5000 Favor and skill respec

[Viragon]

I have given the Skill respec a lot of thought and I belive I have come up with a solution. At 5000 favor you should be allowed to rebuild your character from the ground up. Since this would be a reward and not a system available to everyone the normal problems with skill respec could be ignored. here is the way I see it.

1. rebuild at 32 points for abilities (Ability to change alignment could be here as well)
2. Add what ever tomes have been read to the stats.
3. Rebuild each class level as you see fit basicly releveling.

This would solve several complaints about alignment, 1750 favor for 28 point builds, skill respec, and multiclassing. The first complaint I see to this plan is that you will wind up with more skill points than you could of had because of tomes and changeing ability scores. But thats the point. It is a reward. I envision this as a 6 million dollar man type reward. We can rebuild him. Make him stronger, faster, more skilled than ordinary characters. This is the kind of grand reward I expect from 5000 favor and this would solve a lot of problems that people have with their head start characters.

Jost a thought Let me know what you think.

[Aeneas]

You do realize that 5000 favor is like 150 new quests away right?

[Viragon]

Maybe and maybe not it is a little less than twice the aviable favor now in game but favor also increases on each quest as the level of the quest goes up. 10 quests with 100 favor would put us at 3700. it all depends on the devs to be honest. It could be lowered to a 3000 favor reward or 4000 favor reward. or the next raid could gives us a lot of favor at once. Lets say the lvl 20 raid in mod 9 could give us 500 toatal favor alone. Its just hard to predict.

[Wulf_Ratbane]

Don't you think it's faster to reroll than to grind another 3000 favor?

[EazyWeazy]

Don't you think it's faster to reroll than to grind another 3000 favor?

Unlock it for an account and you only have to do it once, LOL.

[Wulf_Ratbane]

Unlock it for an account and you only have to do it once, LOL.

Huh, LOL?

[EazyWeazy]

Huh, LOL?

Hehe... I was joking that this could be something that is 'account based' vs. 'character based'. You get one character to grind the favor then you can reroll all your guys. Way over the top and not something I see happening, but I can dream.

They key being that it would be faster to grind 3000 on ONE character than all 9 characters.

[Dariuss]

yeah but if they did do this, the technology would be there for full respecs, and every time a feat, skill, enhancement, got changed, and any time a new enemy is introduced, every time a new class comes out, every time the level cap goes up, the boards will be flooded with demands of being given a respec token.

[Sue_Dark]

Dariuss - they already are. since the advent of feat respec.

Personally, I dont see what is stopping them from introducing a skill respec option. Thru a means similar to feat respec. Heck, new content comes out and we can alter our feats and enhancements to accomidate the content now. Why not allow for similar activity with skills? Dont tell me its too powerful, cause its no stronger than feats/enhancements being redone (actually less so then feats, imo).

Would I use the skill respec, i dont know. Would I like it available, sure... why not. I put planning into my characters, but have deleted several because of drunken level ups, where I thought I was putting skill in one and wrongly put it in another. 1-2 points might not be an issue, but at early levels zooming from 1-5 in a night, to quote a dear guildmate... "You're screeeeeewewedd"

Wake up the next day, got a 6 swim and a 4 intim on an intim tank, cause my drunk dummy self put em in the wrong place... and they are NOT EVEN CLOSE TOGETHER!! gah....

[Shagn]

/not signed
5000 favor? lol, ****. maybe by the year 2020.
The reason we want respecs is because of the changes/upgrades/nerfs that Turbine makes to core game rules. All it will take is one mod and that 5000 one time favor idea is out the window. One example is the proposed change to Paladins that finally uses their charisma to do something more than just + saves and an exceptionally weak LoH.

Think if the only time you could have changed out a feat was your 1750 favor... or one-time spell swap for sorcs/bards? no thanks. The game is in constant flux and it is nice to be able to adapt.

One thing that could be done for skill respecs is to not count the inherent bonus. Either that or just let the people who were lucky enough to earn a +2 int tome to actually get the extra skills. It wouldn't be unbalancing nor game breaking.

[Viragon]

I think the inclusion of the skill respec system as a reward for an acount like 32 point favor is a fine adendum to my idea. The favor reward system is there to reward the players who complete it with abilities above and beyond what other characters have. 5000 favor may be a long way off or it may not be. We will soon be moving into the realm of epic adventureing where the favor we may gian will come from more that just powerful creatures of ebberon but from the gods themselves. The numerical formula for how favor is currently calculated may drasticly change at that level and even if it does not We are already half way there so its safe to say in 3 years we may be there 2012 not 2020. But that is moot it does not have to be 5000 favor that gives us the reward, I see that as the lowhanging fruit to grasp. it could be a favor rward for a new group or even an addition to an existing one (we are very close to 400 phiarlain favor).