You get a number of respec points along with passive points (at a 2 respec per 1 passive) for some quests, but there's still no full respec option... Well, there actually is one way to get a full respec. If you have an existing character and they come out with a big patch (like this one) you'll be given a free respec on your passives (in case your build just got nerfed all to hell). But yeah, PoE is still mostly about "fucked up that toon? roll another".
But on the plus side, they completely rewrote their netcode, so now if you have decent internet you can play lockstep with the server, so no desync. And even if you have to play predictive still, they reduced the number of code paths that can cause desync a huge amount (most of that came from rewriting stuff to work with lockstep).