face it, there was always and there always will be only 1 direction a talent tree of any kind can go. wrong talent reduce performance and kick from raids.
but now, we are going back to the overly-complex talent tree. everyone, again, will go the the guides on wowhead or icyveins. and everyone, again, will have the exact same talents with the same amount of points in them.
jee, thanks alot blizzard for making our life harder for absolutely no reason…
as far as im concered, just remove talent tree alltogether, at the end of the day, its just cosmetics anyway.
dont worry, it wont take too long before you will realize making alts is hell because you need to level up to get like 1% boost, before you can get the thing you actually want.
and im certain you will LOVE IT, when you mates will tell you “you must change your tree because of lacking performance”.
so you will spend extra time on guides, and take everything i will take and the rest aswell.
I don’t think they will be talent trees in the traditional sense. there’s probably not much difference that the three choices we have at the moment. It feels like a prune looking at the druid ones.
What will be interesting is how they expand it in 11.x.
Of course they do. They’re talents… but just labelled as “Legendary” or “Conduit”. They’re still just talents though. It’s still part of the choice when making your build.
You just have to farm for them and they’re not in a Tree… well soon they will be.
i was forced to change, because at the time we cleared all the latest raids early. i couldnt hold the group back. and they wouldnt let me.
so i changed talents.
Its the current talent trees but due to be much more convoluted, people always end up using 3rd party to meta copy anyway so what’s this going to change other than be an inconvenience
The reason why the talent trees are needed is because if you take them out, to fill the void left by them you need borrowed power systems. Blizzard, Ion I think, said so themselves - in WoD they found out they had gutted the game and there was basically nothing to do. This is why garrisons were the way they were. So to solve this, in Legion they added Artifact Weapons to compensate for the lack of talent trees.
This is simply a fact, that I’ve been saying for ages, even before SL came out.
And that is the point of talent trees. Now your character will be contained within your talent tree. You won’t need to farm renown, conduits, azerite power, or have to farm last season’s raid to get azerite essences which were essential to your character. All of those awful systems exist because there are no talent trees.
the reason all of these systems exist is because it forces players who feel the need to min/max to play over-time. when these players play so much, they more likely to buy tokens or other stuff from the in-game shop, which covers (and more) for the lack of players in wow.
Raiders are a small percentage of the players in the game, and the serious ones will always follow the cookie cutter builds anyway, most other players won’t care. I bet m+ players will mostly go by your score, and if you choose the PUG life instead of making friends or finding a community it’s no one else’s fault anyway.
And casual players like me, which some people seem to think they don’t matter, definitely don’t care about the meta. I’m not pushing any hard content, so it’s just a stylistic choice for me.