Too diluted even for a noob. It appeared to WOW TBC Classic Gold them that they were trying to attract more people who are not experts. This was not a success for casual players.

I believe it’s a losing situation for developers. Certain players, just as you are, are prone to the fake sense of mastery and agency that is associated with putting points in the exact same places as everyone else. If you limit yourself to feasible choices that are balanced and have no one right answer, they’re overwhelmed, sad, and constrained.

Talents were a poor mechanic. People who were smart searched for the most levelling spec and then followed it with a mindless. Noobs and casuals were screwed. Intelligent people sought out the best raiding spec, and then they took it on their own. Raids with abso-fuckingly the same warriors and mages, and rogues, all following identical BiS sets and sporting identical rotations, produced raids that were full of identical specifications. Absolute homogeneity for the proficient, a million ways to get fucked up and be considered a complete noob by everyone else . You’ll have to pay a gold tax to fix it.

It’s true, you get an illusory feeling of control and authority as you stick your fourth talents point in “Do +1 percentage more of it” or put your 30th talent point in “this ought to be a baked-in level of ability”. This is a flimsy illusion. You’re not developing any technique or mastering anything more complex than a five year old’s book of stickers. (But it’s also true that I’m convinced that buy WOW Classic TBC Gold a good portion of Classic’s biggest fans are the type of players who will boost their self-esteem by believing that winning a fifteen-year old game solved by playing children’s sticker-book level minigames makes the player a true gaming god.)