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Massive World of Warcraft Patch Coming; Includes Cataclysm Talent Trees
by Brian Leahy, Oct 11, 2010 4:20pm PDTBlizzard will be deploying a massive World of Warcraft patch this week, which will bring new class mechanics and the talent tree overhaul to the live game in preparation for the December 7 release of Cataclysm (via MMO Champion).
Talent trees will likely be refunded as they shift from 71-point system to a 41-point system. The game will now only allow progress down a single tree until the 31st point is placed in a single tree and the number of talents has been drastically reduced. The Glyphs system will also get an overhaul.
Additionally, many class mechanics are completely changing. For example, Hunters will no longer need to use ammo to fire ranged weapons. Simiarly, soul shards are going away for Warlocks. A list of changes can be found here.
Game servers should be down for around 12 hours beginning at 12:01 PST tonight and should come back online with the patch around noon PST on Tuesday.
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They added a few cool new things which are mainly just showy (water, UI changes that addons did for years, rearranging spellbooks), but for the most part they basically just destroyed most of the gameplay mechanics across the board. I could say a lot more about that, but I'm sure the fanbois would spring out of the wall to defend Blizzards choices.
I will say this though, there will be massive changes between 4.0 and 4.1, possibly even as early as 4.05. A lot of what they're doing wont make the game nearly as much fun for a majority of the players. I'm sure the hardcore ones will be thrilled, but that's only a small fraction of the player base.
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it will do an average of 10% of your over all DPS, in ICC 25man gear some HC gear...your mind blasts and SWD (on target dummy non raid buff) can crit for up to 21k each so watch for the back lash
Holy preists are just insane
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JFC, that's massive.
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