Goodbye skill trees?

[Neves Eanur]

Yeah... this'll be interesting.

http://www.swtor.com/info/news/blog/20141006

[Qorbin]

O God it's the NGE all over again. Maybe we can use different weapons now

[Derzis]

Maybe we can use different weapons now

Do I smell Gunslingers with sniper rifles ?

[Neves Eanur]

Do I smell Gunslingers with sniper rifles ?

Doubtful. Considering all this is a restructuring of current skill trees. It'll just give us more options with passive abilities between Advanced Class skill trees. The weapons and abilities will work the same.

[Arracos]

This is gonna be fun to figure out what maximizes our abilities in a certain roll

[Riike]

No longer are you forced to purchase skills that are, in essence, necessary for your character to function; you simply get them automatically as you level up and progress down what we call the Discipline Path.

Oh yeah? I want my credits back then

With Disciplines, we can focus on creating strong and fun play styles from level 10 on, without having to worry about how people are spending 50 skill points and whether some people are making bad decisions or if others are finding crazy untested combinations that vastly exceed what we want to happen.

Oh brother....

[Neves Eanur]

Let me know how that goes Riike. The largest thing I don't like about this is it'll make it harder to determine what skills/passives your opponent has in PvP by just taking a glance at their bar. Curious to see how shaking this will be to PvP. I doubt it'll impact PvE nearly as much.

[Corth]

isn't this what WoW did?

[Viozaer]

A lot of fine tuning in everyone's future.

[Riike]

At least that makes CATs easier to teach

[Neves Eanur]

At least that makes CATs easier to teach

With the new flexibility I am seeing that can come. It may make them harder.

EDIT: The core of a spec will remain the same, but optional tools from other trees will become available. Though we don't know the extent of it yet. Livestream should reveal more tomorrow.

[Dany]

Do I smell Gunslingers with sniper rifles ?

Shit, there's a standing exception stating if Gunslingers can use sniper rifles they'd be let into our ranks.

Our training is going to have to do a little evolving with this, but it'll be fun , depending on what the Utilities are and what the limits are though we could very well be facing NGE 2.0 *He said with trepidation.*

[Viozaer]

Someone with no life will spend several days and weeks testing various builds, then post up an ePeen stroking, "Look at the best DPS/Tank/Heal build in the game" and everybody else will pretty much follow it.

I agree with Neves, CAT courses with have to evolve focusing more on base mechanics with a lot of "if you see this, then this will be happening" sub-texts.

Adapt and Overcome, or:

Utrinque Paratus

[Derzis]

"Look at the best DPS/Tank/Heal build in the game" and everybody else will pretty much follow it.

When if comes to pve, pretty much. But, in pvp, things will be different I think, like there are in WoW: "Should I get +15% dmg, or a 4 sec stun against this comp ?"

[Dany]

Utrinque Paratus

You paratroopers have a much better motto than me: Ambitiose sed Ineptum