Respec shoud be free

Agreed. They just bricked every single cast-on build

yeah latest nerfs just show that this is needed asap.

I feel like lowering the cost would inevitably make basically free at some point. In my opinion lowering the cost a little bit, adding refund points during campaign and adding some cool way to earn these points in end game should be the solution.

This way you can either farm gold or do some fun content for refund points. I also strongly feel that you should have some grace period or some testing area where you can test your new build. I would like to see people be able to come up with hypothesis, test it and then commit to it without being punished too harshly.

Loop would look something like

Hypothesis about a change in a build -> farm enjoyable content for refund (reasonable timeframe) -> test your hypothesis (maybe pay a rent for limited time test area) -> Commit to your new build

+1 respect should be free.

yes just make it fully free. the game would be so much more fun!

+1 absolutely no reason for it not to be free

Punishing players with extreme respec costs reduces creativity and experimentation and just pushes everyone to use build guides so they don't end up with bricked builds.

Not free, but lowering would be the right call, to a fixated amount per level.

1k per point would be just fine. A level 70 build full respec would be 86k anyway. (70 points from leveling + 16 from sidecontent), which is already a hefty amount, but you can already calculate how much you need to farm, and see if it is profitable to you taking that risk or not.

I didn't have many issues respeccing so far and I've modified my build about 6 times now (Invoker 63 here), but I definitely can see why that would be a nuisance in the long run.

No matter the nerfs or buffs, I can't really see a reason for respects not to be accessible in an EA state. Wouldn't more respects equal more things being tested?

I think it should be free or way cheaper at least during early access, because updates are going to mess with builds drastically and often. I don't have an issue with there being a cost once numbers and mechanics are more or less set in place and we have a better idea of what to expect.

Please! Blood mage here, started a ED/Contagion build where I planned to use Hexblast for crit and big damage. Thought it was bugged because it only exploded one curse on bosses. So, I was going to switch to something else until it got fixed. Then, switched to cold COC and COF a few hours before the nerfs hit. So now both versions of the builds I wanted to play aren't going to work. Don't have enough gold for a complete change.

Please give us a full respec and ascendancy respec options!