Though undoubtedly far less important now than in their original form.

Jan 16, The most common response to people liking talent trees is that it was fairly pointless giving a choice because of the old “cookie cutter” thingo where there was always Best Build and if you didn’t take that you were a loser. I like the theory of talent trees but I Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. Old talent trees - General Discussion - World of Warcraft Forums.

Another reason was also that WoW added to the total talent pool faster then a lot of those games, which meant that the act of balancing the trees actually pushed fun and powerful spec defining abilities deeper into the trees hurting the low level player experience while levelling which is why in cataclysm you saw them separate specialisation from customisation prior to the complete revamp in.

Oct 22, WOW talent trees to be scrapped, redone New Monk class can fill any role. News by Oli Welsh, Editor-in-chief Updated on 22 October Blizzard has revealed that it's scrapping the talent Author: Oli Welsh.

Oct 07,» World of Warcraft Yes, I think blizzard had some wishful thinking that they could remove cookie cutter talent trees by implementing these style of talents, plus they want you to 'think about' which talents you need to take, but a lot of them you still don't need to switch up your talents on a per fight basis. I really liked old.