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How Much Does It Cost to Respec in Classic WoW?

Classic Era talent resets are commonly reported to start at 1 gold and rise by 5 gold per reset to 50 gold. The decay minimum is disputed, so check your class trainer’s displayed price.
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In the commonly documented WoW Classic Era rules, a talent reset starts at 1 gold, the second costs 5 gold, and later resets rise by 5 gold each until the fee reaches 50 gold. The cost may fall after a period without resetting talents, but the reported minimum is disputed. Check the fee shown by your class trainer before you confirm.

Classic Era respec costs

The schedule most often reported for Classic Era is:

Reset Commonly reported cost
First 1 gold
Second 5 gold
Third 10 gold
Fourth 15 gold
Later resets Increases by 5 gold per reset
Maximum 50 gold

This schedule comes from a guide excerpt reproduced in a Blizzard forum thread, rather than a current official price table. That excerpt says the fee is independent of character level and the number of talent points reset.

Does the cost go down over time?

The guide excerpt says the fee falls by 5 gold for each month without a reset, to a minimum of 15 gold. Players in a related forum discussion report a 10-gold minimum instead. The available evidence does not resolve that disagreement, so do not count on a specific floor.

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How to check your character’s fee

  1. Visit a class trainer in the version and realm where you play.
  2. Open the talent-reset or unlearning service and read the displayed cost.
  3. Confirm only if you are ready to pay that amount.

The Classic Era API reference documents a trainer-service cost query, GetTrainerServiceCost, which returns trainer service costs in copper. It does not publish the respec schedule; the in-game trainer display is the practical check.

Which version of Classic WoW does this apply to?

“Classic WoW” covers more than one game version and realm ruleset. The amounts above describe the commonly reported Classic Era schedule; the available sources do not establish that it applies unchanged to every current Classic version. Check the trainer fee in the version you play.

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