Diablo General Manager Rod Fergusson had some reassuring words for Diablo 4 (opens in new tab) players who are worried that they won't be able to respec their characters because the cost is too high.

A respec is when you reassign a character's skill or ability points because a new meta comes along, you want to try something different, or you get bored. in a game like Diablo 4, where character building is central to the experience, many players enjoy being able to experiment I enjoy it: for example, I created a Barbarian in the Diablo 4 beta who liked to hit people in the head with a giant hammer. (3]

Respeccing is free in the early game of Diablo 4, but as your character levels up, so does the cost paid in in-game gold. In the Diablo 4 beta, players were limited to 25 levels, so it was impossible to see how high the higher levels We were unable to confirm how much it would be, but in a November 2022 interview with IGN (opens in new tab), Ferguson said that some players might decide to create an entirely new character rather than re-create their current one.

"I would love to be another barbarian, but it would cost too much money to redo everything I have done. It's better to roll another barbarian, start a new barbarian, and start fresh," Ferguson said.

"And I wanted the idea that as you level up a character, your attachment to that character grows and becomes more entrenched."

But not everyone was enamored with the prospect of having to start over in order to play with higher-level builds; HackTimhack91 quipped on Twitter: "We're all getting older and can redistribute skill points more easily. I really don't want to have to re-create characters (huge waste of time) instead of being able to redistribute skill points more easily," they wrote.

In response to this tweet, Ferguson suggested that Blizzard was not going to be as hardline about re-creating high-level Diablo 4 characters as he had initially indicated. He tweeted (opens in new tab), "It's not outrageously expensive, and we've made it easier by allowing you to pay back a single skill point or an entire tree at once."

This has brought a mix of relief and continued bewilderment to the Diablo 4 subreddit (opens in new tab)." hs_serpounce writes, "I think this is a good step, but I would like to see the cost be negligible so that people don't have a traditional RPG-like build and have all skills at their disposal whenever they want in any situation.

Redditor khrucible replied, "It's not outrageously expensive, it's just expensive," and added, "That [IGN interview] quote was taken out of context and parroted like you have to restart if you make a mistake, which was completely wrong from the beginning. It was wrong from the beginning," he added.

Elendel19 agreed with khrucible's comment, "It's not that you can't change builds, it's that you can't change builds five times a day to minimize what you're doing at any given moment. if you want a soak optimized for both pve and pvp, you have two You will want to build a character."

"I don't think anyone expected to have to literally restart," said redditor simplytatered, "at some point, you'll spend more time farming money to respec than simply leveling up a new character. You're going to spend a lot of time. That sucks and seems like a meaningless restriction. "

Of course, Ferguson's statement is ambiguous, and "outrageous" is entirely subjective: beta testers estimate that it will cost more than 12 million gold to fully respect, and Elendel19 estimates it will be earned in a day or two. June 6. We won't know what will happen until Diablo 4 launches, but at least for now, avid fans can take some comfort in knowing that Blizzard isn't going to be too hard on them.