Is this game worth buying?

[Jarulf]

Now the attributes are automatically maxed on each level up, and so the skill points are only needed to either buy trade skills or to learn new weapons.  The amount of player choice seems to be going down.

Actually the "maxing" of skills as you level up is just a temporary fix for this patch. The system to increase them as you played were not working correctly so instead of problems with that, they simply had it max as you leveled up. It will go back to leveling up as you use them again.

I agree that there is less choice now. I liked how you could focus on stats or skills for example at different times of your character (and perhaps even in the long run). It will be nice to see how talents eventually tie into the whole equation.

With my current warrior (who has gone from level 22 to 25 this weekend :) ), I got a major ammount of skill points with new patch, and kept most old trade skills. This has made me basically get every possible trade skill in the game (except engineering and tracking cirrently I think, I will probably get engineering too though). MOst will only ever be at first "level" (brought up to level 75), I have a bunch at second stage up to 150, and now I am running short to upgrade some more, but will pick a few (with few meaning whatever I can afford depending on how much skill points I get).

I was previous thinking that not increasing the cost for new trade skills when you got your third, fourth, fifth or whatever was bad since everyone would end up getting all. Perhaps it is not THAT much a problem, sure you can get them, but can't get them high enough to be that usefull. Sure, tailoring is fun for a warrior, for 5 (or was it 10 or 15?) skill points I can get it up to 75, that means I can make my own blue shirt and so on, but not really make much usefull things. Skinning is fun and I do start to need some leather for blacksmithing and so on. It is a bit overkill to have both alchamy (for potions) and fishing/coooking for nice food (Thunderlizzard tails make excellent food that heals 1100+ health in 30 seconds and only level 15 req or so for example) and fishing can be fun in it self. Adding in first aid for bandages is perhaps even more so but it give alterantives and can "stack" for emergensies. So it is really fun to have more trade skills but at much lower levels than your main one and what your character is at.

As a side note, is there a mail address to send suggestions to Blizzard at? The ingame system is to "small" and probelmatic I think for what I would like to send.