World of Warcraft has a very ambitious plan and with the upcoming release of The War Within, the team at Blizzard has introduced a brand new Hero Talents system for the expansion.
We will be taking a close look at one of the three Hero Talent trees for Evokers and examining just how powerful we can expect the talents to be.
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WoW The War Within Chronowarden Evoker Hero Talent Tree
Since there is a lot to cover in the initial Hero Talent tree, we will be separately examining all of the nodes so we can get a better understanding of the core concepts.
Chronowarden Evoker Hero Talent Tree Keystone
Chrono Flame:
- Living Flame is enhanced with Bronze magic, repeating 15% of the damage or healing you dealt to the target in the last 5 seconds as Arcane, up to a fixed amount.
Chronowarden Evoker
Hero Talent Tree Row 1
Warp:
- Hover now warps you through time and space and its cooldown is reduced by 5 seconds. Hover continues to allow Evoker spells to be cast while moving.
Temporal Burst:
- Tip the Scales overloads you with temporal energy, increasing your Haste, movement speed, and cooldown recovery rate by 2%, ramping up to 40% over 20 seconds.
Reverberations:
- Spiritbloom heals for an additional 30% over 8 seconds. Upheaval deals 30% additional damage over 8 seconds.
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Chronowarden Evoker
Hero Talent Tree
Row 2
Choice Node: Interdimensional Phase & Motes of Acceleration
Interdimensional Phase:
- Warp reduces damage taken by 30%, starting high and reducing over 2 seconds.
Motes of Acceleration:
- Warp leaves a trail of Motes of Acceleration. Allies who come in contact with a mote gain 20% increased movement speed for 30 seconds.
Threads of Fate:
- Casting an Essence ability during Temporal Burst causes a nearby ally to gain a Thread of Fate for 15 seconds, granting them a chance to echo their damage or healing spells, dealing 15% of the amount again.
Primacy:
- For each damage over time effect from Upheaveal or Spiritbloom, gain 3% Haste, up to 9%.
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Chronowarden Evoker
Hero Talent Tree Row 3
Choice Node: Careful Contemplation & Time Convergence
Careful Contemplation:
- Your Intellect and Stamina are increased by 10%, but your cooldowns are increased by 10%.
Time Convergence:
- Abilities with a 45-second or longer cooldown grant 10% Intellect for 15 seconds. Defensive abilities grant 10% Stamina for 15 seconds. Essence spells extend the duration by 1 second.
Choice Node: Master of Destiny & Golden Opportunity
Mastery of Destiny:
- Empower spells amplify all your active Threads of Fate, increasing their power by 100% for 8 seconds, stacking up to 2 times.
Golden Opportunity:
- Echo & Prescience have a 25% chance to not incur a cooldown. Echo has a 25% chance to not cost Essence.
Instability Matrix:
- Each time you cast an empower spell, unstable time magic reduces its cooldown by up to 15 seconds. Echo has a 25% chance to not cost Essence.
Chronowarden Evoker
Hero Talent Tree Capstone
Afterimage:
- Empower spells send up to 3 Chrono Flames to your targets. Chrono Flames have a small chance to grant you Essence Burst.
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Summary
Overall, this Hero Talent tree aims to increase the utility of Evokers whilst not only giving way to making them stronger healing capabilities but also giving the Augmentation spec some more damage as well so whichever role you decide to play, you will have adequate stats and abilities from these new talents.
It surely is exciting to see that else will be added in WoW's newest expansion. Hopefully, the new direction and design philosophy will lend its way to a better and more enjoyable experience for players. As of now, it is difficult to examine and predict whether or not the new Hero Talent trees will break the game or offer insufficient stats, abilities, etc. to make a big enough impact on gameplay.
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