Will we have new talents in Midnight or later?

[Tech614]

They will add new hero talents which are passives that just change the way your active abilities work. They will continue to revamp existing talent trees to keep them fresh. They are absolutely not going to add a new tier of talents in the tree though if that's what you're asking, it would be a nightmare to balance when they're still trying to perfect the current trees.

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i dont think either of the two would actualy break the lore, healing through necromancy/vampirism is not that far fetched, and ilidan in w3 while transformed was ranged...

Ranged Illidan spammed shadow blast, flame burst and summoned demons. If that's the playstyle you want, it's already offered: Warlock. An actual ranged DH spec would have to play nothing like that, would revolve around throwing glaives and even at that point it probably feels too much like a hunter for it to be worth their time.

[deenman]

i would go different way if it was up to me and have only two specs per class, but each would split into two subspecs but not fully, by that i mean you could have talents in both subspecs just not all the way
druid is easier to demonstrate, "shapeshifter" spec split into feral and guardian, while "naturalist" would split into balance and resto
would have potential to go for new things like warlock could have spelcaster spliting into affi and destro and demonology split into mass summoning (current demo), and enhancing himself with demonic abilities, allowing him to tank

kinda like last epoch?where you can spec in to the others but not all the way

[Fantazma]

Or are we at the point, where we go "screw the lore, anything goes...so..ranged DH....Healer DK...bring it on?

In another thread I proposed a opitional server called "Madness Realm" where your character could do everything "or almost everything". Imagine the option of adding 5 more skills from other classes to your class. I've thought a lot about this. My Hunter MM Dark Ranger (BG pug specialist) would definitely get the Rogue's perma-stealth, the Rogue's Vanish, the DH's Fel Rush, the Mage's Blink and the Warlock's Fear. You could even kill me but you'll have to find me and after you find me you'll have to catch up with me. haha

[FossilFree]

I'm thinking they will add more hero talent choices. If they can give each spec two hero talent choices in a single expansion, like they did in TWW, then they could easily double that in Midnight to four choices for each spec. Meaning just adding one more choice each seems highly plausible to me, since that's only half the work they did in TWW.

[Fantazma]

You're mistakenly conflating one thing with another unrelated thing.

The 'one button' thing only does a basic rotation and is an accessibility/new player option, it does not work optimally for heals and tanks at all (per Blizzard).

It isn't the beginning of the end for players who want to play the regular way.

The creation of the "one button" comes to reduce the entropy of skills and make things easier and more accessible for Generation Z and Alpha (who love things that are easy). I find it difficult that the choice to make the gameplay easier (less complexity) can go hand in hand with the choice to create more talents (more complexity). It's either one thing or the other! I like the idea I read here that suggests putting the essential talents in the spellbook as base skills and then we will have space for new things in the class and spec trees.

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At the end of the Soul Saga, if things are more or less like the image below, that will be fine with me.

[Kathranis]

My assumption would be that Midnight and The Last Titan will take us to level 90 and then 100, with the Hero Specs growing and getting adjusted.

I think we'll probably see the hero specs drill further into the hero fantasy, maybe with more transformed skills and maybe choice nodes or active capstone abilities.

They might also scrap or rework some of the existing hero specs that failed to deliver on fantasies that players want.

Then, after the Worldsoul Saga, they'll do a level squish back to 60, compress the existing talents down, bake hero talents into the core leveling experience, and add a new row of talents for levels 60-70. Maybe then they'll do new specs for every class or something.

[Elanore Maroth]

Yes, we will have new talents in Midnight or later. They will make slight adjustments each expansion, but I am not expecting a giant overhaul in Midnight.

[Lolites]

kinda like last epoch?where you can spec in to the others but not all the way

havent played last epoch since its was like first week of beta so dont know

kinda like in vanila, you could go all way into one with few points in other trees, or you could go part of the way in each

[Ereb]

they need to grow a pair and add another spec to every class

Very much this! Grow some balls Blizzard give every spec (except druid) another talent spec so they all have 4. Fuck it give DHs 2 new specs what!!

[FAILoZOFF]

MoP-style talents were the best imo

[deenman]

MoP-style talents were the best imo

that may literaly be the most unpopular opinion lol,not only was it the worst talent style,but even in its own it was the worst version,wod and legion one atleast being more unique to a spec,mop if im not remembering wrong was basicaly the same for all specs

[FAILoZOFF]

that may literaly be the most unpopular opinion lol,not only was it the worst talent style,but even in its own it was the worst version,wod and legion one atleast being more unique to a spec,mop if im not remembering wrong was basicaly the same for all specs

That's more than fine