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Placeholder Talents?

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Khellan
#0 - July 14, 2010, 4:32 a.m.
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Didn't GC state that they wanted to get rid of "boring" flat damage increase Talents?

Look at an Affliction Warlock: Improved Curse of Agony, Improved Corruption

Destro: Improved Immolate, Fire and Brimstone

So far, Demo is the only tree that has no flat damage increase but a lot more "cool" abilities. (well, other than Improved Imp and Succubus... ZzzZzz)

Are those placeholder abilities?

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Ghostcrawler
#1 - July 14, 2010, 5:34 a.m.
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I did say that the first two tiers were liable to contain passive talents. This is for three reasons. First, these are available at very low level where you have few abilities to make a real rotation. Second, they need to be pretty understandable to new players (including experienced players trying a new class for the first time). Third, they need to be attractive to subspecs at high level.

There are placeholder talents in various places in the trees though, and we'll keep iterating on all of them throughout beta. This is a pretty big change to every class.