Spend 10 More Points Across Three Trees and New Talents in Midnight

Posted 2025/08/21 at 8:32 PM by Archimtiros

interview with Alter Time

What's unclear is exactly how these points will be distributed, as 3 extra points in the class tree does not necessarily mean 3 points at the bottom of the class tree. It's very possible that they instead choose to extend each of the tiered "gates" to force players to spend an extra point at the top, middle, and bottom of the tree instead, but only time will tell.

Alter Time (translated)

During the World of Warcraft community event at Gamescom 2025, AlterTime had the opportunity to speak with the game’s developers.

In our conversation with Paul Kubit, Associate Game Director, he shared how many new talent points will be introduced with the Midnight expansion, how they’ll be distributed across our talent trees, and revealed a new type of talent called “apex.”

Here’s how the talent points will be distributed:

3 points for the class tree, although no new talents will be added there.
3 points for Hero talents, which will introduce a brand-new talent line.
4 points for the specialization tree, where the new “apex” talents will appear. Of these:
2 will enhance existing abilities
1 will modify an ability entirely

More details will be revealed during the panel scheduled for Saturday at Gamescom.

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Comment by FelrynBtwdoes this mean spriest will finally get their interrupt without sacrificing damage or nahComment by KarthusTeemoI see we're barreling towards the same problem Wrath had because of the talent trees.Comment by Hellboy999does this mean spriest will finally get their interrupt without sacrificing damage or nahComment by EraSpladeany warrior rework planned ?Comment by holowizardits like EX skills from dragon nest, love it!Comment by HranthaerI see we're barreling towards the same problem Wrath had because of the talent trees.Comment by snokesmaloneSurprised they aren't taking 10 points away from some classesComment by SharkonI see we're barreling towards the same problem Wrath had because of the talent trees.Comment by KudoCan they please also put the 3 berserk talents into 1 like we have been begging for!
Interested to see how they do the rework for more talents, be nice to see some additional talentsComment by MaximusPMoh no please stop... more talent points don't make us stronger if the game is balanced for it. this doesn't really matter, only makes the game harder to balanceComment by thirty8overheaddoes this mean spriest will finally get their interrupt without sacrificing damage or nahComment by FLambdadoes this mean spriest will finally get their interrupt without sacrificing damage or nahComment by fatgunnApex talent sounds coolComment by CashmereWizardI see we're barreling towards the same problem Wrath had because of the talent trees.Comment by minimaxirdoes this mean spriest will finally get their interrupt without sacrificing damage or nahComment by CocoMachineany warrior rework planned ?Comment by VekxniI like this. I don’t need a ton of new stuff added to any class. Just some refinement for a few classes like Rogue. A lot of the classes are in really good spots currently.Comment by ReleirenusSurprised they aren't taking 10 points away from some classesComment by DromesI guess it's fine that it'll be mainly enhancing or changing existing abilities instead of pure bloat, but isn't that kinda the core of Hero talents? Feels kinda shaky and not that well thought-out. I assumed the sort of extra middle row would be for these additional 10 level/points jumps that would ensure the talent trees remain a stable, (relatively) easy to balance foundation.Comment by CrittuSurely this means DK gets Abomination Limb in these talents….. right ?

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