#1 - Oct. 23, 2011, 5:19 p.m.
But the DK talent trees don't seem to follow this. Instead of making core class abilities baseline, Blood tanks appear to be about to lose an ability in 3 talent tiers. We'll have to choose between Lichborne and Bone Shield, Death Pact and Vamp Blood, Blood Tap and Runic Empowerment. And we will need to give up a core ability if we want to get the raid cooldown we need.
I'm not sure what's going on here, because every other talent tree has cool new abilities, or choices that are similar to the choices people make today simply by choosing a spec. Blood tanks, though, are just straight up losing abilities.
Don't mistake, DK's also have 3 awesome talent choices. And I'm not about to complain about numbers or balance, since things are bound to change greatly. When half of our trees are nerfing or dumbing down rather than providing for customization that seems like a pretty big disconnect.