{"id":14970,"date":"2011-10-23T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"world-of-warcraft-talent-system-to-be-replaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14970-world-of-warcraft-talent-system-to-be-replaced","title":{"rendered":"World of Warcraft talent system to be replaced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World of Warcraft fanatics the world over have a lot to be excited about for the upcoming expansion, <a href=\"mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/14962-World-WarCraft-Mists-Pandaria-unveiled.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Mists of Panderia\">Mists of Panderia<\/a>, most significantly being able to punch people in the face with a big cuddly panda in a silly hat.<\/p>\n<p>However, Blizzard has a lot more to unveil about the expansion at their annual information dump, Blizzcon. Cuddly pandas aside, WoW will also be getting a complete overhaul of how players develop their characters, replacing the talent system that&rsquo;s been in place since launch.<\/p>\n<p>The talent system did see significant changes in the 2010 Cataclysm expansion, but WoW systems designer Greg Street has now said at Blizzcon that the team wasn&rsquo;t satisfied, and felt the changes needed to be more impactful.<\/p>\n<p>The aim is to streamline the process, removing a load of insignificant talents, creating a more simple and fun experience, but one that is also more personal and playstyle specific.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how the community reacts to such a significant change to the game.<\/p>\n<p>If there&rsquo;s one thing history has taught us, it&rsquo;s that change is generally not something people react to well, oftentimes even when the change is beneficial.<\/p>\n<p>However, this is Blizzard, and they do garner more faith than most. Maybe everyone is too excited about Kung Fu panda to care anyway.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2011-10-22-wow-talent-trees-to-be-scrapped-redone\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Eurogamer\">Eurogamer<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19344-World-of-Warcraft-talent-system-to-be-revamped\" target=\"_self\" title=\"World of Warcraft talent system to be replaced\"><strong>World of Warcraft talent system to be replaced<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard wants to streamline the process<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}