World of Warcraft Talent Points

[Earl Burns]

One of the most enjoyable aspects of any MMORPG like World of Warcraft
is the ability to personalize your character. Personalizing your
character by choosing which talents to level and which ones to ignore
is what helps to make characters that belong to the same class unique
from one another.
Beginning with level ten, your character will begin to receive one
talent point for each new level that is gained. As you earn them you
will assign your talent points to your character's corresponding skill
tree. There are three different skill trees available to each
character class and they are all unique to their particular class.
Each individual skill tree in World of Warcraft is comprised of the
various unique skills and abilities that are available to its own
particular character class.
What follows is a brief explanation as to how the Talent Point/Skill
Tree system in World of Warcraft operates. Acquiring a particular
ability or skill for the corresponding talent is not as simple as
gaining and assigning one point to its corresponding skill tree. This
is due the fact that there are prerequisite for all of those higher
than tier one. Simply stated, what this means is that, in order to
activate and take advantage of a certain Talent that is located within
the second tier of the Skill Tree, you may be required to assign five
of your talent points in the top tier prerequisite before it is
activated. This tiered system requires players to use a certain degree
of strategy when choosing where they allocate their talent points as
they are earned. When a talent is placed, it can not be removed
without the player making a trip to their class trainer and paying a
fee to unlearn all of their talents.
In order to learn the ultimate talent you are required to have thirty
Talent Points already placed in that particular Skill Tree. What this
means is that for you to be able to learn the ultimate talent you will
have to allocate at least 31 points into that particular tree. Because
of this limiting factor, you are only capable of learning one of the
three ultimate talents.
Because each of the available World of Warcraft character classes has
three different talent trees that are completely unique for each
class, you have a couple of options available to you. You can allocate
all of your points to one tree and master one particular aspect of
your character class or you can opt to diversify your characters
abilities by spreading your Talent Points out into each of the three
Skill Trees. Keep in mind that choosing the latter option will make it
impossible to master one particular Talent aspect. Therein lies the
beauty of being able to sculpt your World of Warcraft character into
your own unique design.