W101: Training Points Reset Arrives!!!

If you’re like me and haven’t been keeping up on the recent patches this little bit of news might have escaped your notice.  The game patch released on April 13th added a Training Point reset option.  O-M-F-G!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  This is a new lease on life for fans of Wizard 101.  Thank you so very much!

Selecting secondary and tertiary magic schools when you’re very new to the game is difficult.  You don’t even know the abilities of your primary school, let alone choose a complimentary secondary school of magic.  Moreover, you don’t know enough about your preferred play-style and combat strategy to make such choices.  Unfortunately, until now those choices were permanent. 

I agonized over my choices as I do in all games.  I played the ones that were of interest to me to level 10 and then created my main character.  For my secondary, I used the knowledge gained from testing the various classes and asked around.  That’s still not enough to make those choices that early in the game.  It was MANY levels later when my personal combat style emerged and when it did, I knew that I’d made the wrong choice for how I preferred to play.

It wasn’t an insurmountable problem.  You can buy spells from all the schools of magic as Treasure Cards.  However, that’s a bit expensive if you find a base set of spells you want access to long term.  Resetting those choices is almost like getting a new character.  This also creates the opportunity for players at max level to choose combinations explicitly geared toward PVP if that’s what they’re doing until more content arrives.

Wow, just wow!  I can’t wait to make new choices, knowing what I know now about the game, and how I play it.  Death School of magic here I come!  That will make me Balance + Death + ???  Figuring out which to use as third is going to be exciting too.  I already know what game I’ll be playing this weekend.

To reset your training points visit Mr. Lincoln in Golem Court.  The reset option costs 3500 Crowns making this is a micro-transaction feature. 

Now if Runes of Magic would realize they need to implement a high cost, even one time only option, for resetting your secondary class in that game, my MMO gaming world would be pretty darn sweet.  PLEASE implement in ROM.  Take the elite skills back without even refunding the materials and gold they cost to acquire.  Wipe the skills clean and refund the Talent Points.  Puhleze implement this sort of reset in ROM.  Class fundamentals were changed AND the ability to self-buff from the secondary was eliminated all in the release patch.  That's not right.  Please fix!

Comments

[Tipa]

It cost me 4550 Crowns, but yeah, I went straight for Death, too. Then I just went for specific spells from other schools. Actually there were only two spells I wanted for Death -- Spirit Shield and Feint. Picked up the shields from Ice and Storm and Reshuffle from Balance and I was done.

[Alysianah aka Saylah]

@Tipa - If the cost is by level they should say that. Hmm, I just walked up to Mr. Lincoln and checked what it asked for and it showed $3500. No matter, I would have payed twice that for this feature. :-)

I want most of what's in Death since I want the healing leech abilities from that class. I'm too giddy to figure out what I want after that since I'm balance with the great shields and damage buffs. Yes, I foresee a fun weekend in game.

[Smelt]

You're absolutely right about Runes of Magic. Unless you do a lot of up front research before playing a game, which I don't, being able to reset skills, talent points etc...is essential. Yes, RoM please fix.

[Tesh]

The ability to change class and spec decisions is so fundamental to long-term enjoyment of these games that it's still a surprise to me that there are devs who don't consider it.

I'm definitely happy that KI saw the light on this one. Now, if only I could trade gold for crowns via a player-driven currency exchange like Puzzle Pirates...

[Alysianah aka Saylah]

@Smelt - From our lips to angel's ears. Hopefully, ROM will see the light.

@Tesh - Yes, ROM got the micro-trans currency to in-game gold part right. I was on the other night and someone was BEGGING in chat to buy 199 diamonds to purchase the new mounts. They're only available for a limited time and can change daily. I whispered her and said if she could wait for me to figure out how to do it - couldn't get it to work, I'd trade with her.

It took about 30 minutes to figure out that I had a mod with a global xlm file that had altered the auction house UI where I couldn't see the tab with the newly deployed diamond trade options. Once I got it working we timed me posting the diamonds via skype with her immediately searching the AH and buying them. Pretty funny.

KI is coming along. They'll probably get to that point.

[Capn John]

Although the Rogue/Knight combo in RoM is touted by many as a good pairing, I regretted choosing Knight as my secondary class. Fortunately I was barely into my teens, so for me it was an easy decision to make to reroll a Scout/Rogue combo. I'm enjoying that a lot more.

I haven't played W101 for far too long now. I got into Dragonspyre but the bleakness of that zone is too depressing for me to want to quest there.

[Tesh]

You could always come back to Marleybone and just putter around with me, Capn'. I don't have access to half of the zone, and have done all the quests that I can, but I still just go blast some bad guys every now and then for kicks.

...when I'm not playing my new Storm wizard, anyway. Maybe now that talent point resets are in, I should go back and revisit my Myth wizard, though. I still need to see if I can shuffle pets around in the shared bank system, too.

[Capn John]

After that last(next) post of Saylah's, I'm getting a hankering to dive back into W101. Tesh, given how tough finding folks is in W101 if you're not already friends with them, we might have to hook up via Skype, or just arrange to meet in-game at a certain place at a certain time on a specific realm.