05-02-2006, 10:43 PM
Zarathustra,May 2 2006, 03:26 PM Wrote:I, too, am a bit worried about the change. I had the conversation the other day with a guildmate who plays a mage about Evocation. My thoughts were that mages DON'T all "need" that skill, and it should rightly be something you need to spec for.
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The trouble is that if you have a talent that is so over the top amazingly good, you effectively force the majority of players to get that talent and thereby effectively limit the variation within the class that talents are supposed to encourage. You're right that a mage doesn't "need" to have Evocation, but any mage without it will be at a severe disadvantage to those mages that do have it, especially in any sustained fight. This effectively forces mages to get it (except people after Lurkers own hearts who like to break away from cookie cutter builds), so you end up with mages who are either Arcane/Fire or Arcane/Ice, and those two builds basically play the same way. The same can be said for druids. Innervate is such a good skill that basically you either have it or you are gimped when in a party. This greatly limited the variation within the druid class. Once Innervate is made available to all druids, I don't think there will be as much antagonism about druids going feral or moonkin. Oh, sure, some, but not as much. That's a good thing.