I may have completely changed my powers, but I'm still the same hero. Really.

There's a new City of Heroes/Villains Issue 11 feature up which examines respeccing, entitled "Respecs - Past and Present."

With the game nearing it’s fourth year of live operations, many high level characters have wanted to respec their characters to take advantage of new systems that we have added, and they have long since used their three Trial-earned Respecs, and any Freespecs they may have had. We knew that we always wanted a “repeatable” Respec...

Go check it out at the CoX website.