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New Talent Trees to offer more customization than ever

Posted by Joakim "Rythian" Hellstrand 7 months ago

The new talent trees, revealed for Mists of Pandaria at Blizzcon 2011, is set to offer more customization than ever. Taking a page out of the research tree in StarCraft 2's single-player campaign, the new system works quite differently than the old ones.

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New Talent Trees

Players will be able to choose a specialization at level 10.
This gives them a new spec ability and opening up new options within that spec.
There will be a single talent tree per class in which players will earn talents every 15 levels.
Each talent opens up one of three different available options within the tree for further specialization within the chosen spec.
No mandatory talents or cookie cutter specs.
Starting with Mists of Pandaria, players will no longer spend talent points.
For each set of three talents players unlock, they will get to choose one talent to activate, for a total of six active talents at level 90.
A big benefit of removing talent points is that it allows us to let players "re-talent" with more flexibility.
Talent ranks have been completely removed.
Additional spec abilities will become available as characters levels. Some of these may be existing talents, while others may be older core abilities that are more situational.
After players have activated their talents, they won't be completely locked into their choices as they are now.
Talents can be changed out when switching specs, as well as when running dungeons, raids, and battlegrounds.
The idea is to make players choose from three talents. For example, Throwdown would be a crowd control ability any spec warrior could get; however, it would have two other choices to get that also CC.
You will access stuff you never could before and create new combinations. It's a mix-and-match system at the crux of it.

Wowhead has already gotten their talent tree calculator ready, so give it a shot in the link below.

Links

Wowheadnews - Talent Overview

Wowhead - Talent Calculator

comments

pearly2 7 months ago

these improvements to the talents tree and monks are the only interesting things about the new xpac :/

also, its such a shame that this part of gosugamers is dead, wow is still a very good game.