Wish you could change advanced classes, great idea!

I already mentioned, the concept of warrior, mage and rogues are fairly well known in a typical fantasy RPG.

What the heck is an INQUISTOR? The historical definition is that he is a religious police rooting out heretics and is closer to the warhammer witch hunter class concept than this lightsaber wielding sith.

What is a sage? Isn't he a philisopher or a teacher? Like confucius? Why is he thrown hadoken?

Players do not know all these new class definition in SWTOR. So they have to be given SOME chance to undo their mistakes which they made after only playing for few classes.

Why is ADVANCE class chosen at level 10? Shouldn't it be chosen at level 40 instead?

Plus you mention doing research first on the class.

How are we to do that? Go on the website to look at the classes and you're not given much at all. Three videos showing three basic abilities and a nice little story about the AC's without any actual detail of what they do.

There's a huge difference between watching videos on youtube of how a class plays, to actually experiencing it for yourself.

Those who oppose it are simply IGNORANT of the issues faced by those who requests for it. All I hear are :

1.) Re-roll another character?

I have TEN ALTS and I have every wish to level them all to 50. And I still request that we have AC respec for the good of the community.

As someone who is a heavy "alt-ism" player, I don't recommend players to roll an alt because he made a mistake. By all means, roll an alt because you find it FUN. Roll an alt because you want to experience new stories. But don't roll an alt because you were FORCED to. Eventually, you will be resentful, burn out and quit.

2.) SWTOR has millions of players, we don't need the whiners?

SWTOR is not so big yet that it cannot fail. We need all the players we can attract.

3.) WoW (or other MMO/games) don't have it, why should SWTOR?

Wow didn't have AC either, duh! WoW didn't have class story either, duh! Wow didn't have companions either, double duh!

Other games don't have X, does not means SWTOR cannot have X. Otherwise, SWTOR should not have lightsabers since no other games have lightsabers as well.

Geez, as if MMOs are not allowed to innovate.

Any other lame excuses not to have AC-respec?

Oh yeah.

4.) Having AC-respec will doom SWTOR and cause end of the world!!!

Yeah right....


Oh one more...

5.) Because the dev said it!

LOL...and the dev are perfect beings incapable of making mistakes? Geez, then they better don't change any abilities and fix any bugs.

Because, yes, current AC design is BUGGY. They need to fix the design BUG/FLAW.

Couldn't agree more.

Perhaps if there were more variety to the levelling process it wouldn't be so unappealing to players. I mean repeating the same class quests is one thing, they're not a huge part of the levelling. But it's the fact as anyone on the same faction you have to go to the same planets and do the same missions whilst levelling.
There's no choice in it, you can't say "Well last time I went to X planet at this level, so this time I'll go to Y planet." like you can with other MMO's.

There's too little freedom of choice in this game.

From game design perspective, Bioware can fix this two ways.

A.) Re-design advance class

1.) Officially breaks down the "advance" class to 8 classes and let players choose from level 1.
2.) 8 classes means 8 different primary stats
3.) 16 different class story (8 classes x 2 for both factions)
4.) 16 different sets of companions
5.) 16 sets of armor designs
6.) 8 sets of abilities unique to the 8 classes (mirrored on the other side)
7.) 3 sets of skill tree per class (total 8 x 3 = 24 skill trees, mirrored on the other side)

OR

B.) Allow AC respec.

I think asking for AC-respec is VERY reasonable...

Bioware should count themselves fortunate we did not ask for (A).

So you basically admit to being incapable of reading all the information the game provides when picking the class? They even tell you right there what the advanced classes will be capable of doing.

If you don't know what your class does you simply didn't pay attention to the character creation screen. And didn't start paying attention by the time you got to pick your AC.

my vote is also 'no' to adv. class switching.

Nothing on that list really is in any way a requirement. I'm pretty sure Mages and Warlocks use much the same stats and equipment. I know they have the same story line...

So no the things you list don't need to be done to change the way the AC system works.

But even then waiting until lvl 10 to pick an AC doesn't need to change either, and is not by any means grounds to allow people to change their class.

They are completely different classes. Being a Powertech I have abilities a Merc Doesn't as a Merc they have abilities I don't. There's also 2 - 3 different stat choices depending on the tree you pick. And even weapon choices.

They play completely differently letting them swap Advanced Class aka A Class not a Skill tree is down right insane you'd have to keep fixing all your bars every time you switch and I don't mean just 1 or 2 buttons you get from your skill tree but your WHOLE bar except for the like what 3 or 4 base abilities you get before level 11.

Sith Warrior is even a bigger switch since a Jugg uses heavy armor and 1 lightsaber while a mara uses 2 lightsabers and medium armor.

If the classes were mostly the same other than the trees like say..WoW or even Warhammer it'd make sense. This is alot like EQ2 (in the beginning) where what you picked mattered as the classes play different, uses different stat styles, and have different aabilities.

I'm all for Dual Spec so people can swap between heal / damage or tank / damage but between tank / heals because of Advanced classes? No...Absolutely Not. I dont want this game homogonized. If you know you're never going to heal or tank then pick the Class with the best DPS tree choices.

You can preview the trees before you make your choice, they also explain its permante and they also explains what each class is best for. IF you can't make read and comprehend and feel you made a mistake...you should know with in a few levels adn it takes what an hour or two to start over? Its pretty obvious to anyone with any sort of RPG experience what class is best for your playstyle especially if you spend 2 seconds to check things out and ask questions.

Oh and Everquest 2 has / had AdvancedClasses and guess what you can't swap those either.

I to am for this and have added it in my first thread on here, please visit it and give your opinion on the matter.
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=336652