The good times of character customization & non-rng progression, professions matter

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[Kynario]

I do miss gems and gem socketing (and their associated bonuses).

The glyph system in WoTLK was great too

But you’re posting in the Vanilla sub-forum and these are all post-Vanilla changes, haha!

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WoTLK, fuck off!

[Hastis]

I loved old talent tree it was good feeling when you could spend points after lvl up but now you get it every 15 lvl ...

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vanilla tbc and wotlk are all on the same boat for me! good times

[Xoul]

To be fair, Glyphs were just the same as zerite but easier to get and Tiersets were just frustrating when they didn't drop. Talents tho..

[Echocho]

Character customization and deterministic loot in a RPG? Surely you can't be serious

[Kralljin]

Literally everything depicted there comes from BC or Wotlk.

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good times, good times

[Kithelle]

Nothing says character customization like if you didn't choose the right glyphs, gems, and talents you performed sub-par....no nothing like live WoW

[Ryzeth]

Literally everything depicted there comes from BC or Wotlk.

Tiersets and talent trees were both in vanilla.

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The most interesting thing about this thread, which is originally from reddit, is the most upvoted answer.
I think any player should read it.

[Kithelle]

Tiersets and talent trees were both in vanilla.

So? This is a forum about Vanilla and the majority of pictures are from BC or WotLK.

[Orby]

I do wonder if the old talent trees were around today how ridiculous it would look lol. Up there with Path of Exile in just outrageous talent trees :P

[Kralljin]

Tiersets and talent trees were both in vanilla.

That's like saying Items and abilities also in Vanilla.

I mean if you want to make a point how better the previous system was, at least pick screenshots from stuff from Vanilla, as this is the vanilla forum.

[Kithelle]

I do wonder if the old talent trees were around today how ridiculous it would look lol. Up there with Path of Exile in just outrageous talent trees :P

Having what...a 110 points to spend...would be pretty big trees lol

[Ryzeth]

So? This is a forum about Vanilla and the majority of pictures are from BC or WotLK.

1/2 is not a majority. That's an equal spread.

That's like saying Items and abilities also in Vanilla.

I mean if you want to make a point how better the previous system was, at least pick screenshots from stuff from Vanilla, as this is the vanilla forum.

When the systems are functionally the same, why does it matter what period the screenshots are from?

[Armourboy]

Having what...a 110 points to spend...would be pretty big trees lol

Nah they would just compress it like they did in Cata.

[alt-ithist]

1/2 is not a majority. That's an equal spread.

It’s not half, it’s 100%. None of those pics are from vanilla. Vanilla talents trees were horrible, they did better with them in BC and better yet in wrath ie no more + wand damage.

Also sets were also awful in vanilla. They either only Catered to one spec of your class or worst yet, they very poorly itemize to all of them (looking at you druid sets) so you were better off avoiding them. I still remember the smarter Druid players letting the noobs waste their DKP on sets while they saved theirs for cloth or rogue gear.

[CasualFilth]

Admit it, you took this from Reddit OP, didn't you?