Shifting Perspectives: Balance druid talents and the illusion of choice

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3-11-2011 @ 4:27PM

The Dewd said...

I wish they had chosen #1. I think they want to do that. They keep indicating that they'd like us to be able to making meaningful choices with our trees (though the EJ analysis will, of course, result in a "best" build).

The problem with #2 (the other problem, that is) is that it's never "oh, I have 10 talent points play with". It's "well, I guess I need to put a couple of points in this tier to get to the next one" a few times and then you have, maybe, 2-4 points to play with at the end.

Druids might not be the best example because we have no real choice for our secondary tree. If you don't pvp, you're either Balance/Resto, Resto/Balance, or Feral/Resto due to talent synergies. I'd almost rather they shrink the trees some more and make Feral/Balance or Balance/Feral an interesting choice because of added utility.

TL;DR: Blizz really needs to come up with some more interesting choices.

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