Just make every single node a choice node. Give us more options, more agency with a system that presumably will be around a long time.
Blizz can do this, easily.
Edit: Better yet, Innovate and bring about triple choice nodes, the olde skool trinity of passive, proc and cooldown. Many players prefer one of the three, or dislike one.
More “options” (“” because options are an illusion) while also making every hero talent tree require twice as complicated and twice as hard for the devs to maintain.
#Bringbackthesimpletalenttrees
I can’t imagine another seven or eight Hero Talents that won’t be generic “X ability damage increased by Y percent”.
Min/maxxers, FOTM’ers and sim-junky try hards are not my problem. They will enforce your “illusion of options” on themselves because they lack imagination and creativity. The nerf bat can handily remedy any “complications” that arise.
The devs have a job to do, so maybe they should earn their keep. Are you a dev? No doubt you test their work on the PTR, for free…
We don’t have stats obviously, but FAAAAAAAAAAR more players than the groups you listed use the builds posted on WoWHead which are based on top player input and SIM results.
I would go so far as to guess that 80%+ of all players play that way, with a sizable portion of the remainder using the default Blizzard builds. It would be silly to try to be “creative” because you are only making the game harder.
A better option is to give players access to all talents/abilities and utilize talent trees to give players meaningful choices between utility options.
When playing classic I remembered why there were class trainers. You actually went to them to get new tallents. I liked that idea, I wish they would bring it back.
With my eye sight it’s not all that easy looking at these silly talent trees.
Oh and by the way they are not really trees. In graph theory a tree is a graph with nodes and branches that spread out but they never join back together again. If they do it’s a graph but not a tree.
Or to put it another way, in graph theory all trees are graphs but not all graphs are trees.