Phase 3 Decision

[JustAGuy]

I don't think that the characters will be locked. Since no character has been able to spend any talent points, and there is only one way to accumulate them (by level), the number of talent points is known for each character level; when the next push arrives, and if talents are re-instated, that number can be changed to the level the dev. team deems appropriate.

Either the number of talent points we currently have stays the same, or the cost of spending talent points is scaled up or down. Either way, the number of talent points for any given character level is always a known value. Not like the previous push, where talent points were being spent, so it was inappropriate to give talent points new value/weight, thereby screwing up existing characters. Those characters we made in the first push should very well be deleted, since old "talents" are just skills now, and the points spent on them should be "skill points". That and skill points have less weight.

If the dev. team decides to turn some of the skills we use now back into talents, say for example "Strength" becomes a talent again, then our characters would probably be locked. Personally, I think the whole talents thing is superfluous, as the skills tab is currently all-inclusive and working just fine. I don't even know what they would consider a "talent"... What differentiates a skill from a talent?

Either way, I remade my 1st push Paladin, and the new has surpassed the old in level. I'll be a bit miffed if they lock the characters again. I can only imagine how all those level 39's will feel when they have to restart again after all of that waiting... I want to get to 39 just so I can be that much closer to riding my mount...