The problem with respec vs. retiring is simple. There are a ton of shitlords high level builds out there currently because people don't want to retire. Instead they want to redo their stats at the cost of little to nothing, when all you have to do is retire and redo your build. Back when I started 31 was about the highest anyone ever went because of loom points, except for a few people who were already high level. Now 33 is the new 31 and most people don't even retire or want to retire their main because of the superior build it has over every person below them on the battle field. My advice, quit being cunts and retire or respec your character. Hell start a new character. The last thing we need are more people with maxed out builds that can change them at any given time because they simply feel like it.
I have 15 alts, some of my alts are high levels, some of them I haven't used for a long time. Most EU players are high levels.
When everyone is lvl 30 it just feels like you attend a race where max worth of your car is 5 000 $, while playing on a server where most players are is 32-34 feels like a race with max car-worth at 150 000$. I don't understand why your will should make people retire and get back to boring 30. Builds are superbasic there, no room for fun, every skillpoint has to be spent carefully not to make you UP, not to mention that 1-25 is most boring thing ever. I retired over 30 times and I'm fucking fed up with this. Respeccing is not an option. Go throw away over 80M exp yourself.
Game is vapid and needs a refresher. I respect my time and don't feel like spending few hundreds of hours on something that I have a temporary flavour about
Why must there be a cooldown because of strategus?
For castle-defences cav players would respec to infantry or other stuff and people would cry about it.