Mardi 17 mai 2016 à 12h21, par Melody
Mardi 17 mai 2016 à 12h21, par Melody
Les choses bougent sur la bêta de Legion lorsque nous abordons le sujet du changement de spécialisation. Jusqu'à présent, changer plusieurs fois de spécialisations, sur la bêta, dans une même journée pouvait vous coûter de nombreuses pièces d'or. Très bientôt, ce système va changer par le choix des développeurs.
Le changement de spécialisation dans la prochaine extension sera donc gratuit. Côté talents, les choses différent légèrement. Ces derniers pourront être modifiés librement et aussi gratuitement dans les villes, le domaine de classe où zone de repos de votre personnage. Toutefois, en dehors de celles-ci, il vous faudra disposer d'un tome créé par les calligraphes. En effet, Blizzard a remarqué que les joueurs changeaient trop souvent leurs talents entre chaque pack dans un donjon, ce qui n’était pas leur but. Que pensez-vous de ces modifications ?
Le changement de spécialisation dans Legion
- Changer de spécialisation : cette action sera gratuite dans l'extension Legion.
- Changer de talents :
- Villes, domaine de classe, lieu où votre personnage est « reposé » : gratuit.
- En dehors de ces zones : requiert un tome créé par les calligraphes qui permettra à tout un groupe de changer ses talents gratuitement pendant un donjon ou un raid.
A couple of clarifications, one of which will probably be a relief and the other likely less so: The Inscription consumable as currently planned would be something that anyone could drop, not a profession-requiring item like a Jeeves. But, in terms of the materials required, we're thinking of something that's more aimed at groups, and probably not the sort of thing an individual is likely to carry a stack of and use freely.
This is clearly more restrictive than the way it works in Warlords. Why would we ever add restrictions to something like this? Do we just sit around and amuse ourselves by thinking of things to take away from players? (We don't.)
Ultimately, for a choice to be meaningful there has to be some associated cost or trade-off in the process. Do you want to eat your cake, or do you want to save it for another time? If you could do both, that wouldn't be much of a choice.
When it comes to talents, which serve the primary purpose of customization and differentiation, consider two extremes in terms of how they could be handled. Please, take a moment to think through the following scenarios:
First, what if you could switch talents freely, at any time, including while in combat? You'd effectively no longer have a talent system - you'd have a spellbook with another 21 active and passive abilities in it, with keybinds to swap between them as needed. Every player of a given spec would have identical capabilities, with some cumbersome interface management required to swap among them on the fly.
Second, what if you could literally never switch talents, short of making a brand new character? Choosing a talent would be a far, far weightier choice than any decision you currently make in the game (other than choosing your starting class, I suppose). Some favored cookie-cutter specs would emerge, but with 2187 different permutations of talents, there'd be significantly more variety among players. But some niche talents would likely go almost entirely unused (though players who did choose them would be invaluable when those situations arose). And feeling like you'd made a mistake, and were stuck with one or more talents that you didn't like at all, might completely sour your enjoyment of a character.
Anyway, we are of course doing neither of those things, but there's a full spectrum of choice that lies in between. We've generally moved away from the second scenario and closer to the first over time (years and years back, respecs were so expensive in relative terms that players often waited for class changes to automatically refund their talents rather than spend the gold to move a point around). Other than the combat restrictions, the live game is not terribly far off from the first scenario.
There's still a fair bit of thought that goes into which talents to select for a raid encounter, where you're in combat for several minutes in a row and facing a variety of threats, and you may have to weigh whether you want better AoE damage for minions in the first phase, or better single-target burst later in the fight; whether you want a passive movement-speed increase for higher overall uptime, or an on-demand active movement ability in case you get targeted by a specific troublesome ability; and so forth.
But most other content, whether it's a single quest boss out in the world, or a dungeon that breaks down to a series of sub-1-minute combats, don't offer nearly that much variety. And so you take the AoE talent for the AoE pack, and the single-target talent for the lone boss, to the point that you might as well just have both of them all the time, which might be powerful, but wouldn't be a choice.
Le changement de spécialisation dans Legion ne coûtera plus d'or