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Speed of Light talent in 5.0

Did anyone else look at the spec specific bonuses and go ಠ_ಠ ?

  • Devolore
    Posted 14 years, 1 month ago (Source)

    I think they are listed as intended. My assumption is that the new talent system is to avoid having any talents that would be *must have* to not be a "bad player" in the light of Raids/PvP. In other words, no talent would be an obvious damage/healing/defensive buff unless the rest of the talents on that tier provided similar buffs in different ways - thus giving players a worry-free way to choose talents that best suit them, without worrying about some 1% (or even 10%) DPS (etc.) loss.

    If the talent was to give

    • Ret: A damage boost;

    • Prot: a damage reducer;

    • Holy: another heal.

    Then there would be no question that 'everybody should get that talent,' completely undermining any reason to have the other 2 on that top tier.

    What this poster said is 10,000% correct. The point is the run speed increase (just look at the other two options in the tier). If the extra bonus was directly appropriate to each spec, you'd never even think about the other options.

    I don't know why so many people have so much trouble with that concept.

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