Despite the somewhat dramatic title, I am actually a big fan of TOS and am mostly happy with what IMC has done (trading debacle aside). Compared to other MMO’s on the market, TOS has striking build/class diversity and no one sane could accuse TOS of lacking distinction between classes. Given however the incredible number of builds possible within the framework of a class, it is complete lunacy to only be able to respec your skill selections at this time. This puts a HUGE onus on the player to pick a single build and follow it rigorously, severely penalizing experimentation and potentially forcing a reroll. When this game goes F2P and sees a huge influx of newer players, you risk pissing a lot of them off when they realize they may have made some sub-optimal stats/class choices and are locked in by a draconian system. I really don’t care if its gated behind the cash shop, but class and status point resets simply NEED to be in the game. It is too unforgiving (and frankly, too unfun to the average player) to box people in and and offer “lol, reroll” as the only solution. This is not a huge ask: respeccing is a fundamental, vital convenience that Western players expect from their MMOs.
No thanks. Let the whiny people get frustrated and leave. The smarter, patient players are fine with it.
It’s been brought up a lot… Most reasonible idea I’ve heard is a respec that sets you back one rank and with a high cost in time and silver.
Honestly though… I’m not so sure I even agree with that though. Game with this kind of class system you’re kind of expected to make alts. It’s about setting up cool party compositions. And everytime a new wave of classes get released it’s going to shake things up. And everyone should want to make new characters to work with the new builds. I think the team level system is a good compromise for speeding up alt progression. And maybe worth expanding on more…
But I mean in a few weeks or so… Everyones going to have loads of cash and when they goto level… The’ill have pardoner buffs that let them one shot everything till 100+ pretty much regardless of build. And have the money to make something stupid like a +10 Lv 15 weapon.
The only thing I might ask is to be able to revert character to lvl 1/1 so that you won’t have to go through all that adventure journal discovery and stuff when some balance patch or new ranks come and your favorite character you invested so much time in becomes semi-useless…