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The latest content patch has been out nearly two weeks and by now everyone should have picked their new talents and glyphs for pretty much all of their toons. This patch brought a lot of changes to the game including the revamped talent system, which I’m still on the fence about. I felt a little bummed when my warlock hit 83 the other day and I was all excited about setting a talent point but then remembered I don’t get to do that until 85. I have not had an opportunity yet to try out any of the new rotations to get a sense of whether the specs I chose for my classes match my play style. I imagine that I may have to spend some cash changing my talents around until I find something that best suits me.

I’m also curious how this will change the concept of theorycrafting. I thought one of the motivations behind Blizzard’s decision to change the talent system was to prevent players from being forced to use a specific spec. It always annoyed me when I would get a whisper from someone while in a LFG dungeon that I should have put X number of points in Y talent.

I think one of my favorite changes are the changes to the minor glyphs. Instead of utility, for the most part, they are just goofy, cosmetic changes. I really think it adds more depth to the customization of your character. They saved the major glyphs for game play modification. Expect to see things like your shadow orbs appear as shadow ravens, polymorph porcupine, charge leaves a trail of flames, four wings with avenger’s wrath, etc. I could go on forever so log in and check it out.

There is so much more going on with this patch that I don’t think I could possibly cover it all without causing your eyes to glaze over and decrease your heart rate. Overall I’m pretty satisfied with the changes with this patch and it does make me a bit more excited for the Mists expansion. If you have been away from the game for a while, I would come back and check out the latest changes, you might be pleasantly surprised.

Cheers!

So when Mists of Pandaria goes live, and everyone starts leveling and raiding again, the angst of acquiring the new shiney legendary will begin and I fear the worst. I don’t really fear for our guild because we are all pretty reasonable adults, but I can already see the drama starting now in the community as a whole. It will envelop hundreds and thousands of players. People will be crying endlessly because they were not chosen to receive the required widgets that must be collected to progress through the quest line. I don’t think Blizzard is quite prepared for the swell of controversy by creating a legendary for all classes.

I’m sure there will be several that have staked claim on a legendary “since level 10” and they will not acquiesce quietly.

Personally I’m not going to get caught up in it because I stand by my belief that a legendary item is merely a luxury item so I could care less. As history has shown us through all the previous expansions, you must have completed the raid to even complete the questline to obtain the legendary and most of the time the bosses need to be farmed for several weeks to acquire all the little bobbles needed for the quest. Therefore any claim that obtaining the legendary for any role within a raid/party will make a significant impact in progression is ludicrous. In fact, as far as my personal opinion goes, anyone that makes that claim should automatically be exempt from the list of potential recipients of said legendary.

Something else that makes legendary weapons pointless is that they become obsolete quicker then it takes to obtain them. Unless you are part of a basement dwelling hardcore raiding guild, you won’t complete the quests and construction of it until just as the next content is about to be released. I think its stupid that Blizzard doesn’t allow you to use it for transmog so really you are just obtaining a Feat-of-Strength achievement and/or unlocking some other frivolity. In fact I don’t think I will even finish the construction of Shadowmourne because I can use Shadow’s Edge for future transmogs.

So someone please explain to me any other purpose for obtaining a legendary other then for touting your epeen? I’m open minded enough to listen and discern any logical and practical application or usage.