I do in some ways, but I don't in others. I do miss how much control you had to custom-make your toon exactly how you wanted for your playstyle (pre-Cata). If you wanted a really good questing/solo spec, you could do it. If you wanted to experiment with certain talents and set bonuses, etc. you had the freedom to try it out any which way you wanted. Not all were viable, but, it was fun coming up with unique ways to spec your toon.
What I don't miss are the cookie-cutter Elitist Jerks specs that you were essentially forced to use, lest you were "doing it wrong" and subsequently kicked from every dungeon you entered. Once I tried to spec my sub rogue into extra haste from gear by knocking a point of off Coup de Grace and taking 3/3 Precision so I could get rid of some hit and reforge it to Haste. I got screamed down and flamed and kicked like you wouldn't believe, just for reshuffling one single point of my spec.
Honestly I don't think it's really changed much now in Mists, there's still talents you basically have t take in order to maximize your character, difference is that you have less options in customizing it for things other than end-game content, which I think reveals the true flaw in Blizzard's plan: They make EVERYTHING about zerging to max-level then doing instances to get gear. Only thing that matters is gear gear gear gear gear raids raids raids gear gear gear...They've replaced the adventure and hugeness of the game with just chasing slightly upgraded gear.
Back in WotLK the two Holy Paladin specs where rather different tbh. They used different spells, different stat priorities, had a different playstyle, etc. Aka, they were really different and both viable back in the day.
Until something like that is done with the current talents, I prefer the style talents we had back in WotLK over what is currently in place.
I actually prefer the new talent system (and the way we have more spells automatically when choosing your spec), but feel they should expand the number of talents you get. 6 talent choices seems too few. I think 10 or more talents would feel more rewarding. OR they can add another section where you choose passive bonuses every X number of levels.
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A lot of talents i dont miss. But some that got rolled into specs I do. For instance, I wish ebon plague became a DK takent instead of only for unholy.
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Yes and no, There were some really useless talents in the talent trees that was just there because they were needed, and my biggest problem with the old tree was the fact that there was not really any choice, if you wanted to do good you needed a specific build or else you could just quit, the new tree gives more options in one way but i dont like that you gain a talent every 15 lvl, it makes leveling feel less rewarding, even tho the old tree was pretty bad at sometimes atleas it felt more rewarding to level up then.
what the fuck is wrong with people? the new talent system is amazing, you have talents to each situation for pve/pvp/whatever... the old talent were useless as fuck the only funny thing about them was when classes like mage could play fire-frost with funny shit but still useless stuff
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No. And those who do are fooling themselves into believing that that talent system gave them choices in play style. You had 2 choices back then, check your best possible spec online(and even then you only needed to check it when new patches came out) or suck.
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Yes I miss it but to be honest it never really lived up to its potential. In TBC the top tier talents became tree defining for the most part so you were locked in to taking a bunch of stuff just because. Rogues probably had the best of it in vanilla with cold blood/backstab crit/prep or 22/8/21 iirc. They picked up a play style defining talent for each tree. I don't really remember any other class that had something so worth it.
No I do not miss the old talent system, and the reason for that is simple. You didn't have more choice with the old system, you actually had less. Yes, there were more talents, but you had to spend almost all of your talent points in "mandatory" talents, unless you wanted to play a gimped spec.
The fact is that you have more choice now even though there are less talents/points since all of those "mandatory" talents that everyone had to have before is now a part of the spec instead of a talent, which means that you will get those without spending points.
I am very happy with MoP talents and i look toward them being refined in the next Expansion.
While leveling is less fun due to talent points being awarded once every 15(?) levels, at maximum level i find the MoP design FAR more fun than the old talents.
I would also like to point out that blizzard has been saying since WotLK beta ending that they are very unhappy with the "talent tree" design, but were still unsure of how to change them.
So just you folks know, our dear blizzard has been feeling really negative about the old "Talent Tree" concept ever since WotLK beta was nearing it's end.
So far blizzard is really happy with the design of MoP talents, and are extremely UNlikely to introduce any big changes.
Yes. But not because it was so good, I just really really hate this new one. It is by far the worst "talent" system I've seen in any rpg or mmo - ffs this is WoW and Blizzard... this talent system is like a god awful joke, an embarressment.
P.S. looking back and seeing countless posts saying the new talent system is amazing. *cries*
Well at least I understand the sub drop - the semi-retarded community - and the direction the game is taking now.
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Yes, this system lacks the depth. Also the talent points were something to look forward to, even if putting one into something entirely useless it felt like I was improving my character somehow.
defo... I used to love messing with talents just because I could. cata wasn't too bad but now the talent system sucks balls, its far too generic boring as fukk.
but yea the old 71 point trees were mega fun to play round with. its whats wrong with wow the last 2 years. all dumbed down far too much so even a monkey smoking weed could play it.
Cataclysm Talent Tree? Nope
The Oldschool Talent Trees: Absolutely.
Absolutely. I really liked having the different options. Not to mention there is now less to look forward to when leveling. I used to love seeing the ding and picking talents throughout the process
Nope. I don't miss it. People back then didn't know how to spec properly and hell, even now with just 6 talents people STILL don't know how spec properly.
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