I would like a heirloom respec too. Maybe chadz could implement a heirloom respec you can actually buy. Like reset a weapon for 5K gold and get the heirlooms back.
Also had another idea before which would make retirement kind of useless but much better for newcomers, and less grind for everybody.
Make weapons upgradeable by buying heirlooms.
Or let us buy +1,+2,+3 weapons with incrementing costs, like +1 2x price, +2 4xprice, +3 6xprice
Some people might see this as a disadvantage to the nature of crpg, but I think the generation system is more like a mount&blade thing than character development. We can still build characters with different builds and respec them with retirement and heirloom respec.
I very liked the fact in dark age of camelot to swap my character builds from time to time to have some diversity other than pulling another character to max level.