Do you create builds yourself or copy other sources?

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I’ve been copying from icy veins, but I find it’s not as fun as making your own. Guides will often forgo QoL talents for something else because of marginal dps gains.

How do you build your characters?

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Copying from WoWhead. I’m putting zero brain power into this, lmao.

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Always my own builds. Rather be suboptimal and completely understand all my talent choices than be a cookiecutter type player.

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I go with whatever sounds fun, regardless if some super computer says its a 0.05% decrease in efficiency.

Shockwave and Shield Charge build. Is it viable? Is it worse overall? Does it even make sense? I dunno but it makes big numbers and stuns stuff.

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I have 14 level 70s, of course I’m gonna copy from Wowhead or somewhere else.

I’m not gonna theorycraft for 14 toons.

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I use builds I find them change a few things to make it work for me and my playstyle.

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I’ll create builds as a level through Chromie time but occasionally adapt some PvP builds and add some of my favorite abilities.

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I look at builds on subcreation.net and choose my talents based on what M+ dungeon I’m doing and what mechanics it has or what affixes are current

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I switch around cause I’m not doing anything serious but eventually go back to cookie cutter. Why would I want to make any group content pugging worse even low stuff?

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I’ll usually wing it for leveling, and then copy find a guide and copy it at max level.

Then after a while I’ll tune it to my specific needs.

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I mostly copy from other sources, though I tend to tweak some things based on personal preference.

Honestly, I am just not that interested in talents as a system. I know some people love it and are thrilled to try out new builds, or change talents for every occasion, but personally I am happy to pick a build I like and then ignore it forever.

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I make my own, especially for my healers.

I’ve greatly missed talent trees being like they are now. I hated it when they pruned them back in… err… start of Cata or whatever? idk I like having to think about how my character plays and what I need to do with it.

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I ignore guides. I pick what I like and adjust as I play if I find I have a skill or talent I don’t like or don’t use for whatever reason.

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For the most part, I do my own builds. Pre-made builds aren’t really needed for the content I do.

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100% custom builds.

I read guides, and look at their talents and justifications for using them…then go make my own build. I like to change and test frequently as well.

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Start with the guides, they exist either because its a strong build or had the numbers crunched to be a good build then adjust it on your own to how you’d like it to play.

Playing a sub optimal build optimally will almost always outdps an optimal build played unoptimally.

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I care about performance so I use simmed builds from top end players.

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I will majority copy my build from Icyveins and get rid of the dumb stuff they for some reason think I should have in favor of other things I know I will use… Like Enh shaman had a recommended talent for spiritwalkers grace or something? (could be wrong, I literally never look at the skill tree after hitting max level) Hard to remember examples cause I nose chuckle and get rid of that garbo

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For group content I copy other builds, and for world content I change to whatever I want.

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I made my own build for the spec i enjoy the most, it was a ton of fun. It was trash, just garbage dps, but i really hate the meta for that spec.
I ended up completely switching specs and pretty much just copied the meta.
Pretty big disappointment to be honest.