The Daily Quest: I got your talents right here
by Anne Stickney 
Oct 26th 2011 at 9:00PM
WoW Insider's on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative, and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere.
I remember my first experience with talent points back in vanilla. I'd just hit level 42 or so, and the buddy I was leveling with asked me what tree I'd put my talent points into. Somewhat bewildered, I asked, "What are talent points?" ... turns out all those messages when I dinged weren't just reminders that I was even more talented and awesome than previously before.
In Mists of Pandaria, we can look forward to a radically different re-envisioning of the talent trees -- or should I just say talents in general, since we won't have trees anymore? Regardless, here are a few posts from around the blogosphere concerning the upcoming new talents.
I remember my first experience with talent points back in vanilla. I'd just hit level 42 or so, and the buddy I was leveling with asked me what tree I'd put my talent points into. Somewhat bewildered, I asked, "What are talent points?" ... turns out all those messages when I dinged weren't just reminders that I was even more talented and awesome than previously before.
In Mists of Pandaria, we can look forward to a radically different re-envisioning of the talent trees -- or should I just say talents in general, since we won't have trees anymore? Regardless, here are a few posts from around the blogosphere concerning the upcoming new talents.
- MMO Melting Pot has an awesome roundup of all the new talents presented at BlizzCon, in handy textual form.
- The Noisy Rogue likes the look of the new talent system, and fills us in on why it's a good thing.
- Piercing Shots gives us a brief overview of the new talent system, then dives into some discussion on hunter talents.
- Fel Concentration has a delightfully in-depth look at the new warlock talents, specifically the affliction tree.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
gewalt Oct 26th 2011 9:11PM
I got my warrior up to level 40 before someone told me you could refund your talent points.
I thought it was like diablo where once you spent it, it was saved forever, so I was afraid to spend them at all until I was sure.
gewalt Oct 26th 2011 9:20PM
this was of course, way back in classic...
Drakkenfyre Oct 26th 2011 9:51PM
I always loved people bitching about how expensive respec'ing was, and how "dual-spec'ing was too limited", and I would tell them be glad we can even respec. Basically, if you screwed up, the conversation with Blizzard went like this.
"Help, I accidentally placed a talent point in the wrong place, how do I fix it, and redo them?"
"Reroll."
LynMars Oct 26th 2011 9:53PM
Oh the things we didn't know back then...
People forget sometimes there are folks in that position now. They're rather adorable when you take the time to help them and watch 'em get all excited about new things. My Cata-baby guildie? "YOU DIDN'T TELL ME ORCS WERE FROM SPACE!" upon reaching Outland for the first time. XD It's been kinda fun teaching her everything and seeing her discover new places and quests for the first time ever!
Kaylin Oct 26th 2011 11:31PM
You can reset them in D2 now too.
gewalt Oct 26th 2011 11:53PM
only on battle.net!
Drakkenfyre Oct 27th 2011 12:19AM
You can reset them once per difficulty level you beat.
Still can't just swap them out at will. You want to change them? Have to beat the game on a higher difficulty level.
goldeneye Oct 27th 2011 10:52AM
I once met a L42 Warrior in ZF who hadn't learnt a single ability.... ever.
He was getting by with Auto Attack and Heroic Strike (this was in Burning Crusade, when those were your starter abilities, yes, that's the on-next-melee version of Heroic Strike). I think his mind popped when he finally got to a trainer.
Arbolamante Oct 26th 2011 11:36PM
I thought, "I'll put some points in healing -- it'll help me survive." So began a long, long journey.......
morncreek Oct 27th 2011 12:03AM
The Daily Blink also has a round-up. >.> (Caution: Do not eat or drink while reading them.)
http://www.thedailyblink.com/2011/10/talent-revamp-roundup-1/
and
http://www.thedailyblink.com/2011/10/talent-revamp-roundup-2/
Iirdan Oct 27th 2011 12:26AM
Just putting in a completely shameless plug for my new Monk/MoP blog, Inner Peace. It will be initially focused on general MoP news, then beta impressions and reports (thank you, Annual Pass) and finally Monk commentary, theory and advice.
Check it out! http://wow-innerpeace.blogspot.com/
Fletcher Oct 27th 2011 1:48AM
Piercing Shots has an important post on bigotry;
http://piercing-shots.blogspot.com/2011/10/i-would-rather-not-be-making-this-post.html
darkharmonyd Oct 27th 2011 2:52AM
So let me see here. Cata gets developed they move to 1 point every other level 1 ability the other levels. Reasoning being "we want every level to feel important". I'm pretty sure I remember that correctly, along with them wanting you to feel like your spec mattered at level 10. Now first point isn't until 15 and we proceed not to get a point for a while after that. If all that wasn't enough, blizzard once again doesn't think far enough ahead. What is going to happen with the expansion after MoP? We'll be at level 95 more then likely at that point and be looking down the barrel of yet another talent change because they won't very easily be able to use this system for that.
I want to like this expansion, I really do. I mean the pandas look good and all but at the same time this just feels like death of the game for me. I unsubbed a while back figuring when the next one came out I'd be reinvigorated but this just isn't doing much for me. Also besides all that I am not a pvp'er and it just seems like theirs no evil pressence and it might revolve primarily around HvA. Still too early to tell but so far I am not overly excited.
Jbar Oct 27th 2011 8:16AM
Here's the new updated talent calculator for MoP if anyone wants to try it out, http://www.wowhead.com/mists-of-pandaria-talent-calculator
Mike Oct 27th 2011 10:34AM
Looking at the warrior talents listed at this time I notice that Titan's grasp is not anywhere on the list as an electable talent. Make's me wonder how this will be implemented.
I wonder if Fury warriors will get both Titan and Single Minded Fury as part of the leveling for the fury tree or will they find some other way to divide and balance the two styles.
GEZUS Oct 27th 2011 10:54AM
Simplify?
I call it dumbing down!
I don't want to play a game that I pay for on a regular basis that has been hacked down to where a dumb child can play.
Is this where Blizzard is taking it's MMO structure?
No thanks.
I prefer a MMO that has more RPG and character development than grinding for items and gear.
With all the class balance changes, without ever finding a solution, WoW, as popular as it is, has jumped the shark.
gewalt Oct 27th 2011 12:39PM
k have fun playing all the wow clones that desperately want what wow has.
ljhansen2 Oct 27th 2011 10:58AM
I played my first character (warlock) until level 70 , not knowing anything about a talent tree. I had a friend who asked me what spec I was, and of course I had no cle. Those were the days
Luotian Oct 27th 2011 2:05PM
Oh, Anne, I'm SO glad I'm not the only one that did that. My brother and sister were great teachers, but they tended to forget I didn't have the year of play experience they did (I started just before BC came out). I spent a good year and 45 levels before my brother managed to inform me that, oh yeah, there are these things called talent points that make my character special I should probably do something with those.
Silly siblings.