Just read it *been busy cleaning*Shade wrote:
And Xakaal, I edited my post above-didn't think anyone would respond so quickly, if what I edited in makes my point a little better. It takes me a little time to organize my thoughts the right way this early in the morning.
To the topic of Spirit Mend being considered OP:
Pets of all specc's already get the buffed stam and armor, thunderstomp has nothing to do with healing (and would nullify the need for using the spirit beast heal on myself if the pet could keep aggro off me), growl only has one perk in relation to healing and thats the talent Silverback :3 But again, if my spirit beast could heal via growl, it wouldnt need to use Spirit Mend as often or at all if i dont mend it. I hardly have to heal my tenacity pets in the first place and a lot of key things they have can be found in the other specc's. Spirit Mend wont ever make them OP tanks, since tanks are designed for survivability and can do fine with or without the mend.
To the argument of what might happen to exotics and talent trees in general:
I have absolutely no idea if we're losing our talent trees for one specific tree where we choose one talent every 15 levels but if we are losing our trees, i am wondering how this will play out. When the new system was announced, i first thought that we would still specc as BM or MM or SV and we'd have these specific talents to choose from but the perks of what we're trying to specify into (such as say, being MM and getting MM only perks but choosing talents from the same tree that BM's and SV's get) but now im starting to question if they're wiping specc's completely. I havent seen any information prior to right now that has made that clear to me so im quite confused now.
In a way i do sort of hope that we do get 'specc perks' but choose from the same tree as the others so that exotics stay with BM specc. I just as much as many of you here would and are dying to use a, say, devilsaur in a different specc or your spirit beast or your worm, but its sort of what made BM unique.. i was forced to start figuring out BM specc when we got the ability to tame exotics and it was awful at first but then i grew to love it and i felt special XD If they are doing away with specc's in general, i wont have any quarrel against it, but i will be a little on the sad side.
When people discussed the idea of us choosing our pets trees at will, i just thought that they were giving us the ability to change their specc but have their trees remain as they are right now. Then when i read the quote, i just figured they were making it more like our new trees but still having them in specific specc's as we know em today.