Comments on: Talent trees in Cataclysm – scrapped and redone

By: Random

Random — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:30:26 +0000

All the changes for Cataclysm seem Amazazing (misspelled for extra emphasis) However, I for one am dreading the itemization changes for some classes since they haven’t really explained/released how they work.
eg. Ret pally’s, Enh Shaman’s no longer getting/needing int on gear they will get mana in “other ways”.

I do like the changes I’ve seen for Balance Druids aka BOOMkin but wonder if they will revert to OOMkin with the loss of mp5 in place of spirit as well as not as much spirit on thier gear.

Alas they still haven’t addressed the comparably low hp pools of Enh Shamans. When my Mage, Warlock, and Priest who aren’t as well geared have significantly (I’m talking 5-6k diff) lager health pools while I stam stack just to keep up there is a problem.

By: tkc

tkc — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:50:17 +0000

But… but… my hybrid priest!
Now, if they give us something like Borrowed Time or Penance right off the bat then I’ll be jumping for joy as I ditch the shadow talents.

For resto druids it will be nice. Our lower level talents really seem like fillers for the other trees. It would be nice to get something more resto oriented right off the bat. Swiftmend, Lifebloom, or even the nerfed-to-hell tree form would be helpful.

I’ll still level my horde project druid as feral because kitties are so full of win for leveling. And I hear rumor that we’ll get kitty form at 10. Now imagine kitty at 10 with mangle. /drool

By: ieatkittens

ieatkittens — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:37:11 +0000

I’m super pumped about these changes… all around awesome… hang on to the grit, cut the $!&t.

I do have one concern however… as you mentioned, I’ll be leveling a new druid during Cata as well. I’ll want to assist my friend by healing him as he levels his warrior. BUT, I don’t want to lvl resto; I’d rather lvl feral. Does this change mean that I am going to be more limited than normal to do some healing while leveling if I chose my “destiny” to 70 as feral?

Does that make sense? In the current game, I can spec and lvl feral, but easily still have some decent healing capabilities as well. I’m hoping this doesn’t change any.

Best!

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:23:00 +0000

I enjoy the leveling experience too… and thanks in part to your blog, I picked up a druid. The changes seem good, I might have to pick up another druid after the launch.

By: Moonra

Moonra — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:50:38 +0000

And I just wrote a bit on a Moonkin build… the good thing is that they realised they failed in the first place. (I hope they do..)

The original plan was to make talents so if you would pick A you won’t feel bad about not picking B. But in the Talent trees we saw you could pick everything, and still have points to spent… I hope this will change it.

Lets hope this is something good, and that we get to see some of it soon!

*I’ve been levelling another druid lately (surprised, aren’t you?) and whining my way to 40 about how I need Innervate so badly.*

Same, but I’m dying to get Swiftmend
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