Personally, I think everyone should stop discussing the respec options and focus on the real problem here which is the alleged multiclassing changes. If we just complain about everything then NOTHING will be heard. Yes, respecing your entire character or the origin character whose class is tied to the narrative is ridiculous, though that's something we can live with and just ignore. I can't say that about this news of multiclassing.
For those that are saying the multiclassing stuff doesn't matter, sorry, you just don't know what you're talking about. Multiclassing MUST have restrictions and opportunity costs. This isn't my opinion, this is fact. By removing the downside of multiclassing, you make it the clear optimal choice, thus removing the choice of creating a single class. No one is going to pick suboptimal choices when building their character. By having opportunity costs in multiclassing, you are creating an actual choice--do I go this route and have this ability, or the other route so my PC can do this instead. One may not be better than the other, which is what makes it a tough choice. If there's a clear choice that's better than the other, that's what everyone is going to do and we'll all be playing the same characters!
It honestly makes no sense that Larian would do this because by doing so they are making the options that they worked so hard on for the past several years essentially obsolete. Someone earlier in this thread mentioned a good example of this. If I'm playing a fighter that can just multiclass into Wizard with no restrictions or sacrifices then what is the point of the Eldritch Knight? No one would ever pick that subclass because multiclassing would present the clearly superior option, thus rendering all of the work that Larian did on the Eldritch Knight obsolete before the game even launches.
This is a HUGE problem and this is coming from someone who does not whine about everything little thing that isn't perfect. I think Larian has done a great job on this game so far and I've been so excited to play it. I'm ok not getting everything I want, that's the reality of life, but this here is a real issue that could break the game and I'm so disheartened to hear about it. We need to be vocal about this. Accept the respec whether you support it or not. We have to pick out battles and I say the multiclassing is the battle to fight.
