They could allow for free respec from your Preset spec A and Preset spec B, and then, when you wanted to change one of your presets, it would cost a bigger amount of gold than it does today, like 200g. 50g is already pretty cheap for what was probably the original intent behind the respec cost (not making people respec on a whim, never getting attached to any spec), whereas the intent probably not was to make you crappy for one part of the game without a respec (e.g. "all specs should be viable").
It would be pretty much like the old system, just having 2 primary specs, while keeping the "annoyance of respeccing", whenever you actually wanted to change those specs.
At least personally, I dont think it would do the game any good to open up for totally free respecs with no restrictions.
Not to get too much into that type of discussion (flame war potential!), but the argument of removing any barriers in a game just because its not fun, and a game should be fun 24/7, hardly does any good for a game like this. There has to be some sort of cost/reward ratio, sometimes the cost is gold, sometimes its time spent, and other times it might be difficulty. While giving stuff for free might be fun in the short run, its probably not a way to keep the game fun in the long run, and that is true for free respecs too.
Still, these days I somewhat hope they will allow for a free respec as the one described above, just to avoid the current rebalancing of the classes to fit the arena system, which has a generally negative impact on the game imo. Not all trees should be perfect for pvp and/or pve at the same time, and trying to balance them for both, probably just end up harming them for both.
Contrary to PSGarak, I think making all specs within 5% of each other for PvE and PvP will trivialize the talent system more than anything else. Talents should give access to very specialized and class defining stuff that will be pretty impossible to balance for different types of gameplay.
Then at least, easier respecs are to be preferred.
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Make it so you can freely switch between 2 specs provided they both have 31+ points in the same tree? Preserves 'character identity' and allows you to take pvp specific talents for bgs.
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That would only really benefit some classes and do nothing for others. Making it maybe even more unfair than it currently is.