Massive World of Warcraft Patch Coming; Includes Cataclysm Talent Trees

4.0 is garbage from what I've seen and read. They originally toted the talent changes as making talent trees more meaningful, but all they did was cut out the bonuses and didn't really add all that much. If removing talents that made talent trees shine less, instead of adding more to make it shine more is what they meant by that it, it's quite stupid. Makes leveling much less eventful, slower, and more meticulous. Most if not all the fun of leveling was from putting that shiny new talent point in something, now that that is gone there isn't a whole lot to look forward to.

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.

long installation is long

Guess the servers wont be up until Wed.

For any shadow priests out there...the new talents are amazing...shadow fiend being part of your dps rotation due to the mind flay crit reducing its cool down by 10sec gives it an avg cool down time of 30sec

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

I wonder if they needed a team of people just to keep the patch notes straight.

JFC, that's massive.