World Of Warcraft Talents

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Talent points are an important part of a player-character in World of Warcraft. Talent points are one the ways a player has to customize a character. Players ‘spend’ talent points in one of three categories (categories are also called talent trees). A talent point is awarded to the player at level 10, and one talent point is awarded per level after level 10.

Talents give a player character additional abilities or enhance existing abilities. This talent point system allows players to craft a character that suits their playing style. It also allows players to differentiate their character from other characters of the same class. (Class means the type of character; such as warrior, rogue, hunter, and so on.)

A ‘build’ is a collection of talent points spent in a certain pattern. There are three talent trees available to each class. So a build will consist of the abilities or enhancements the player has selected from the three talent trees available to the class. Players for each class have developed standard builds that they share with each other. Players may also use non-standard builds.

The three talent trees typically offer differing strengths. There is usually a talent tree that enhances offensive abilities, a talent tree that enhances defensive abilities, and a utility tree. Thus, by carefully spending their talent points, players can customize their characters to be offensive, defensive, utility, or as is most typical, a combination of two of the trees.

Below is a list of the classes in World of Warcraft, and the talent trees they can spend their talent points on.


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Druid: Balance, Feral Combat, Restoration

Hunter: Beast Mastery, Marksmanship, Survival

Mage: Arcane, Frost, Fire

Paladin: Holy, Protection, Retribution

Priest: Shadow, Holy, Discipline

Rogue: Assassination, Combat, Subtlety

Shaman: Elemental, Enhancement, Restoration

Warlock: Affliction, Demonology, Destruction

Warrior:Fury, Arms, Protection

A couple of important facts about builds should be noted. First, builds are not set in stone. For a price in gold, a player can visit a trainer and ‘buy back’ all their talent points, allowing them to spend them again on a different build. Second, top-level guilds may require certain builds of their members. For example, some guilds will require that their Priests have damage builds, and their Paladins have healing builds.

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