by Kethron » Mon Nov 10, 2014 12:35 pm
So . . . after a 4 - 5 year absence, I re-activated my account. I've been playing the heck out of SWTOR, but needed to scale back a bit and take a break before Shadow of Revan (the new expansion) hits.
SO MANY CHANGES!
Still, even with the changes, getting back into WoW is like a really old but comfortable pair of shoes. There are newer, probably more comfortable shoes out there, but the old ones still fit so well. You probably don't want to wear them all the time, but putting them on, just now and then, makes you feel good.
Ok - enough shoe analogies.
With SWTOR's upcoming changes, they're going away from the "skill tree" to a "discipline" system. Having just jumped back into WoW for the first time in years, I see where they got their inspiration. No more skill trees in WoW. The way you allocate talents is much the same way you'll allocated discipline skills for SWTOR. I can definitely see why both have done/are doing this - it simplifies the rather convoluted and outdated 3-tier skill tree system. It certainly made my re-introduction into WoW a little easier. I was up and running with Leios, my Blood Deathknight, in short order.
Also - I'm somehow in possession of two guilds. On the Horde side, good old Rmuk the orc is now the sole member of the Skorchers. Alliance side, I now control some guild called Solis Ortus. The leadership had been absent for more than a year, so I was given the option to grab control. I did. I think this was a guild that I was in with Jeremy and friends for our Alliance characters - after we moved the majority of our toons Horde side.