways, unlike in D2.
Second, let me just share a brief story. I played Diablo 2 for the first time many years ago. I started a necromancer, because I loved the idea. I looked at his skill tree and saw a path devoted to skeletons. I was more excited about a video game in that moment then I ever had been before. I'm here to tell you that I loved Diablo 2, but I never truly forgave it for the sin of promising me skeletons, but not allowing me to beat even normal difficulty with it. NO. I don't want to get Iron Maiden. NO. I don't want to max out resurrects. I want skeletons. And if you think I got over the idea of not being able to play the way I wanted to play when logic dictated by looking at the skill tree that I should have been able to, you're dead wrong. Now in Diablo 3, you'll see Witchdoctors with Mongrels in the lategame often (I assume, because who really knows?), because now skills scale properly. If you never had your initial game plan crushed by the horrors of the D2 skill trees, you will never understand why Blizzard did the right thing with this new update until you accept the reality that people deserve to play the way they want to play if a game is going to present them with options that it claims are all viable.
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If you don't plan on respeccing willy-nilly, why is there a big assumption that a lot of other people will?
Also, I think that people will find the merchants to serve as very viable gold sinks. Of course, who knows? They might wear out their usefulness in the late game. But they have a lot more potential than Blizzard has let on, I think, and I find it extremely likely that making skills a gold sink, while perhaps viable in a gameplay sort of way, would have just felt out of place. It wouldn't have contributed to the feel or personality of the game. It doesn't logically follow that money can influence your talents, and I think that on a very back-of-the-mind level, that would have bothered the players who want to feel immersed in Sanctuary.
Out of curiosity, are you going to respec on a whim since you can?
A couple of points I would like to touch on... If you think you will ever even meet another player with the same setup as you in the skill department, I think you're underestimating how many combinations of 6 you can make out of 24 elements (especially when there are 7 versions of each of those 24 moves.) Yes, EVENTUALLY, people will adhere to something that works well that others are doing. But now, more than ever, people can viably deviate in huge ways, unlike in D2.
Second, let me just share a brief story. I played Diablo 2 for the first time many years ago. I started a necromancer, because I loved the idea. I looked at his skill tree and saw a path devoted to skeletons. I was more excited about a video game in that moment then I ever had been before. I'm here to tell you that I loved Diablo 2, but I never truly forgave it for the sin of promising me skeletons, but not allowing me to beat even normal difficulty with it. NO. I don't want to get Iron Maiden. NO. I don't want to max out resurrects. I want skeletons. And if you think I got over the idea of not being able to play the way I wanted to play when logic dictated by looking at the skill tree that I should have been able to, you're dead wrong. Now in Diablo 3, you'll see Witchdoctors with Mongrels in the lategame often (I assume, because who really knows?), because now skills scale properly. If you never had your initial game plan crushed by the horrors of the D2 skill trees, you will never understand why Blizzard did the right thing with this new update until you accept the reality that people deserve to play the way they want to play if a game is going to present them with options that it claims are all viable.