World of Warcraft: Dragonflight - Death Knight Talents and Abilities Preview

[PenguinChan]

Being forced to make hard decisions or choices depending on the content you’re doing / who you’re with is great. These complaints about having to pick up everything to be exactly how they are now are baffling. Great! You play like you have been. But that’s not the required path anymore which seems to upset some people.

Plus, forcing hard utility choices on classes vs giving them it baseline / easy choices will create diversity in how a class performs to its strengths and weaknesses — but allowing you to fill those holes or weaknesses with a vital talent choice if you so wish. Tbh I like that. Now how it performs in actual practice / gameplay is entirely different and we will see that with Alpha / Beta gameplay.

[Lilithvia]

Some are from WC2, so 25.

shouldn't that bear nearly 30 now?

[Ielenia]

Well what is the issue?

Did you really not read what I posted? My issue is literally detailed in the very first sentence of my post.

[Ealyssa]

Is that DK interrupt in the frost section?

No it's not ? Reading is hard...

[Utrrabbit]

So if I'm reading this right... they are essentially taking a lot of passives and actives and tossing them on the talent tree. So by the time we hit level 70 we'll be a lesser version of what we are in Shadowlands with fewer passives and actives both?

You are not, and neither is anyone else. Every person who thinks they will be nerfed is while frankly just wrong.

Everything in the talent trees is a buff since they are teturning old legion legendary powers and talents that had been removed.

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I knew it would end up like this, but seriously, you even have to waste a skillpoint for your fucking interrupt? Have they not learned a damn thing in the last 18 years? I expected to spend like 80 to 90% of skill points just to get the baseline back. I even expcted to end up with less overall stuff thanks spreading out the remaining talents in ways that makes them mutually exclusive, but.. fuck my life, they even took the absolute fucking basic from us that isn't flavor. I mean even the damn self-heal and defensive CD cost you points. Thank "god" I don't raid anymore, because I don't care to witness the new age of ultra-glass cannons that stroke their ego by off-loading everything to the rest of their team.

Your "baseline" is literally the first 3 or 4. What you consider baseline is not and never has been. What you say is baselind has been from borriwes power or the current talent tree. That is not baselins

[Skildar]

I just realized that dark succor is no more.
Unholy and Frost on live get a free Death Strike when giving the killing blow on an enemy. I liked that passive, I hope they will add it back to the tree.

[Cosmic Janitor]

Your "baseline" is literally the first 3 or 4. What you consider baseline is not and never has been. What you say is baselind has been from borriwes power or the current talent tree. That is not baselins

You literally have to buy back all your active skills you'd usually learn after level 1 for talent points. That is the current baseline.

[Boddhi]

Worry not, Blizz does listen meanwhile!

[Puxycat]

I think it is really time to get rid of that freak Combo point system for UH

[bbr]

I'm not sure what their plan is wit these, you can see talent trees still there.
The trees will still be fairly cookie cutter.

[Kithelle]

As suspected, they're basically taking classes that have been in the same dumbed down state since Legion and locking your baseline abilities behind talent "choices". This is just comical.

This is exactly what people wanted, a illusion of choice

[cocomen2]

As suspected, they're basically taking classes that have been in the same dumbed down state since Legion and locking your baseline abilities behind talent "choices". This is just comical.

yep, i hoped to see REWORK, some NEW talents, NEW mechanics, but nope its just same old shit just in form of tree.

[afishman]

I just hope they make Frost fun again

[Nerovar]

This is exactly what people wanted, a illusion of choice

I think people just wanted some new stuff. I don't know what you're on about.

[Kithelle]

I think people just wanted some new stuff. I don't know what you're on about.

People wanted old talents back because of all of the customization potential! But it is a illusion of choice because most people are just going to levitate to the best cookie cutter spec just like they did with the current system...just like they chose the best covenant.

There isn't really that much that is new either...most of these are either straight up stat buffs that were already baked into abilities, old talents, covenant abilities, or legendary powers. Blizz robbed the players and now they're eagerly lining up to buy their stuff back from the robbers!

[Nerovar]

People wanted old talents back because of all of the customization potential! But it is a illusion of choice because most people are just going to levitate to the best cookie cutter spec just like they did with the current system...just like they chose the best covenant.

There isn't really that much that is new either...most of these are either straight up stat buffs that were already baked into abilities, old talents, covenant abilities, or legendary powers. Blizz robbed the players and now they're eagerly lining up to buy their stuff back from the robbers!

I don't care about cookie cutter builds. Every element of choice can and will be optimised out of the game by some people. That does not mean you shouldn't have freedom of choice. This talent system already offers more freedom to adapt to certain situations (especially in PvP). What I do care about is the lack of creativity when it comes to the new talents and the blatant reuse of Legion class mechanics (for the third time in a row).