There's a difference between an "Exploit" and the titles aforementioned "Balance problems"
It's not a balance problem that you can quasi-long rest by respeccing. Given how easy it is to simply just long rest, with times you're not able to long rest (Such as in the Mindflayer Colony) you can't access Withers to respec either.
It's not a balance problem that you can steal potentially infinite money from vendors because just normally playing the game can give you far more gold than is required to purchase every single item in the game.
It's not a balance problem that Withers will revive characters for 200g because you get so many resurrection scrolls that he's not actually needed. Not to mention the plethora of vendors that sell scrolls for about the same price (Which even if you're not respeccing to force restocks will provide ample amounts of them) and again... Normal gameplay will net you literally tens of thousands of spare gold.
Literally none of these "Problems" actually provide any benefit to someone to who goes out of their way to use them over the normal game systems. Maybe they're unintended and can be considered "Exploits" but they're hardly balance problems.
Maybe if gold was actually a limiting factor outside the first 5 minutes of the game, maybe... But then you can just have a Hireling Bard play some songs to generate infinite gold so it becomes a non-issue anyway...
I agree with this. I think respeccing was introduced to experiment and get a feel of the different classes. Not to use it as a campaign tool. I respecced once, turning my entire party into bards just so I can hear them play as a "band" together. Something which would be impossible to hear without the respec option. But I didn't use it to alter the campaing I was playing.
I don't want to offend anyone, but when I read some comments about the game being "too easy" or "too exploitable"' it makes me think of a crossword puzzle magazine that has the solutions in the back. And then people complaining "I copied all the solutions in the crosswords, it's much too easy. They should remove these solutions". But they are not there to be copied, but to check after you finished the puzzle and couldn't complete it what was missing. So you could learn and get better.
Similar to this game. Play it like you want. If you want to throw potions to heal everyone, do it, but then don't complain that it's the game's fault that you did it. If you take long rest after every battle. Good for you, but why complain afterwards that it's too easy to take long rest if you can just not do it ? Or, ow I don't want to resurrrect my 3 dead companions, but I have 600 gold pieces, so I must do it. Oh if the price had been s 6000 gp then I would have to raise only 1, or 2 or maybe all 3 anyway...
