The abilities and weapon proficiencies at 1st level cannot be respected now. It must be allowed imo.

I get the impression this was intentional

 

Unfortunate since I play casters and may want to change my level 1 spell pick. 

trying to remember if you could repick the lvl 1 stuff in poe1, or if it started @ 2.

trying to remember if you could repick the lvl 1 stuff in poe1, or if it started @ 2.

You couldn't change your class or appearance, but I do think you could change your change your class picks.

You could do it for your own character but you couldn't respec companion's first picks, IIRC.

Edited May 21, 20187 yr by KaiG

When I tried to respec my Watcher I completely lost the level one abilities......  not to mention the watcher skills.

I really wish they'd let us use the console. With how modable the game is I could add in Armor of Invulnerablity and a Staff of One-shot. It makes locking the console pretty silly and prevents us from fixing this sort of thing our selves.

Some Permanent buffs disappear as well whenever you retrain the Watcher. One that i have noticed is the "Effigy's Resentment" buff, this is a permanent buff that change depending on your PoE 1 Save, in my case it was the "Durance" version.

 

A bit of a shame since the watcher ability's can not be acquired anywhere else and the Effigy buff can only be acquired once, this leave you unable to retrain the watcher unless you want a disadvantage.

Greetings,

 

Thank you for taking the time and notifying us regarding this issue I do believe this to be fixed in the most recent patch 1.1. Should you have any additional questions let us know!

 

Cheers.