Class Trees

[ItMe]

Would absolutely like not precisely skill trees, but talent trees

About how many talents do you think a tree would need to be healthy and worthwhile?
1 unlocked at 50 and every 10 levels after like, or in place of, capstone abilities?

[Kiarin]

Methinks the more the merrier :-). If there could be 100 tier talents' tree, I personally would welcome it.

But this is 1) exponentially harder for devs to invent, imply, and most importantly - balance,
and 2) exponentially harder for players to sort out.

So as a golden mean, maybe, starting from lvl 50 and then every 5 levels. This way, a tree will have 7 tiers. And, let's say, 3 talents to choose one on each tier. This means 21 talents to invent for each class - more or less reasonable. And a plenty of freedom to customize your build.
This is, however, totally debatable. For example, if talents would have grades (!), there could be significantly less of them.

[Razard]

So as a golden mean, maybe, starting from lvl 50 and then every 5 levels. This way, a tree will have 7 tiers. And, let's say, 3 talents to choose one on each tier. This means 21 talents to invent for each class - more or less reasonable. And a plenty of freedom to customize your build.

But, even using this theoretical number as a jumping off point, that would mean Balancing a total of 336 talents against each other. With potential combinations into the tens of thousands. Each having to be balanced within thier respective roles.

Or I can switch my weapon and get a different flavour of the class I am currently playing. I can equip a Rod for massive booms, Rapier for lots of rezzes or a Book if I want to be broken 1.5 patches into an expansion. That's the Egi Book, not the Fairy Book, that's a different kettle of worms I don't want to go into.