I see talent builds for AOE, Raid, Mythic +, etc.
Do people constantly switch?
It must be exhausting to constantly swap talents every single time you run something.
Depends on the spec.
I do wish swapping higher points didn’t sometimes brick the tree, though.
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I agree.
I dislike the idea of having to re-do your build for every specific boss fight.
It seems silly and a little much.
I’m never going to push 1%-er tryhard type raiding anyway so I don’t need to worry about it, hopefully.
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Yeah I just go with 1 spec for everything lol.
Man, people swap for each boss??? That’s a little much.
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You certainly shouldn’t be manually switching talents for each type of content, that’s what loadouts are for. You can set up loadouts for, say, ST and AoE and swap between them with one button.
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Wait what? I had no idea there’s loadouts LOL
Yup, in the little dropdown in the lower-left of the talent window. New Loadout will save your current talent setup and then you can swap back to it at any time. And there’s import/export settings so you can use talent builds from guides or your friends.
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WOW that’s amazing OK I am going to make a few builds now.
That’s perfect thanks.
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As a BM hunter yeah, I have a ST spec and an aoe spec. I can’t spec into both at once, unfortunately.
It takes like 5 seconds.
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I’ve always swapped a bunch of talents on my Holy Priest depending on content. I used to only swap 2 talents on my Mage here. But after the rework I think there’s more talents to change. I don’t mind it. Especially when it comes to PvP.
This has got to stop. They need to make it autofill back whatever you had that’s still possible. Makes swapping points for affixes more tedious than it needs to be. But then it feels odd to have multiple loadouts that are only different by a talent.
You can literally take 10 minutes go too Wowhead copy loadouts for Talents for every Type of content.from single target,aoe builds raids and mythic plus.
You an also loadout specific builds for every mythic plus week dungeon and there affixes quite handy tbh and hardly difficult too switch.
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depends on what content youre doing
world content? eh maybe
levelling dungeons/heroic dungeons/lfr/normal raid? ehhh probably not
heroic raid? maybe per encounter
mythic raid? definitely per encounter
low-mid keys? maaaybe per dungeon
high end keys? possibly per each boss but also definitely per dungeon
You cannot change talents per boss in Mythic plus and certainly not at high end key levels you are not going too waste precious time zoning out too do so.
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I do. This week was enraging so I specced into the dracthyr talent that makes our CC roar dispell enrage effect on mobs in my AoE cone. When spiteful comes up, I’ll spec into wing buffet CD restoring faster or landslide taking more damage to break.
LFR I’ll usually stack more self defensives. World content wise I usually try to build in most damage/fastest useful CDs. It depends who I’m doing content with too. If we’ve got two hunters, or a hunter/druid/rogue combo that already has dispells pre-baked into their choices, I’ll usually go more damage again.
New talent system is just better. The content; the specific talents of any given spec/class may not be ideal across the board, but balancing and designing of that will never be “done”.
From the most “casual” perspective - Default talent loadout. No thought required. No google, don’t even have to put talents in yourself. Just press and forget.
Slightly less casual perspective - Look up a talent build, use it.
Next tier of nerdiness - Looking up talents builds. Saving one for single target, AOE, questing maybe.
“hardcore” players, “elitists”, actual gamers - Loadouts for more varied throughput. single target, cleave, funnel, various degrees of AoE. Probably a varied talent setup for most fights and dungeons.
The kings, the theorycrafters - Test setups, ingame or externally. Find “the meta” (at the higher levels) and alternate builds. Understand what each of their talents do, and where their value lies.
I usually run whatever mythic+ spec is considered good for a class. You will likely produce good aoe and single target damage, but won’t fully reach your potential in either one. This is good enough in the casual content I run.
Just click on the build drop-down, select your build, and off you go. You can store 10 builds as far as I am aware.
If you have more than ten builds, you can copy and paste the string into a text file and copy and paste it back in when you need to. There are probably addons that handle this by storing the build string in a LUA data file in your WTF folder.
If they want to
You just save loadouts in the talent window and click a button…
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It actually makes your class way more interesting and diverse.
And yes - very different talents depending on the encounter and/or your role.