World of Warcraft Leveling Guide: WoW Talents for Newbs!

“I remember when I first started playing WoW and I had no clue about talents. I didn't even know they existed until my late teens. Then at that point I was deathly afraid to choose talents fearing I would pick "wrong". Now I love trying out new specs and find this to be one of the most enjoyable parts of WoW.”

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Are you a talentless n00b? It's really ok to admit it here, among friends
-- you wouldn't be the first player in the world to have overlooked (or
been completely befuddled by) talent points. Just take a peek at this
post about a player who purposely skipped training his talent points,
just to see what would happen. If you read through the comments after
the post, you'll find plenty of players who missed training their
talents along the way, either through not knowing that talent points
existed or after becoming paralyzed by the sheer variety of choices.

The talents you choose for your character can completely change the way you
play the game. Your "spec" (specialization) is determined by where
you've distributed your points among the three talent trees available
to your class. So-called "hybrid" classes such as Druids or Paladins
take on entirely different roles depending how they are specced:
tanking, DPSing or healing. For other classes, spec is more of a flavor
tool that determines how your character goes about doing his or her
thing.

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