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    Quote Originally Posted by Nathanyel View Post
    Don't think too much about the runes themselves, they're just a workaround to teach a Classic character a new ability and passive effects. In modern WoW they can just straight up add 4th specs, with multiple themed abilities and talents.
    Assuming Hero Talents are going to stay after TWW, it is highely unlikely that we will actually see 4th specs, and given the precedent with rogue/warlock tanks and mage healer in SoD with a simple rune (revamp for the glyph system perhaps?), seems more plausible then betting on 4th specs, that are a bit at odds with hero talents later on.
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    I mean, trying to worm out of the way it's the WORLDSOUL saga... yah. It's Azeroth reaching out, not some light fairy.
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    So... chances of getting the news post today are slimming down, eh?
    Likely we will get it tomorrow if at all?
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    Btw, TWW alpha will already include items and such from 10.2.7 right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ImTheMizAwesome View Post
    Btw, TWW alpha will already include items and such from 10.2.7 right?
    Not necessarily. It could easily be based on an earlier version of WoW like 10.2.5, or even 10.2. Even more so if 10.2.7 has not been on the PTR a while.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Enrif View Post
    Assuming Hero Talents are going to stay after TWW, it is highely unlikely that we will actually see 4th specs, and given the precedent with rogue/warlock tanks and mage healer in SoD with a simple rune (revamp for the glyph system perhaps?), seems more plausible then betting on 4th specs, that are a bit at odds with hero talents later on.
    That is assuming Hero Talents will stay rigid after TWW. Ignoring the balancing nightmare, there could be additional Hero Talents in MN or TLT. Or the new specs get "added" to existing trees.
    And runes like in SoD would run into the same problem, turning one spec with two specific Hero Talent trees into a different role.

    Overall, entirely new specs make more sense, but will of course take time, and may be delayed if we get a new class in 12.0 or 13.0
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    Honestly they should stop being so secretive about 10.2.7 and reveal it, drop alpha right after, and then test 10.2.7.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nathanyel View Post
    That is assuming Hero Talents will stay rigid after TWW. Ignoring the balancing nightmare, there could be additional Hero Talents in MN or TLT. Or the new specs get "added" to existing trees.
    And runes like in SoD would run into the same problem, turning one spec with two specific Hero Talent trees into a different role.

    Overall, entirely new specs make more sense, but will of course take time, and may be delayed if we get a new class in 12.0 or 13.0
    Honestly they should do an expansion without any major class changes and see what happens.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Enrif View Post
    Assuming Hero Talents are going to stay after TWW, it is highely unlikely that we will actually see 4th specs, and given the precedent with rogue/warlock tanks and mage healer in SoD with a simple rune (revamp for the glyph system perhaps?), seems more plausible then betting on 4th specs, that are a bit at odds with hero talents later on.
    Hero Talents are likely going to stay around for the entire trilogy. After the trilogy we will probably see yet another redesign of the class system and I assume elements of everything they'd have built up till then will remain.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nathanyel View Post
    That is assuming Hero Talents will stay rigid after TWW. Ignoring the balancing nightmare, there could be additional Hero Talents in MN or TLT. Or the new specs get "added" to existing trees.
    And runes like in SoD would run into the same problem, turning one spec with two specific Hero Talent trees into a different role.

    Overall, entirely new specs make more sense, but will of course take time, and may be delayed if we get a new class in 12.0 or 13.0
    There are many assumption and nothing we can say for sure. for all we know, they could add a rune like system for hero talents instead of specs. Like, the trickster hero talents for rogue are strange, in that it wants to use defensives. But what if it could be turned to a tank hero talent for rogues? This is also an option. The base spec stays the same, and the hero talents covers all the role specific powers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nymrohd View Post
    Hero Talents are likely going to stay around for the entire trilogy. After the trilogy we will probably see yet another redesign of the class system and I assume elements of everything they'd have built up till then will remain.
    i'm in the same boat. I wouldn't even mind a total overhaul of the class system after the WSS.
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    I mean, trying to worm out of the way it's the WORLDSOUL saga... yah. It's Azeroth reaching out, not some light fairy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Enrif View Post
    i'm in the same boat. I wouldn't even mind a total overhaul of the class system after the WSS.
    Tbh some of the things I'd want aren't really possible in the current system (more racial archetypes) so I wouldn't mind it at all either.

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    I still hope Hero Talents are gonna stay horizontal rather than vertical.

    Add new ones, but leave the old ones the same. Makes the most sense, and there is no power bloat. That's how Guild Wars 2 does it, essentially.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Makorus View Post
    I still hope Hero Talents are gonna stay horizontal rather than vertical.

    Add new ones, but leave the old ones the same. Makes the most sense, and there is no power bloat. That's how Guild Wars 2 does it, essentially.
    It is not sustainable.

    Just in TWW they are adding 39 Hero Talent Trees and over 450 talents (without the basic talent trees).

    We have discussed this already. At some point it is obvious that they will have to revamp the system and star anew.

    We will soon get more information about them. As a casual player I do not mind them too much, but I think that they should have been only cosmetic. In their current version they will cause problems.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Darkarath View Post
    We will soon get more information about them. As a casual player I do not mind them too much, but I think that they should have been only cosmetic. In their current version they will cause problems.
    But would you have been okay with classes remaining more or less the same for two expansions?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Makorus View Post
    I still hope Hero Talents are gonna stay horizontal rather than vertical.

    Add new ones, but leave the old ones the same. Makes the most sense, and there is no power bloat. That's how Guild Wars 2 does it, essentially.
    This would make the most sense. Plus, since they start with a set of choices for each existing spec, I think they will add new ones periodically during the Saga in patches, just so people won't expect a whole set of three every expansion: For example, by the end of The Last Titan each class has six hero talent kits.
    Quote Originally Posted by Darkarath View Post
    It is not sustainable.

    Just in TWW they are adding 39 Hero Talent Trees and over 450 talents (without the basic talent trees).

    We have discussed this already. At some point it is obvious that they will have to revamp the system and star anew.

    We will soon get more information about them. As a casual player I do not mind them too much, but I think that they should have been only cosmetic. In their current version they will cause problems.
    Simple solution: Don't add a whole set of new ones every expansion. Maybe just one per expansion. There may not be one for your preferred spec but you'll still get one your class has access to. (That especially isn't so overwhelming when some of the hero trees are just "the exact same rotation but with mounted combat" or "the exact same rotation but with uncontrollable pets")

    Clearly they'll come up with something new at the end of the Saga but that's 5+ years away. They don't need to have a plan for that right now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cheezits View Post
    But would you have been okay with classes remaining more or less the same for two expansions?
    Absolutely.

    Current talent trees have been iterated upon and mostly they are in a good place. Keep working on them and give cosmetic options and I would be happy.

    What they should do is PvP only skills, maybe with small talent trees, completely separated of their PvE versions. Plunderstorm has shown them what path they have to follow for PvP.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Darkarath View Post
    It is not sustainable.

    Just in TWW they are adding 39 Hero Talent Trees and over 450 talents (without the basic talent trees).

    We have discussed this already. At some point it is obvious that they will have to revamp the system and star anew.

    We will soon get more information about them. As a casual player I do not mind them too much, but I think that they should have been only cosmetic. In their current version they will cause problems.
    Most hero talent trees can be worked into the existing tree pretty easily. I mean marksman has baseline talents that feel more like dark ranger than the dark ranger tree.
    For the majority that we have seen they could be summarized in a new capstone plus one or two talents later down the line.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cheezits View Post
    Honestly they should stop being so secretive about 10.2.7 and reveal it, drop alpha right after, and then test 10.2.7.
    No one is secretive about 10.2.7. They treat it as every patch beside 10.2.6.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dracullus View Post
    No one is secretive about 10.2.7. They treat it as every patch beside 10.2.6.
    I would hope so. But we still haven't heard anything about 10.2.7 in 3 weeks. Every other patch in Dragonflight was on the ptr within 2 weeks of the previous patch going live.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ersula View Post
    I would hope so. But we still haven't heard anything about 10.2.7 in 3 weeks. Every other patch in Dragonflight was on the ptr within 2 weeks of the previous patch going live.
    Yeah, but 10.2.6 is 2-part patch and most likely date for 10.2.7 is June, not May, so time for PTR is around this month. To be honest I don't get why S4 wasn't called 10.2.7 and Dark Heart 10.2.8.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darkarath View Post
    Current talent trees have been iterated upon and mostly they are in a good place..
    Not even close. Non demo warlock is a nightmare. I'm sure there are others. Hero talents are a train wreck and they're building off spec trees that are terrible in some cases.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vexilius View Post
    Not even close. Non demo warlock is a nightmare. I'm sure there are others. Hero talents are a train wreck and they're building off spec trees that are terrible in some cases.
    We haven't even gotten to play them yet. I've never seen such purely theoretical panic from the fanbase before.

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