World of Warcraft disappointed me again. I should really have come to expect it by now.
For those of you that don't know WoW uses a talent tree system a lot like Diablo. So that a player could customize aspects of their character. Great in theory. Except for if you are not using a very specific set of talents you are not viable for endgame content.
I had managed to make a nonstandard talent set and still compete on the raid level. I enjoyed being a special unique flower. Now however blizzard made the next teir of equipment require a talent in order to use it to it's full potential. The equipment's big thing is that it applies a rather significant buff to a particular item on the talent tree.
An item on the talent tree I did not have and do not like, even with the buff, thus the equipment is useless to me. However you MUST have that equipment with all bonuses to remain on par with the content, there are literally NO alternative sets of equipment in high level WoW. It's have this gear for this class and type or GTFO. No other pieces of equipment even come close.
So I went and respecced losing the majority of my "special flower"-ness so I could get that talent(Feral Druid: Blood in the Water) so I could use that gear, that requires me to use a skill that I find less than useless in a raid setting(
Ferocious Bite), which is what the gear is intended for. I lost a good portion of critical hit rate, bear form survivability, and became a little more restricted when shapeshifting.
I am now exactly like every other feral druid in the game thanks to stat railroading. Bah. Donno why I still play that game. Probably just because of most of my friends being on it.