Restoration Shaman Review of Farseer Hero Talents - Ancestral Healing But What is an Ancestor?
26.03.2024 - 14:25
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Mid-March, Blizzard revealed 12 new Hero Talent Trees in a sneak peek at the new system coming with the The War Within expansion.
Our Restoration Shaman guide writer, Theun, offers an early review of the Farseer Shaman Hero Talents that call upon the ancestors to aid you and your allies, but what does an ancestor exactly do and why aren't there more ties to existing ancestral spells?
Hero Talents are an extension of the Talent system designed to explore class fantasy with a third talent tree, separate from your class and specialization. Blizzard has revealed an early preview of Hero Talents coming in the next expansion, The War Within.
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Initial Thoughts
I can sort of see the direction they're heading as it sounds very much like Divine Image for Holy Priest, but it feels… unfinished? We have a lot of spells thematically related to ancestors in our spellbook (as I'll talk about later) and none of the nodes in this Hero Talent Tree mention any of those spells. The choice nodes feel like a simming problem rather than a playstyle choice, the defensive node is very weak, and the capstone doesn't exactly feel like a capstone. As I was initially reading it, I was expecting the capstone to make all of these Ancestors that you're summoning to do something really neat, but instead we just get another way to summon an Ancestor every 45 seconds. It didn't make me excited to be a Farseer Shaman.
Gameplay
How Powerful is Farseer?
This is a hard question to answer as we really don't know much about the Ancestors that we're going to be summoning. There are multiple ways to summon Ancestors, either by or if you also have Nature's Swiftness talented, or randomly via and. I don't think these Ancestors are going to mimick the spells that you cast, but instead will mimick the type of spell you cast. For example, if you cast an AoE heal like Chain Heal, they might also cast a generic AoE heal. If you cast a single target damaging spell like Lightning Bolt, they might fire off a generic single target damaging spell. I have a feeling this is much closer to something like Divine Image rather than something that copies what the player does.
Aside from what the actual Ancestors do, the rest of the tree is quite weak. We have a generic healing increase in both and, a VERY weak defensive choice node between and, and a generic mana increase with. None of these things themselves are all that powerful, so I'm expecting most of the power to come from the Ancestors