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Obviously in D2 there was no skill point reassignment. Later on GW was released which focused a lot on reassignment. Although reassignment sounds kinds of good on paper, I personally found it to be a total flop. Firstly, characters do not develop any consistent personality ... each character just becomes a malleable piece of clay that can be converted into anything else at a whim. It completely kills the sense of building a character with a plan and a purpose.

Secondly, it kills the replayability of the game. If you are locked into your choices, then most people end up re-playing the game choosing different skill paths to get a different feel...its fun...and it takes a while and a few chars to figure out whats best for you. In GW, theres no reason to create multiple chars or replay the game.

Thirdly, it rewards players who go the extra mile of doing a lot of research to pick good skills as opposed to not thinking at all about their character design until they are level 70 and have just fallen into a "rut" by chance. Not that theres anything wrong with those players, but, they shouldnt just be able to "fix" all their mistakes that someone else spent a lot of time planning out carefully in advance.

I had a fourth point but I forgot it

Anyway, since they are probably changing this system around a bit, I just want to pre-emptively state my opinion that skill point reassignment should not be in D3, at least not without major costs. It might be interesting if there was a SMALL amount of reassignment that was possible and considered a luxury. For example, a quest reward could be "5 reassignment points" that allowed you to re-allocate 5 of your state points, or "1 skill reassignent point," correspondingly. Also, perhaps re-allocation points could be purchased for extremely hefty sums of money. This could help bring back value to gold for trading, also. Anyway, whatever happens, reassignment should not come easily.