http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/1853-Cataclysm-Class-Mastery-Systems-Update Condensed talent trees seem like win. Paladins having DS, Warriors with MS, Mages with water elemental, Rogues with Mutilate.. at level 10. Fun times ahead.
when this hits, you'll only get a talent point about every two levels. their trimming down the useless talents, and once you pick a talent tree, you have to spend all of your talents into that tree until you get to level 70. then, you can choose another tree.
Yes it is very amusing that they acutally make the game fun to play, I say remove all talents until level 85, since its only supposed to be fun at endgame.
Yes! because a talent saying "X makes 1% more dmg or X has a 1% higher chance to be a crtitcal hit" is all that makes this game different (/irony off)
There's one problem with talent trees. You cannot spec into another tree until you have the top tier talent in your chosen tree. They pretty much killed Hybrids.
Gimmick builds are stupid. Past examples are the early DK Tri-specs and PVP prot paladin healers. They also killed "Fire knives" enhancement shamans that dual wielded flametongue enchants with a spellpower weapon in early wotlk. Blizz want's you to play a certain way instead of twisting and contorting things into a way you want. It is their game afterall. Good change, I think.
