Stand-alone specs based on tinker?

[Brewa-hyjal]

That’s the ongoing and worsening problem with the game’s class design, it’s always centered around marketing instead of around better gameplay.

We’re seeing it again in TWW. What they SHOULD be doing with talents is finishing up the spec trees that are complete crap and have been since Dragonflight launched.

But “we fixed our massive list of mistakes” doesn’t sell well, so instead we get Hero Talents instead, which will:

1. Introduce brand new problems.
2. Leave the unfinished talent trees unfinished forever.
3. Show the usual Blizzard bias towards their favorite classes.

For #3, I called it back in December, and was right. It’s been the usual “Blizzard’s Favorites On Parade” development cycle that we always get.

Are hero talent trees covenants all over again?

I’m less concerned with balance between a spec’s 2 different hero talent trees. Much more concerned with Blizzard’s usual bias toward the usual suspects for having cool trees in the first place. I’m quite sure that Warrior, Paladin, Priest will have amazing hero talents. Monk, Rogue, Shaman… not so much.