Diablo General Manager Rod Ferguson had some encouraging words about Diablo 4. (opens in new tab) Players are concerned that they can’t reconfigure their characters because the cost is too high: it won’t happen.
Respecting is reassigning a character’s skill or ability points because they have a new meta, want to try something different, or just got bored. In games like Diablo 4, where character building is central to the experience, many players enjoy the ability to experiment. In his second weekend in the beta, I switched him to sword wielder. (But I didn’t really like it, so I changed it back.)
In the early games of Diablo 4, respeccing is free, but as your character levels up, so does the cost, which is paid for in-game gold.In the Diablo 4 beta, players were limited to level 25, so it was impossible to predict how expensive it would be at higher levels, but in an interview in November 2022, IGN (opens in new tab)Ferguson said some players may decide that creating an entirely new character is better than redoing their current character.
“Oh, there will come a time when I want to be another barbarian, but that would be too expensive to undo all that I’ve done. Actually, roll another barbarian and start Better… get a new one and keep it fresh,” Ferguson said. “And I wanted the concept that each level of the character made me feel more and more attached to it and more and more settled.”
That said, not everyone is enamored with the possibility of having to start over to try a higher level build. HackTimhack91 gets to the point on his Twitter.
In response to that tweet, Ferguson hinted that Blizzard isn’t as strict about respecting Diablo 4’s high-level characters as he initially indicated. , making it easier by letting you redeem a single skill point or an entire tree at once,” he says. murmured (opens in new tab).
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It brought a mixture of relief and continued amazement. diablo 4 subreddit (opens in new tab)“It’s a good step, but I hope they don’t make the cost negligible. In fact, it feels like people have a traditional RPG-like build, and people like it all the time in every situation.” It’s not just about having all your skills at your disposal when you need them,” writes hs_serpounce.
Redditor khrucible replied, “It wasn’t prohibitively expensive, it was just expensive.” [IGN interview] The quote was very out of context and parroted back as if if I made a mistake that was completely wrong the first time, I would have to start over. ”
Elendel19 agreed with khrucible’s comment, saying, “It’s not that you can’t change your build. You can’t just change your build five times a day and go from min to max on the exact content you’re doing at that moment. Soak optimized for both pve and pvp, and you’ll want to make two characters.”
“Don’t think anyone really thought you needed to literally reboot, rather I think you basically needed to reboot,” wrote the redditor simpletated. “The communication was that at some point you would spend more time earning money for respect than just leveling new characters, and after that point the latter was better. .limit.”
Of course, Ferguson’s statement is vague and “banned” is entirely subjective. Beta His testers estimate that it would cost him over 12 million gold to pay full respect. Of grinding much harder than I would like to do. We won’t know how it will perform until Diablo 4 releases on June 6th, but for now at least die-hard fans know Blizzard isn’t aiming to take them too seriously. Knowing this can give you some peace of mind.
