Diablo 4 boss has reassuring words for buildcrafters: Respeccing won't be 'prohibitively expensive'

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Diablo general manager Rod Fergusson had some reassuring words for Diablo 4(opens in new tab) players concerned that they won't be able to respec their characters because the cost will be too high: It won't be.

Respeccing is simply the act of reassigning your character's skill or ability points because there's a new meta, or you want to try something different, or you just got bored. In games like Diablo 4, where character builds are central to the experience, a lot of players enjoy being able to experiment: I, for instance, made a barbarian in the Diablo 4 beta who liked to bash heads with a huge hammer; in the second beta weekend, I switched him up to a sword-swinger. (I didn't like that nearly as much, though, so I switched back.)

In Diablo 4's early game, respeccing is free, but as your character's level rises, so does the cost, paid with in-game gold. The Diablo 4 beta capped players at level 25 so it was impossible to see just how expensive it might get at high levels, but in a November 2022 interview with IGN(opens in new tab), Fergusson said some players might decide it's better to just create a whole new character than redo their current one.

«There's going to be a point in time where you go, like, oh, I'd like to be a different barbarian, but it's too expensive to undo everything I've done. It's actually better for me to roll another barbarian and start a new one, and go fresh,» Fergusson said. «And we wanted that, that notion that with each level you progress down a character, you're becoming more and more attached to it, and getting more and more settled with it.»

Not everyone was enamored with the prospect of having to start over in order in order to play around with high-level builds, though, particularly