Agreed, this needs to happen. It wastes alot of time. Most the time when I respec its only 1 or 2 skills, but I have to do every one of them and waste time that I could be doing other things....

ZOS stated about 2 years ago they were working on a way to respec a single skill line (which would be the best solution really).

However, here we are 2 years later and the best we have are our Morphs.

For one, I would like to be able to respec the Crafting so I can recover points in say, Research Passives that I no longer need to be invested in.

Here is my Christmas List for how skill respecs should be offered:

1. All Skills (what we have now)
2. All Morphs (what we have now)
3. One Skill or Class Line (which would include Guild lines)
4. All Actives (so we leave our passives in place)

The last one is something that may not be needed if we could just get #3.

I'm not usually one to necro old threads, but this is the most recent one to discuss a QoL problem that has been around since release and I have yet to see an admin weigh in and state whether or not (if it's impossible just say so!) they plan on making this tedious task any easier.

Other threads on the same basic topic:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/299006/zos-why-can-we-not-respec-skill-points-one-by-one-the-same-way-as-champion-points/p1
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/71715/skill-point-cancellation-why-return-all-the-points-stupid-unnecessary-money-sink/p1
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/85764/give-us-single-point-respec
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/313212/skill-points-respec


My proposal is simple and to the point:
- Don't change the cost. Respeccing will still cost (x)gold per skill point you've earned. This allows the system coding to remain as it is and reduces the programming changes needed. I'm not asking to be billed only for the skill points I want to move - this is a QoL improvement for those who don't want to spend half an hour trying to remember where all their points were: not an attempt to be cheap.

- Treat it the same way Champion Points are done. Respeccing just opens up a "skill point editor" that allows you to remove/add skill points from any active or passive skill. note* This would not automatically remove skill points from skills that you don't have any need to edit. Skills that are morphed would revert to the unmorphed version with one skill point removed, and would have both morphs available to put a skill point back into.

- Finalize your actions when you're done and the skill points are now locked in.

There may be add-ons on PC that create a skill point template to help you remember where your points were and maybe even expedite the allocation process, but on console (where I play) there is nothing convenient about this process. I would gladly pay the same amount of gold that a full respec costs just to change a few passives or active skills that I don't use anymore, so again I want to stress I'm not looking for a "per-point" respec cost.... Just the ability to respec one skill point at a time.

Sincerely

PS @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom if you ladies could at least offer some response on whether this is something that was/is/will be looked at and if there's even a remote possibility of it becoming a reality that would be great. Silence is worse than bad news...

NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIN

Only 22 exclamation marks in OP thread? Not enough, ZOS probably won't see this request. Add moar.

Feric51 wrote: »

- Treat it the same way Champion Points are done. Respeccing just opens up a "skill point editor" that allows you to remove/add skill points from any active or passive skill. note* This would not automatically remove skill points from skills that you don't have any need to edit. Skills that are morphed would revert to the unmorphed version with one skill point removed, and would have both morphs available to put a skill point back into.

- Finalize your actions when you're done and the skill points are now locked in.

This is exactly how I think it should be done. Makes sense and it's a process that everyone's already familiar with.

Anything they put on crown store won't be eaisier to do in future. So with respec scroll, they won't allow better way to respec appear in game

This, its not so much an cost issue as an bookkeeping one
Currently you need to write down you stats and morphs, playing lots of alts its not something you remember.
Some settings are that you prefer other are meta and you just read about 4 months ago.

Fallen Earth had a great feature where you used an injector and all your skills/stats became fluid and you could adjust them point by point for a limited time after consumption. There was a minus sign on one side of the stat/skill and a plus sign on the other. You just clicked the sign and it subtracted/incremented by a single point.

A variation of that would be helpful. That way your points stay put until you move however many you wanted and then accept a permanent change, unlike having every point upchucked at you where you need to reapply everything. Not to mention you can get kicked from the game for inactivity if you take too long reapplying all your points if you're not quick enough! And Z keeps changing skills so you have to take time reading them over before you decide to commit, lol

Try doing a reset worth 352 skill points.

They are probably worried about the gold sink. But I would pay the cost of a skill respec if it meant I didn't have to go through and put every single point back in.

Coming to a crown store near you!

Yes please!

Best moment I had was when I respecced around 290 skill points, spaced out in the middle of putting them back in, and ended up with the exact skill point allocation I had.... 3 times!
And I just wanted to take out 2 skill points from the mages guild passives... :-/

When you get so used to how your build looks like, that it backfires during the tedious, yet also mind-numbingly boring, process of re-applying a couple
Hundred skillpoints.

For the love of gold, please let us change these one by one! I wouldn't even mind paying the same gold fee! Save me from myself!

I suspect that this, or something like this - e.g. changing one skill line at a time - is already on the developers' to-do list.

However.

First, to-do lists for projects of ESO's scale and complexity tend to be rather large, and do not, as a rule, diminish over time. Between patching or refactoring old code, implementing new content or features, and changing some of the existing elements...you literally never run out of things to do.

Second, due to the foregoing developer work has to be prioritized, especially as, typically, budgets and manhours are a limited quantity. Which means if you're the manager, you allocate your developer time first to the most critical projects, and then down in order of priority. In ESO's case, it is pretty obvious that things like new content and playability patching would likely be at the top of the list, while a - admittedly very welcome and useful, but still relatively minor from the "can players live without it for a few more months" - feature such as changing points one skill line at a time, well...I am sure they mean to get to it, and they might even actually get to it at some point before most of the player base dies of old age. One hopes. Possibly.