Originally I was going to write yet another article complaining about respecs. When the patchg for Rift dropped, in preparation for Storm Legion we all got the joy of respecing our toons. For some, maybe not so joyous.
I am going to take just a moment to whine about the process. It took over two hours just to respec my four toons with a total of five roles. Choosing new roles was bad enough, setting up my action bars was almost a nightmare. For those of you with six toons and multiple roles per, or more, really you have my sympathies. My other whine is that I was just getting used to the new role I chose for my Warrior and I was really comfortable with how I was playing my Cleric. And I really had things down on my Mage. Don’t get me wrong, none of them were perfect, well my Cleric felt close to it. But I was comfortable with them.
Maybe that’s the point. We get comfortable with our play style and abilities and get complacent.
In defense of the respec, I have seen some improvement and advantage. Though not all of it is attributable to new roles. For my Mage and my Warrior, it comes down to the change in how Planar Attunement is handled. Finally I feel like I’m doing the damage I should be. Or at least closer. I’m still trying to gear up.
I did notice that my Cleric seems to be a bit mroe powerful, even though she lost a lot of her healing abilities with the change. Still, she survives pretty good and if I’d go ahead and run her up to cap she might be my best bet at surviving Storm Legion.
Though I whine a bit about the respec process, it seems to be working out to an imporvement for me so I’ll just keep my head down and keep wailing on things in preparation for the expansion and hope I don’t have to spend too much time grinding old content to get gear to survive the new stuff.
