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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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
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.
Worry not, Blizz does listen meanwhile!
I think it is really time to get rid of that freak Combo point system for UH
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.
I just hope they make Frost fun again
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).
The absolute state of Warcraft lore in 2021:
Kyrians: We need to keep chucking people into the Maw because it's our job.
Also Kyrians: Why is the Maw growing stronger despite all our efforts?