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Official WoW Expansion Talent Information
smartidiotaz writes "Blizzard has finally released more information about the talent trees after leaks broke out over the internet. " As typical, every class thinks every other class got a better deal, but the Pallies get to mean it ;)
Slashdot finally releases guidelines for a proper summary length after an extra short summary left readers stratching their mousepads.
Serious question, not a slam.
I played through the 1-60 level grind on my free month, battlegrounds seemed a joke with the wait times, and WoW raiding doesn't seem very interesting(at least IMO compared to EQ raiding a few years ago).
I know a lot of MMORPG players and not one of them are still playing WoW - which is strange because the sampling of the people I know has pretty well tracked player populations for every previous MMORPG over the past six to seven years I've been playing them.
Where are all these WoW players and what are they doing while they are logged in all these months since the game went live?
leaks broke out over the internet
Well, that explains it. I *thought* the Internet was running a bit slow today...
I wouldn't worry too much. I doubt they'll just leave them with nothing. Patience!
They are probably the same skills. I am a hunter in the game, and have a skill called True Shot Aura. I believe that skill does roughly the same thing and has the same icon. Its not like it was stolen anyways. Its the same company and the same universe and it came out about a year afterwards. Not a huge surprise and I don't see anything wrong with it.
I have a real talent for sitting on my ass while snacking on a can of Pringles in front of a computer, fantasizing I'm King Theoden making sweet snoo snoo to Liv Tyler on my cold castle marble floor. I've never played WoW before, but what talent tree class do I belong to?
I hope, when they die, cartoon characters have to answer for their sins.
It's ver simple really. The Blood Elves are a kickass race. When a kickass race wants divine power, they don't ask for it; they just take it. In the Blood Elves' case, they made a Naru(being of light) into their bitch and their paladins tap into divine energy siphoned from it.
So blood elf paladins' holy power does not come with any EULA saying they have to have a +5 stick of morality up their ass.
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You got it right, you did the grind.
As such you would be clueless as to why people continue to play the game. See, they are playing a game. You were in a race, with what no one knows, but obviously you did not come to play. First and foremost, you cannot win at a MMORPG, so where is the rush?
Apparently the MMORPG crowd you hang with is a minority. Then again people with your mindset normally are. Do you jump from game to game? If you only spent a month in WOW I can't see how you spend more in any other.
Yeah this borders on bashing but if I had a PENNY for everyone who claims WOW is dieing or that everyone they know doesn't play it I would be so rich it would be silly.
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Well, look who posted it. It's CmdrTaco, the same guy who wrote a long, whiney, seven-page essay about the fact he had to change his World of Warcraft name because "Cmdr" violates the rule of no titles in nicknames. Taco's defense was that he had the nick for years, and goshdarned it, he's CmdrTaco of Slashdot, so he should get to keep it. It might be one of the most meaningless articles ever posted to Slashdot.
"Sufferin' succotash."
Probably a member of the Paladin class. Or maybe Taco's drunk beer buddies running around naked.
They've been systematically reviewing each class almost since the game came out. Most of the changes have been in the talent trees. Rogues had their review in the 1.12 patch, and their talents were changed.
This is different. This is the addition of new, higher tier (up to 41 point required) talents to coincide with the release of the expansion and the increasing of the level cap to 70.
Game... blouses.
Aside from the "lore" explanations given by the other poster, putting paladin-like (they're "Blood Knights" dontcha know!) characters on the Horde side and shaman characters on the Alliance side is supposedly allowing the designers to make MUCH more interesting instance encounters. Since they no longer have to worry about factional differences, they can implement ideas they had that would require certain classes etc.
Since I can't tell them apart, I treat all ACs as the same person.
From the Paladin talent calculator:
"Avenger's Shield
Hurls a Holy Shield at the enemy, dealing 270 to 330 Holy damage, dazing them then jumping to nearby enemies. Affects three targets."
Why not just change the class name to Captain America while you're at it?
While that was said in jest, I would actually say that Paladin's didn't get a raw deal this time. Not only can we be viable tanks, but also a lot of the improvments focus on Paldins being in the thick of things, going melee on mobs, instead of standing in the back and healing. That's a definite improvement in my book.
Lots of people care. WoW has transcended the games section. You ask who gives a.....but you post anonymous because you know a lot of people do. The real question is..."who gives a" about your posts, Mr. anonymous.
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"which is sad as the well-geared DPS warrs in my guild can put up just as much damage as a rogue."
Which is exactly why DPS Warriors were not improved much. They have no business outdamaging rogues with equivalent gear.
Rogues wear leather. Rogues cannot tank. Rogues have no taunting abilities. The only thing they bring to a raid is enormous damage and the luxury of not having to worry about a mana pool. The only other primary ability they have unique to them is Stealth, which is currently almost completely worthless in raid level PVE.
If a Warrior is matching damage with a rogue, and also gets to tank in a pinch by swapping in a shield, or taunt in an emergency to save a caster then why have rogues?
Warriors have been ridiculously overpowered since they buffed itemization past Arcanite Reaper. Since Rage generation scales with damage, the advent of legendary weapons and epics with dps over 70 has given them far too much power in long drawn out fights (where rage management is never an issue) Finally they are able to do someting about it in the expansion and they are going through with it.
I beg to differ. While the Horde isn't clearly Evil, it's nonetheless slightly "more evil" than the Alliance.
Take the Orcs, for example: they allowed themselves to be near completely corrupted by demonic powers. They are now free from this corruption, sure, but in the end they lose in comparison to the Alliance, for the member races of the Alliance did not become corrupt, they fought against the Burning Legion's corruption so fiercely that they managed to avoid the corruption.
Now, look at the Undead (Forsaken): they, like the Orcs, managed to become free from the corruption. But a lot of the evil influence from the Burning Legion remains, just look at the biological experiments they do.
The new Blood Elves are addicted to magic, and their culture revolves around the idea that totaliarianism is A Good ThingTM. For instance, see how did they manage to get Paladins: they captured and enslaved a holy entity that would have given holy powers to them had they simply asked! But no, Blood Elves don't ask, Blood Elves take!
And the Trolls were cannibals that only gave up on cannibalism because the Orcs told them that they wouldn't be allowed to join the Horde if they kept doing that.
From the entire Horde, the only race that is clearly and plainly good are the Tauren. They're with the Horde due to their sense of duty, because the Orcs for having saved them, but that's it.
Now, let's look at the Alliance:
The villest thing the Night Elves did was to go around in a killing spree against Furbolgs, thinking all of them were corrupted and thus killing the minority that wasn't. They also built a new giant tree when their gods told them "no" (the shock! the horror!).
The Gnomes messed up badly and ended poisoning their own capital after being invaded by trolls. Now they have to live with the Dwarves.
The Dwarves dig big holes, what the Night Elves think violates "Mother Azeroth" (or something like that).
The Draenei had bad luck and ended in a forced landing in Azeroth while fighting the Burning Legion.
And the Humans, ah, the Humans! The most horrendous thing they did was not to pay the masons that rebuilt their capital, these masons now being pretty revolted with the nobles...
So, all things considered, I don't think both are equal in the moral level. The Horde is clearly, at least, a "bad neighbour". Were not for the existence of the much more evil Burning Legion, in comparison to which the Horde is made of saints, and the moral difference between the Alliance and the Horde would be really undisputable.
Conservatism: (n.) love of the existing evils. Liberalism: (n.) desire to substitute new evils for the existing ones.
You're just saying that because you're Human.
my sig's at the bottom of the page.
Female human paladin on a RP server. Truth.
Um, try re-reading that article. If I recall correctly, it wasn't CmdrTaco whinging. It was CmdrTaco surprised at himself about how attached he was to his name. It was introspection. It probably sounds like he's whinging because he's describing how much it bothered him, but I don't recall him saying "I'm right and they're wrong". I do recall him saying "I'm surprised at how attached I am to that name".
Feel free to flame me if I'm wrong about that.
Remember, not ALL of Slashdot plays WoW (just 90%..)
What are "Pallies?" Taco's summary makes no sense to me.
Why is that some slashdot readers, when something in the summary is outside their knowledgge, they can't just look it up on Google.
Tip for you - if you're using firefox, just select the word/acronym/phrase, context click & choose "search web for..." It's not that hard and you're then not bothering a group of peole who want to discuss the article, rather than answer questions from noobs.
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
Until he gets modded as a troll
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