Why so many talent trees?

[Lissa]

Which talents are you refering to? I don't see any that overlap much.

Part of the problem is that in TBC you can get MS and intercept, in 1.0 you had to choose. So you either had higher sustained damage, a huge debuff in MS, or a better ability to tank either zergs or NPCs or run a flag. Now 99% of warriors who are serious about PvP are some variation of 3x/2x/x.

Are people really happy with certain specs being pigeon-holed into certain parts of the end game? Is there a better way to handle muddled trees? I guess they could try and balance things out with stuff like blood frenzy or the new pain suppression, but they start to feel gimmicey to me.

But what you're proposing is even more pigeon holing than what we have now. If you take Warriors down to two trees, you make it so you either DPS or you Tank, while with the present situation you either Burst DPS (good for PvP), sustain DPS (good for PvE), or you Tank.

To give you an idea of just how bad condensing Trees would be try this on for size. Let's say Blizzard decides to remove the trees completely and merges all talents into a single tree keeping everything at their present Tiers. You would see Warlocks running around like the following:

5/5 Improved Corruption
5/5 Improved Shadow Bolt
5/5 Bane
3/3 Demonic Aegis
5/5 Devestation
2/2 Grim Reach
2/2 Destructive Reach
2/2 Intensity
2/2 Nightfall
3/3 Empowered Corruption
1/1 Siphon Life
1/1 Demonic Sacrifice
1/1 Ruin
5/5 Shadow Mastery
3/3 Backlash
5/5 Contagion
5/5 Demonic Tactics
5/5 Shadow and Flame
1/1 Unstable Affliction

There's 61 Talent Points and could you imagine seeing something like that in PvE Raiding? All of the best damage dealing talents a Warlock can muster with only sacrificing 10% threat reduction of Affliction spells. Now imagine a Warlock with all the best PvP oriented talents under the same guise, would you really want to face a Warlock like that in PvP? This is why condensing trees is a bad idea. Right now you have to make a choice and sacrifice for your playstyle, condensing the trees makes the game even more pigeon holed and makes it so you don't have to sacrifice at all. I would rather stick with three trees personally and have to sacrifice than to have one or two trees with all these talents put together, at that point, what reason would there honestly be for talents?