07-30-2004, 07:19 PM
Hey Pete...
I just have a problem with someone thinking... "well, this talent sucks. I'm going to unlearn it."
Now granted, I haven't done much looking into the talent system to see how it works, but something might be absolutely useless at first, and then get better.
Someone, I'm not sure if it was you, had said that puting your talent points into something is a gamble, especially since the rules and other things change with no warning. But what's to say that if some talent gets nerf-ed in one "patch," it might not get totally beef-ed in the next?
I personally think that there is going to be a lot more time before the Beta ends, which would give people plenty of time to get thier characters to a higher level. There are just simply too many things that Blizzard needs to work on/iron out before the game goes live. Otherwise, WoW, risks the potential of being a MMORPG version of "Ishtar" (Woody Allen, Dustin Hoffman movie from the 80's - big box office flop).
You can have an impressive game engine, impressive graphics, new things that haven't been tried before or implemented well in other MMORPGs, but if there are things that make the game suck, then the game sucks any way that you look at it. Just with the frequency that the servers crash on us is indicitive that they are still needing to do a lot with the infrastructure behind the game. Let alone broken quests, bugged monsters that chase you all the way across the Loch in Loch Modan...
I still say that they leave the talents the way that you set them, so it forces you to investigate whatever combination that you choose. It makes you think about choosing wisely and taking into consideration your style of gameplay. Besides, what's to say that a talent might get wiped, like Sleep was for the Mage. I say leave them as they are placed, and possibly reset them when another "patch" comes out....or at least give the option....once a patch.
I just have a problem with someone thinking... "well, this talent sucks. I'm going to unlearn it."
Now granted, I haven't done much looking into the talent system to see how it works, but something might be absolutely useless at first, and then get better.
Someone, I'm not sure if it was you, had said that puting your talent points into something is a gamble, especially since the rules and other things change with no warning. But what's to say that if some talent gets nerf-ed in one "patch," it might not get totally beef-ed in the next?
I personally think that there is going to be a lot more time before the Beta ends, which would give people plenty of time to get thier characters to a higher level. There are just simply too many things that Blizzard needs to work on/iron out before the game goes live. Otherwise, WoW, risks the potential of being a MMORPG version of "Ishtar" (Woody Allen, Dustin Hoffman movie from the 80's - big box office flop).
You can have an impressive game engine, impressive graphics, new things that haven't been tried before or implemented well in other MMORPGs, but if there are things that make the game suck, then the game sucks any way that you look at it. Just with the frequency that the servers crash on us is indicitive that they are still needing to do a lot with the infrastructure behind the game. Let alone broken quests, bugged monsters that chase you all the way across the Loch in Loch Modan...
I still say that they leave the talents the way that you set them, so it forces you to investigate whatever combination that you choose. It makes you think about choosing wisely and taking into consideration your style of gameplay. Besides, what's to say that a talent might get wiped, like Sleep was for the Mage. I say leave them as they are placed, and possibly reset them when another "patch" comes out....or at least give the option....once a patch.