The one you are playing right now!
Yes, I admit it, I was out of my brain on THL yesterday at work… (just quietly, between you and me… I never really liked (past tense) The Hunting Lodge, didn’t think it would last more than a month… proof positive that Gnomes Gnow Gnothing!) I sure as hell hope work don’t start podcast testing, cause I would fail every test… I am constantly high on podcasts (If I can’t read ‘em, I might as well plug into ‘em)
So the purveyors of all things illicit (errr Hunter topics + more) were talking about what is in store for the next few years and they believe what I know I joked about in the past, that we will see WoW live as long as characters with 100 levels.
Which got me thinking, well something like thinking anyway.
Hero classes were going to be BIG!
We all had an idea on what the next Hero class would be after getting screwed over by Overpowered Death Knights, Healing Mages… Spell casting tanks, DPSing Priests… Ohh they do that already (Notice how the Shadow Priest stigma has gone over the years… tell someone you didn’t heal cause you were shadow 3 years ago and you got laughed out of the instance… if not the game).
Anyway, I digress. (I digress better than staying on topic, so hell, play to my strengths I say!)
So Cataclysm is on the horizon, or in the earth’s crust or something, and with it comes 5 new levels, 5 more points for our talent trees, but… no more talents on which to spend them.
Whats more, they are going to rejig the talents so they give us boosts in different ways, or remove some of the redundancy.
So the Point(s) of this post is…
So now we have 71 points to spend as we wish.
Soon we will have 76 points to spend how we wish.
What if come level 100, we have no more talents from which to choose from, just an additional 15 points…
How you you spend yours?
Where would you put your 91 points?
Would that make you a Hero class?
Gnomer and Out!
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At first I’m still looking forward to 5 more points. Especially for tanking. Then I noticed that they might not even be enough to make a proper template – something that has all I want in my tanking specs. I’ll probably need those 91 talent points to finish a talent spec without having to compromise.
Is that what a hero class is like? A perfect cookie cutter that everyone will have to adopt that leaves no room for improvisation any more?
On the other hand I am slightly worried. With 91 talent points it will finally be impossible to mock 0/0/71 unholy death knights. They will have to spend 20 points somewhere else. And that makes me wonder if we’ll finally have tank/healer paladins and druids – who somehow manage to combine all that is good and shiny about bear and tree into one single spec.
I think I need a cup of tea now. And a pickup group later to restore my faith.
Ha ha that’s a great idea. Never thought of it that way. Still, in a way we do have access to 71 x 2 talents today by way of Dual Spec.
Serious, true hybrid classes. Restokin for the win.