The game's director Joe Shely told Polygon in the course of a roundtable D2R Items discussion in a roundtable interview that "having your character appear to be a compilation of choices that you've made can lead to interesting decisions, or at a minimum, interesting opportunities."Shely said that the Diablo team is aware that players, especially at the beginning of their journey, will not know the full extent of each class's set of abilities. It is expected that players want to explore.

"When you examine our respec system," Shely said, "which can be applied to both the skill tree as well as Paragon for higher levels which is our endinggame growth system. "We've focused on approaching it in a way where you're making a choice matters as does your character. not the same as everyone who has a character, but you're given a lot of room to play out.

"You've gained the capability to respec point by point. It's easy to despend a single point and then use it to purchase another thing however, as you progress higher into levels, the price increases to make choices more considered. Of course, you could modify your entire tree in one shot if you need to start from scratch. start."

Fergusson stated that as players advance and more deeply into their character Buy D2R items Switch "the costs of in-game currency to respect becomes higher and higher and eventually you'll get to the point that you're playing a Level 90 Barbarian and instead of completely altering my build, it's more beneficial to simply roll a brand new Barbarian and begin again."