Just wondering if anyone else is hoping to see Gladiator return in these new spec trees for Warriors along with maybe a few similar gameplay options for a few other classes. I mean if developers are still reading these forums and looking for ideas well there you go. Sure, Gladiator wasn’t perfect but a talent tree system such as this in 10.0 could lend to making it a much greater and fun playstyle.
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Oh god please yes. Bring back gladiator. I miss my axe and shield dps warrior.
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We can only hope and pray… and flood the GD till players get annoyed. 
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I’d love to see it return.
But right now the closest you are gonna get is to stack crit and versatility and run Venthyr, Condemn may be the worst right now but it STILL hits like a truck.
I goof on my warrior tank like this and seeing Condemn smash things in the face for 13k is alot of fun. On junk mobs you can charge in and open with Condemn and chunk half their life in a single hit.
Some fights are literally 3 hits
Charge–Condemn–Shield Slam–Condemn–it’s over.
Obviously you won’t be running high keys or anything like this but just to have fun and have the Gladiator feel, it works.
Yes. Yes. 10/10 for the love of god, yes. I absolutely loved sword-and-board in WoD, for the limited time we had it
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I don’t think the talent tree system being introduced is what you think it is. Its not like the old one where we had a set of tree’s that we then would fill out making our role. This system is you pick your roll (fury, prot, arms) and then given the corresponding tree for that role. I don’t think there will be the chance to mix and max like some people want.
Feral is finally getting Innervate.
Anything is possible.
This is what I fear is going to happen.
On my DK what I’m HOPING will happen is as frost, I can talent into having Army back and maybe picking up Apocalypse and Horn of Winter while being able to ignore stuff like Breath.
But knowing Blizzard they are going to Monkey Paw this system and they are going to just take all our stuff we have already and toss it onto new trees and call it done.
We’ll see, but I still suspect you’ll have the ability to avoid some skills that maximize threat in favor of skills that maximize damage.
We just haven’t seen enough to know how it will work.
And, yes, I want to make a DPS shield paladin as well.
Problem is we don’t have enough information but if it is deep down in the tree it can be made an option that will have a few other items branched off of it. I am simply saying that we can get an even better form of Gladiator this time with this kind of talent system.
the thing is, it seemed that when descibing this tree system, they keep mentioning the conduit system. Those are the kind of ‘talents’ I think you will be deciding on.
I’m basing this on what is shown in the dragonflight announcement. They clearly show two tree’s to put points in. One tree is labelled ‘Druid’, the other tree is labelled ‘Restoration’ (its at 26:55 in the video if you want to check it out). That said, it also mentions that it is a work in progress, so maybe they will allow some connection to the other specs. I just don’t think they will.
I hope so, but wouldn’t hold my breath.
Dude I have my fingers crossed like a friggin double helix at this point. I just wanna DPS with Sword n’ Board! Lemme enact Revenge crits and brutal shield slams alongside my other dps’ing friends!
In a perfect world, it’s simply a separate 4th spec called Gladiator or Spartan or something. In the most probable outcome, it returns as it was in WoD with some changes adjusting for hindsight.