Dropping gold prices for respec

KimberlyannKitsuragi · September 2016

Can there be a decrease in prices? Right now if I want to respec skills, attributes and CP I have to shell out close to 10,000 gold roughly (sorry don't have the exact value off the top of my head) That's insane to me. I suppose it's my own fault for not having a plan in mind for my character but it would be nice to see a decrease in price because currently it's insane and I don't have the gold for it lol

Bandit1215 · September 2016

I'm pretty sure when the patch releases it will go down to 1 gold like the last patch. If you can wait on the respec, hold off for a bit and save a lot of money

UltimaJoe777 · September 2016

Meri20098 wrote: »

Can there be a decrease in prices? Right now if I want to respec skills, attributes and CP I have to shell out close to 10,000 gold roughly (sorry don't have the exact value off the top of my head) That's insane to me. I suppose it's my own fault for not having a plan in mind for my character but it would be nice to see a decrease in price because currently it's insane and I don't have the gold for it lol

The price is meant to prevent constant renewals. If you cannot afford it make a plan for your build and then respec when you can afford it and then never worry about it again afterward. For awhile

Heindrich · September 2016

Game needs gold sinks. Inflation is already an issue.

PurifedBladez · September 2016

I hate this as well. No reason for it.. should be able to change whenever this isnt as something as big as your race.

Beardimus · September 2016

They are pricey, but go cheap after each patch for a while. Or buy a scroll with crowns after a sale.

Otherwise just Farm the shards. You end up with so many points they come out your ears. If your cost is 10k you must be end game / high level, just grab another 5-10 skill points to see u thru

Jennifur_Vultee · September 2016

Meri20098 wrote: »

Can there be a decrease in prices? Right now if I want to respec skills, attributes and CP I have to shell out close to 10,000 gold roughly (sorry don't have the exact value off the top of my head) That's insane to me. I suppose it's my own fault for not having a plan in mind for my character but it would be nice to see a decrease in price because currently it's insane and I don't have the gold for it lol

You do realize it used to be about twice the cost it is now...they did lower the cost already.

Nestor · September 2016

Meri20098 wrote: »

I have to shell out close to 10,000 gold roughly (sorry don't have the exact value off the top of my head) That's insane to me.

30 minutes or less of Legerdemain Activities and you will have enough gold.

KimberlyannKitsuragi · September 2016

Jennifur_Vultee wrote: »

Meri20098 wrote: »

Can there be a decrease in prices? Right now if I want to respec skills, attributes and CP I have to shell out close to 10,000 gold roughly (sorry don't have the exact value off the top of my head) That's insane to me. I suppose it's my own fault for not having a plan in mind for my character but it would be nice to see a decrease in price because currently it's insane and I don't have the gold for it lol

You do realize it used to be about twice the cost it is now...they did lower the cost already.

I didn't know. And your sarcasm is not appreciated in the least

KimberlyannKitsuragi · September 2016

Jennifur_Vultee wrote: »

You do realize it used to be about twice the cost it is now...they did lower the cost already.

I didn't know. And your sarcasm is not appreciated in the least

Wollust · September 2016

The game needs gold sinks.

Jennifur_Vultee · September 2016

Meri20098 wrote: »

Jennifur_Vultee wrote: »

Meri20098 wrote: »

Can there be a decrease in prices? Right now if I want to respec skills, attributes and CP I have to shell out close to 10,000 gold roughly (sorry don't have the exact value off the top of my head) That's insane to me. I suppose it's my own fault for not having a plan in mind for my character but it would be nice to see a decrease in price because currently it's insane and I don't have the gold for it lol

You do realize it used to be about twice the cost it is now...they did lower the cost already.

I didn't know. And your sarcasm is not appreciated in the least

What sarcasm? I was stating plainly that it was already lowered once and all I did was emphasize "did". Read the words, don't read into the words what you wish.

Morgha_Kul · September 2016

The thing is, customization is one of the game's STRENGTHS. By making respecs prohibitively expensive, they prevent people taking advantage of that.

KimberlyannKitsuragi · September 2016

Morgha_Kul wrote: »

The thing is, customization is one of the game's STRENGTHS. By making respecs prohibitively expensive, they prevent people taking advantage of that.

YES

s7732425ub17_ESO · September 2016

10k gold to respec your entire character is like no money at all. It's already super cheap and doesn't need to be cheaper. For something you rarely have to do, the cost is fine.

Rosveen · September 2016

They're already cheap. How often do you have to respec, realistically?

UrQuan · September 2016

ESO (like pretty much any game) is a game where gold is generated out of nothing. It's not a closed system in which a set amount of gold gets moved around the economy - each time someone loots gold off a mob or gets gold from a quest reward or a vendor that's new gold being added into the economy out of nowhere. In a single player game, that doesn't matter. In an MMO, it becomes a problem if there are no gold sinks in the game to remove gold from the economy.

If gold is continually being generated by in-game activities, but not being removed by gold sinks, then inflation is inevitable, and newer players who have had less time to generate gold become effectively locked out of the economy, and can never afford to buy anything from other players. Obviously this is a bad thing for newer players.

So what does this have to do with the topic at hand? Well, paying gold to respec is one of the relatively few gold sinks in the game. If it's made cheaper or removed entirely, then there are negative consequences for newer players because of inflation.

Having said that, with some major patches that change a lot of skills ZOS temporarily sets the respec cost very very low in order to allow people to change their build due to skills having changed significantly. Or sometimes they reset everyone's skills. Or sometimes they do neither. Whether they'll be doing anything like that with Update 12 is anyone's guess.

Beardimus · September 2016

...But there are options.

Farm more shards for free. Thus exploring more of the game.....

Focus on earning more gold, learn legerdemain as @Nestor said. Get into trading. Do Daily writs at top tier, earn you 4k and take 5 minutes to do.

I disagree having everything cheap would help, in terms of longevity. 10k is alot, when you start, but its easy to make at higher level

I'm not saying you are wrong I love a cheap respec, and do loads when its free after DLC drop. But all the options above are fun options around your problem now and offer u a chance to enjoy a wider richness of the game u may ignore if it was free

Morgha_Kul · September 2016

s7732425ub17_ESO wrote: »

10k gold to respec your entire character is like no money at all. It's already super cheap and doesn't need to be cheaper. For something you rarely have to do, the cost is fine.

Cheap depends on who you are, and where you are in your progression.

My character has about 4k gold, TOTAL. I've been adventuring in Wrothgar for the last 3 months, my gold total has gone DOWN, because nothing is ever worth any gold, it's all 0 value.

SO, with no income, there is not and never will be (at this rate) any way for me to respec.

Some people seem to think gold is easy to come by. My experience of the game says otherwise, and emphatically.

Bouldercleave · September 2016

Morgha_Kul wrote: »

s7732425ub17_ESO wrote: »

10k gold to respec your entire character is like no money at all. It's already super cheap and doesn't need to be cheaper. For something you rarely have to do, the cost is fine.

Cheap depends on who you are, and where you are in your progression.

My character has about 4k gold, TOTAL. I've been adventuring in Wrothgar for the last 3 months, my gold total has gone DOWN, because nothing is ever worth any gold, it's all 0 value.

SO, with no income, there is not and never will be (at this rate) any way for me to respec.

Some people seem to think gold is easy to come by. My experience of the game says otherwise, and emphatically.

By just harvesting for a hour and selling the mats, you could make enough to respec about 4 times.

Rosveen · September 2016

Morgha_Kul wrote: »

s7732425ub17_ESO wrote: »

10k gold to respec your entire character is like no money at all. It's already super cheap and doesn't need to be cheaper. For something you rarely have to do, the cost is fine.

Cheap depends on who you are, and where you are in your progression.

My character has about 4k gold, TOTAL. I've been adventuring in Wrothgar for the last 3 months, my gold total has gone DOWN, because nothing is ever worth any gold, it's all 0 value.

SO, with no income, there is not and never will be (at this rate) any way for me to respec.

Some people seem to think gold is easy to come by. My experience of the game says otherwise, and emphatically.

What do you do with looted armor and weapons, harvested materials and motifs from dailies? Why are you unwilling to take one evening off questing and focus purely on earning money for respec, if you need one?

IrishGirlGamer · September 2016

Meri20098 wrote: »

Can there be a decrease in prices? Right now if I want to respec skills, attributes and CP I have to shell out close to 10,000 gold roughly (sorry don't have the exact value off the top of my head) That's insane to me. I suppose it's my own fault for not having a plan in mind for my character but it would be nice to see a decrease in price because currently it's insane and I don't have the gold for it lol

Honestly, what's the problem? How often are you respeccing? And why don't you have more gold?

All of these are valid questions if you're asking to lower the price of a respec. If it costs you 10k, then you should be at a level where gold comes relatively easy from a number of sources. Grinding out 10k in a couple of days of part-time play (maybe a few hours a day) is pretty easy.

I currently run about 70-150k in my bank. All bank space is maxed out (paid in gold), I own all the horses, and so on. The only time thing I have to spend my gold on is armor sets or respecs. That's it.

Not being sarcastic or critical, I just don't see the need to change it.

Mojmir · September 2016

I'd rather they remove the all or nothing side of it.what if I only need to change one or two skills?

Bouldercleave · September 2016

I think you can change:

Attributes

Skills (full)

Morphs only

I'm pretty good with that, although it wouldn't suck to be able to respec individual skill lines.

UrQuan · September 2016

Mojmir wrote: »

I'd rather they remove the all or nothing side of it.what if I only need to change one or two skills?

If you could pick individual skill points that you wanted to take back (and, of course, pay a premium over the per point cost of doing a full respec or a morph respec) then I'd sink a lot more gold into respecs than I do currently. There are many times when I want to change just a couple of things, but I can't justify it because it would mean doing a full respec (if it's a passive I don't care about anymore, for example), or at a minimum a full morphs respec.

Acharnor · September 2016

Would so love the option of respeccing only one or two skills - gets me all tingly just thinking about it.

idk · September 2016

Meri20098 wrote: »

Can there be a decrease in prices? Right now if I want to respec skills, attributes and CP I have to shell out close to 10,000 gold roughly (sorry don't have the exact value off the top of my head) That's insane to me. I suppose it's my own fault for not having a plan in mind for my character but it would be nice to see a decrease in price because currently it's insane and I don't have the gold for it lol

It used to be twice the price and one could not respec morphs only.

Current price is pretty good.

PurifedBladez · September 2016

You guys are acting like a 10k gold sink has any effect on how terrible the xbox NA economy is.

That economy is so messed up I'd hope for the respec to be free.

UltimaJoe777 · September 2016

PurifedBladez wrote: »

You guys are acting like a 10k gold sink has any effect on how terrible the xbox NA economy is.

That economy is so messed up I'd hope for the respec to be free.

Which would make it worse.

PurifedBladez · September 2016

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

PurifedBladez wrote: »

You guys are acting like a 10k gold sink has any effect on how terrible the xbox NA economy is.

That economy is so messed up I'd hope for the respec to be free.

Which would make it worse.

Oh yeah it'd be so much worse.. lol

..it wouldnt.

Bouldercleave · September 2016

PurifedBladez wrote: »

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

PurifedBladez wrote: »

You guys are acting like a 10k gold sink has any effect on how terrible the xbox NA economy is.

That economy is so messed up I'd hope for the respec to be free.

Which would make it worse.

Oh yeah it'd be so much worse.. lol

..it wouldnt.

Actually Joe is 100% correct. Leaving all the current respec money in the economy would make inflation way worse. The game actually could use MORE gold sinks, not less.