08-02-2004, 10:10 PM
Quote:I completely agree that *when the game goes retail* talents should be a permanent decision. That is a big part of the game. But right now, we should be testing, not playing. To test implies to try different things to see how they work.
But Pete, if you can switch your talents around from fight to fight, you'd be testing something completely different than what would be available at retail. I can tell you right now that an all-ice mage, for example, would be fantastic against a fire immune boss. That doesn't need to be tested. What does need to be tested is how well an all-ice mage does in getting to that boss. By allowing people to change their talents at will every time they visit a city, it gives testers ample chances to try different combinations of talents -- and yet, it also forces a person to test a condition much closer to retail. That is, the person is stuck with whatever talent combinations they chose for their entire trip away from the city. The nice thing is that if a combination turns out to be terrible, the person can hearth and/or fly back to a city and rearrange their talents. Once again, I think Blizzard's idea is a better testing mechanism than allowing people to change talent points from fight-to-fight.