Any respecs lately?

Stellus

Hey all,

I've been thinking about coming back but I have a question. When I left, my character was kind of broken after I misplaced a few skills in the first ever Respec patch (I think it was patch 1 - can't remember). I was wondering when the last respec was given out. Maybe if I return I can get my character back on track if there's a chance I can respec him again. As of now, I don't feel like completely starting over again. Thanks in advance!

katriell

..."Respec"...? Sorry, not sure what you mean...

Stellus

Er, sorry. Respec as in "respecification" where the developers award you all your skill points back so that you can respend them to beeter plan your character out. They have done it once around Patch 1.

Rali

They haven't far as I know... thing about Ryzom is if you level anything enough you have more points then you can even spend.  Not really any "broken" characters.

GRIMACHU

Yeah, you can't break your character really, there's points galore to spend.

There's only ever been one respec.

Stellus

Problem is, you gotta level up a lot to access the skill points "galore" and I found leveling to become a slow grind after hitting 50. Maybe it was just me but I would have to put in a lot of time to get the points I wasted back into my character.

amcyr

Hey Stellus old man.
Long time no see. How goes it?

Sorry no respec, but a whole lot of changes.

They've finally introduced outposts, faction alignment (Kami-Karavan) has become
important, and they now have xp crystals that lessen the grind somewhat.

Stellus

Hey Amcyr! Goin' good. It's definitely been awhile.

Thinking about coming back and hoping the changes aren't so drastic that they're alienating What are these xp crystals you speak of?

amcyr

LOL. Funny you should mention it because the changes did actually chase me out.

xp crystals are obtained from outposts (a certain number get released from a "drill" on a time basis) and basically double your xp gain. They come in level 50, 100, 150, 200 and 250 models (from correspondng level outposts) and they get used up when you gain the additional xp (you have to activate them when you want to use them). You can only use crystals higher than the xp level you are trying to gain.

Only guilds that have outposts get xp crystals and only at the level of the oupost, though some "nice" guilds hand them out, but usually only to players of the same faction. Karavan aligned guilds are currently dominating the game.

Many players don't like the crystals (I think it's about 60-40 against them) since they basically make the strong guilds even stronger and stifle newer guilds. They also don't eliminate the constant grind, only increase the level gain of the grinding. Also, players who worked hard to achieve their levels without crystals are unhappy some people are now doing it in half the time.

But, by all means, make your own decision. Do the 7 day trial on a new character if you can't afford a month of play time.

Rali

I dunno... I hit a couple 250 skills before the whole crystal thing.  And I must say that I still like the crystals.   There are sooo many skills to level and so much to do that it just makes things a little easier.

As for the guilds without an outpost... well all they need to do is ask nicely for crystals from one of these so called "uber" guilds.  The community is still the same awesome people we've come to know and love, so I haven't seen any greediness since the introduction of these OPs.

Anywho, that's my 2 cents on the matter.  /hugz

katriell

"Only guilds that have outposts get xp crystals and only at the level of the oupost, though some "nice" guilds hand them out, but usually only to players of the same faction."

If anyone reading this needs any q50 crystals, please send Jelathnia a tell. Don't care what faction or race you are, the crystals are free to everyone.