azwing wrote:
I kind of see the new talent system as Blizzard waving a white flag. They are giving up trying to balance talent trees. I see the new talent system as very underwhelming. Leveling a toon, getting a talent point every other level is something to look forward to and think about. Every 15 levels? Not so much.
I think their point about cookie cutter is pretty moot, too. Any tree with options will end up having the optimum path. Hence the cookie cutter. It doesn't matter if the tree has multiple tiers and multiple possibilities, or four tiers with three options...number crunchers will figure out the optimum. If the new talents are not going to have an effect on performance, then what's the point? Isn't that what talents are for?
From what I understand and have read on the new talent system, it seems to make sense to me. I look at it this way; they're just baking in the cookie-cutter spec and leaving the "talents" for stuff that has no real bearing on numbers.
Looking forward to putting a point in exactly where EJ has said to put it isn't exactly as enthralling to me as to you I guess.
And if there's no optimum, then there's nothing for number crunchers to figure out. If all that's left of the talent trees is what has currently been relegated to "floater points" then I don't honestly see how it matters other than EJ doesn't need to figure out a spec because Blizz already did it, and the players don't have to go research it because there's nothing to research.
People can whine about it killing options or removing individual choice or whatever but honestly, isn't everybody who's doing decently well using the same spec anyway? And maybe a few of those people who aren't doing so well will do better and thus be happier with the game if they can just play without using a number of outside sources.
I always thought the trees were a bit of a tease anyway since there are invariably either things I think "why would anybody take that ever" or "man if I had more points that'd be nice" but nobody ever takes them because there are better producing talents.