Tobold's Blog Wednesday, March 28, 2007 Hero class rumors
Crowelf alerted me to an article on Tales of an Addict about a
purported leak on the design of hero classes for World of
Warcraft. Well, it's just a rumor, could be fake, and even if it
was true it might get changed beyond recognition before it is
finally implemented. But the basic idea is so incredibly boring,
that it sounds real: Every class splits into three hero classes,
with each hero class being equivalent to one talent tree. So a
shadow priest could develop into a Dark Cleric, and protection
warrior into a Guardian.  Besides being blindingly obvious as an
idea, it would also incredibly bad game design. The catch is in
the phrase "specializing in a Hero Class is like specializing in
a profession - you're stuck with it forever". Now who would want
to be stuck on one talent tree forever, with no possibility to
change? Imagine you specialize as frost mage, and the next raid
dungeon that opens is full of frost resistant mobs, making you
as useless a