Thrashing wrote:However, from all your walls of text I fail to find even a single decent argument as to why respec costs should stay at 50g. The only thing you do is assume everyone plays the same way as you, that every guild functions exactly the same and then you derail the thread with writing a diary about your raiding experience that is entirely irrelevant.
He posted that because the other guy was challenging his statements. This is how the challenge is resolved.
He was well in right to write that down, and it made the other guy look like a fool for his unnecessary remarks.
But yes, the main point of this thread is the respec cost. Not silly personal bickering, and I believe everyone here should be grown up enough to not go down to such things, but some of the people in this thread aren't quite beyond that phase yet.
I've said a long time ago and made many posts about this topic, and it is and always will be - I feel it should stay on 50g. Whether or not that is a larger goldsink for the server than if it was 10g, allowing more frequent respecs, is beyond anyone's math, as it would require the ability of foresight or some sort of time travel device.
None of the people here have either of those, so the cost will probably remain 50g, as the devs probably feel pretty strong about that remaining blizzlike.
Whatever the case, I feel it should never be completely FREE. That would be beyond dumb to me.
It's there for a reason, and yes we can argue all day if the reason is as valid on private server populations or how it will affect the economy in the long run, but none of those can be known for sure and in the end everyone is just speculating and formulating their own thoughts, ideals and opinions on the subject.
There is no RIGHT answer.
If you want population on the server however, it can indeed be likely that lower respec costs might appeal to more people than the blizzlike cost - but again, no one knows how the population will be on launch, or 4-5 months after launch. So if the server blooms, then the lower cost wouldn't even be necessary if that's the only argument people have behind the respec cost being lower.
And then there's the PvP argument going on atm, and I still feel that the cost should just be blizzlike, and rather than deciding what the cost should be NOW before release, it should rather be a bigger topic of discussion, after release, when we see with clear eyes the economy, pvp popularity, amount of gold people have, etc etc, and can then compare statistics and make a more relevant and on-point discussion and arguments that actually have any truth or surety behind them, rather than just being speculations, thoughts and opinions.