Love this game and how we get better at what we do. But I'd love the ability to reset the perks, even if it meant spending gold to redo how I play a character without having to start over.

yup i gave up.

The more times you do it, the more coin it will cost for next time.
another way of using the useless septims after having all of the [censored] already.

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1294471-something-a-lot-of-us-want-please-read/

wow, that was a lot of 'discussion' about the topic. I don't get how in a single player game people get mad about how others play the game. TES could charge me 5 bucks for an addon for the ability and I'd be happy to pay it.

You don't need to reset your perks.

You just think you do.

The game is designed so that a number of dramatically different character types with diverse skills and abilities will be able to play through the game.

Enjoy your game.

Perks are exactly that: "Perks".

Azrael
The Nord with the Sword

I don't really like the idea for resetting perks, but I agree that having a way to buy a reset with LOTS of gold would be fine. Only a 1 time thing though. Maybe have a vendor sell one for like 50k gold

If you reset your perks you couldn't spend them on other skills anyway because you have to level the skill before unlocking a perk

I don't think it's necessary, but if I was Bethesda, I would slap it together and charge real currency for it ASAP.

I guarantee more svckers would buy this than horse armor.

Maybe they could donate a portion of the proceeds to schizophrenia research...

Fking no!

What would stop people from making best armor, best enchantments, best potions and then erasing those skills and selecting only combat skills. Think about that before you go spouting nonsense.

Just introduce a DLC that has the player perform a quest for Harmaeus Mora, and upon completing this quest, he grants the player a one-use item that resets his/her perks. Blam-o, everybody's happy.

Edit: Post above makes a really good point... :/
How about having the DLC item run a script that searches the game world for any armor/weapons/potions/poisons that have been made/improved by the player and "corrects" them to the quality of item that would have been made had it instead been created with an unmodified crafting ability by checking the player's current skill level and recreating the armor/enhancements/potions as if the player had just made them using their current skills (any enchantments beyond the first would be removed, enchantments would use a soul gem appropriate to the player's enchanting skill: Petty 15-20, Lesser 21-40, Common 41-60, Greater 61-80, Grand 81-100).

give up? don't you mean give?
Sounds like you give up and don't care about it anymore.
People who typically use please don't get much.


The game is what it is. Skyrim was designed so you can enjoy making a new character, aren't you hyped? Some people will just say, hey, even if have a character with something you'd rather change deal with it because this game isn't about you, it's about the game making you stick with choices you made and no longer have the ability to alter it. Anyways the smartest thing to do is to level up a character without perks then mess around at higher levels but I'd say 300 magic, 400 hp, 300 stamina sounds good for stats.

I just don't care, leaving my character without perks.

It would cost a lot of "septims". Also, what's to stop players from opening up console and typing player.additem 0000000f 999999? Oh the humanity!

Why do you care what people do in their own games? If they felt like making an uber character more power to them. It's not like you can just use the console commands to make you a god. Oh wait you can. This isn't an MMO it's single player game. The only person who can define what is cheating in the game is the person playing it.

To me your line of thinking is the nonsense.

I'm on about my ninth character, would probably still be on my first one if perks could be reset.

Single player game, no impact on you. So, who cares. I wouldn't, but if someone else wants it, go for it.

This.

The perk system is fine. Some people should see a therapist about their OCD. It's scary to read some posts where players have piled up 15-20 perks without spending them. Enjoy the game! It's not about achieving some perfect demi-god character after 80 hours. It's about having fun for 80 hours! At least with your first character, just live and learn. You can always do a second playthrough and try to be more of a perfectionist.

You see, this is a fundamental issue I have with certain gamers. You believe that you should just be able to do whatever you want with a game. I tend to believe that the artists and developers who create a game, should be respected for their vision. If you want to use the console to alter the game then go ahead but don't expect the developers to alter their vision of what the game is.

Until you start getting 1-shot by bandit archers with iron arrows. Then you realize all your perks are useless.

Lol, all this guy is asking is for a simple option to reset his character if he wish to. Again, it would be optional, not something everyone would HAVE to do. I find it pretty hilarious how people are getting their panties in a bunch for such a small thing like that.

Hate that people think it shouldn't be put in, if they don't want to reset then they don't have to however other people don't have the time to start over and over when the use points in a useless perk. I don't get why they care so much and argue against it when there are things like changing the difficulty at any point " o0oo tough boss better put in on novice" isn't that just as bad if not worse than respeccing. The thing with respeccing and the whole smithing issue is if someone wants to lvl smith, perk it, make some killer stuff then respec the points so what its their game + it ruins the game anyway I'm lvl 60 on xbox with perks in smith and enchant and now I 1 hit dragons and have lost any interest in exploration due to me not needing to upgrade anything...

Best idea would be to use dragonsouls to respec 1 point per soul I have 18 unused.

and even to the people against if they respec smithing have anything they made or upgraded deleted personally I wouldn't care I just wanna make my game enjoyable again...

No. Choices have consequences. Even if it's a singleplayer game it is still a massive RPG and learn to play according to it. You are never forced to invest your perks right away. I am counting on the assumption you simply want to relocate all your perks and put them into another archetype/tree to switch on the fly.

Once more, learn to deal with it and embrace the mentality.

doesn't mean it would be good game design
some1 allready mentioned the balance isseus
there's the skill requirement issue
and than there's the fact there has to be a bit of dedication and importance to the choices you make while building your character
if you can endlessly swap it around it wouldn't feel like a character increasingly becoming stronger
would be more like swapping parts on a car.

I say no, you svckas should just learn to live with the choices you made (see moral to it and everything XD)

Well here is something I learned. Don't waste 3 perks in Mage Armor (Alteration). Just put on some actual armor, because it svcks.

Of course I don't need to reset my perks. I want to reset my perks. I thought that was obvious to everyone who wasn't being disingenuous about the discussion.