I like good art, especially in video games I’m playing. One of the reason I was missing old talent trees is because of the background art. With talents revamp we have this art back and I mostly love it. However, I’ve noticed there are some races appearing more than others and did a little analysis.
The most dominating races are Blood Elves (on 8 backgrounds) and Humans (6 backgrounds). And races such as Undead, Gnomes, Dwarves, Taurens, Pandas, Trolls appear only on 1 background. As I like playing taurens, I’d like to see this race more often. This applies to other ones as well.
Just a thought I had recently and wanted to share.
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Interesting topic. I counted them (based on Wowhead’s talent calculator) and did not come up with the same numbers. Some of them are subject to interpretation, especially blue-eyed elves.
Death Knight
Blood: Human
Frost: Dragon (presumably Sindragosa)
Unholy: Undead. Sickly green skin. If this were merely a “DK effect”, then Blood would have it too.
Demon Hunter
Havoc: Blood Elf
Vengeance: Night Elf
Druid
All specs have their shapeshift here, cannot attribute them to any race, maybe some shapeshift expert can
Evoker
2x Dracthyr
Hunter
Beast Mastery: Mok’nathal (Rexxar)
Marksmanship: High Elf (might be supposed to be one of the Windrunners)
Survival: Troll
Mage
Arcane: High Elf
Fire: Cannot say for certain - orange eyes, but let’s say Blood Elf.
Frost: Human
Monk
3x Pandaren
Paladin
Holy: Draenei
Protection: Dwarf
Retribution: Blood Elf
Priest
Discipline: Dwarf
Holy: Human
Shadow: Draenei
Rogue
Assassination: Undead
Outlaw: Unknown, maybe the head to body ratio suggests a short race?
Subtlety: Green eyes like a Blood Elf, but pink skin and teal hair say Night Elf, so I’m gonna go with the latter
Shaman
Elemental: Orc
Enhancement: Orc
Restoration: Draenei
Warlock
Affliction: Worgen
Demonology: Gnome
Destruction: Gnome
Warrior
Arms: Orc
Fury: Night Elf
Protection: Probably Human
This leads to the following scoreboard…
Playable races
Human: 4
Blood Elf: 3
Draenei: 3
Night Elf: 3
Orc: 3
Pandaren: 3
Dracthyr: 2
Dwarf: 2
Gnome: 2
Undead: 2
Troll: 1
Worgen: 1
Unplayable races
High Elf: 2 (add these to the Blood Elf count if you feel blue eyed human-skinned elf = still Blood Elf)
Mok’nathal: 1
Undead-dragon-whose-name-is-probably-Sindragosa: 1
Others
Unknown: 5 (druid specs and Outlaw)
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Thats different then in game though. Its
Beast Mastery- big pink dinosaur
MM-Orc
Survival-Rexxar
maybe OP is counting actual talent screens?
Argh, it’s the exact same ingame and on Wowhead for my DK, so I didn’t even think it would be different for other classes 
my bad then.
I think wowhead has outdated art. The ones I’ve used I took from icy-veins and found they are in line with what I see in game.
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Now that it’s mentioned… is it possible to get the old talent backgrounds as wallpapers? I sort of wish to get the Affli and Shadow trees to use for either phone or PC.
The closest I’ve found - https www mmo-champion com/threads/2487788-Talent-tree-artwork
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