What if legacy leagues had legacy passive trees?

A lot of feedback seems to harp on skill tree changes, especially when previous builds are stymied. What if the legacy leagues allowed you to (optionally) keep your previous tree and layout? Legacy items already exist, would this be much different? Certainly it would please a growing, haranguing minority.

If GGG does not have the technology, fair enough, but if it's possible what objections and concerns exist? I cannot think of any that do not also apply to legacy items. In many ways the same arguments that permit legacy items would justify legacy trees. Then again it's likely apathy is part of GGG's (internal) justification for legacy items and that is a point decidedly against what I am describing.

One caveat I have is that characters with legacy trees should not be able to respec without resetting to the new tree.

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DirkAustin wrote:

Lol, nice try.

3/0 thread

pls don't divide by 0

Quit calling them "legacy leagues".

Actually they can't, the game right now can only support 1 skill tree.

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Veta321 wrote:

If GGG does not have the technology, fair enough, but if it's possible what objections and concerns exist? I cannot think of any that do not also apply to legacy items. In many ways the same arguments that permit legacy items would justify legacy trees.

I cannot trade your legacy tree to my orbs. Therefore it is *impossible* for new characters to obtain a legacy tree. For legacy items it is possible for new characters to obtain them by trading, though for some of them, a relatively brief stint of farming may be required to gather the respective orbs.

So your proposal would generate an unbridgable gap between players. Not merely wide (as is now the case), but unbridgable.

I support this idea.
It could help doing this:

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Rhys wrote:

Spoiler

sounds legit

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INEXFadeXFHONOR wrote:

Have GGG considered a randomly generated passive tree concept or not yet? And what do you think about it?

Personally, I think it would be a cool idea for a short-term race, if the seed for the random passive tree layout was based on the race start time or something (to prevent rerolling the tree). Unfortunately, it wouldn't be an easy task, just because of our current tech. And it would need to be a Void league, too.

E: http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/766266

Sure, everyone in Standard and Hardcore get the Passive tree from Closed Beta. How does that sound to you?

Any more great ideas?

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Sneakypaw wrote:

Sure, everyone in Standard and Hardcore get the Passive tree from Closed Beta. How does that sound to you?

Any more great ideas?

And only act 1&2, as in closed beta.

You guys have 0 imagination. If tommorow GGG introduced legacy trees you would be all over the forum saying:

"We had legacy uniques, OFC we have now legacy trees, there is no need for a player who chose to keep playing with his char to modify his build again and again and again. ALso it would help GGG since we will not have any more ragequit from players who do not want to accomodate to a new tree"