Ability Points, Skill Trees & Talents being considered to replace leveling. Thoughts?

[Keldion]

lolwut? I was with you until this line. Sure it took a long time to get there but PvP is great now.

I don't care for PVP myself but I am unbothered if it exists as a separate mode that doesn't encroach on the core gameplay.

Getting back on topic, any redesign or overhaul of character ability progression is forced to take PVP, Deep Dungeon, etc. into account.

Because of that, I wouldn't expect a talent tree system to be easily implemented. Every new expansion adds more content to the game that can be negatively impacted by such a sweeping change.