Save your specs with Talented
by Eliah Hecht 
Apr 22nd 2009 at 9:00AM
However, I don't get annoyed, because I have something that many of you apparently don't: Talented. Talented is an addon for managing talent specs, with several nice features:
- Import/export to/from Wowhead, MMO-Champion, and official Blizzard talent calculators.
- In-game talent calculator, from which you can build and save your own templates.
- Apply a talent build (imported or built yourself) with just one click.
- Set a build as your "goal" talent build, to remind yourself where you meant to fill in points while leveling.
- Full support for dual specs and pet talents; the SpecTabs plugin also makes it a little easier to swap specs.
- Shows all three talent trees at once, no scrolling required (this would be enough to make me use the mod right there).
Honestly, I can't see any compelling reason to play without Talented. Although the idea of a mod setting your talents for you might be slightly worrying, I've been using it since Burning Crusade and never had it do anything wrong.
So now every time talents get wiped, I just load up my saved talent spec (or import a new one if I need a new one), click "Apply template," and I'm good to go. By the way, if you've been reading our Addon Spotlight column, you already know about Talented -- and if not, why not?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
tripdream Apr 22nd 2009 9:07AM
I've been using this addon for as long as I can remember, and with the 3.1 talent dump along with the one we got hit with on Tuesday, it's made life so much easier for me. It excels at allowing you to create talent templates before committing to the build, giving you a chance to play around with it a little bit. It works exactly like the talent calculators you see on Wowhead and MMO Champion, but it's just in-game. When Tuesday's talent dump hit, my guildmates were talking about how much they hated having to redo their talents, so I turned them on to Talented.
Riley Apr 22nd 2009 9:46AM
"It excels at allowing you to create talent templates before committing to the build, giving you a chance to play around with it a little bit."
This is now included in WoW, you can enable it in interface/gameplay
soatari Apr 22nd 2009 10:12AM
@Riley
Yes, but it doesn't let you save templates for later use, like Talented.
Phaelan Apr 22nd 2009 10:42AM
this s a great addon, I've suggested it a couple times in threads over the last couple of weeks to people. yeah yeah, Blizz added something similar to the UI but it's not even close to what talented can do.
Freak Mojo Apr 22nd 2009 9:08AM
Thread hijack alert!!!!!
What's a good coordinate addon?
Jason Apr 22nd 2009 9:13AM
I use Titan Panel. It provides coordinates, tracks gold across all my characters, shows free bag space, estimates time to level, tracks gold earned per hour, estimates repair costs on gear, and a bunch of other things I've never looked at.
rosencratz Apr 22nd 2009 9:32AM
Titan panel here too.
I've been using it since vanilla wow and it's never let me down. Probably a little too much of a "waste of space" for many add on enthusiasts though.(I use the top bar not the lower bar)
Quote the Raven Apr 22nd 2009 9:32AM
Agreed with Jason. Titan panel is an excellent (And to me indispensable) add-on.
Freak Mojo Apr 22nd 2009 9:32AM
Well TitanPanl;e sounds awfully bloated.. useful but bloated. I hated Auctioneer since it took so much time just to switch toons.
I was just looking for coordinates so when I check stuff online, I can reference it easier in game.
Thanks though... I'll check into it.
Neyssa Apr 22nd 2009 9:41AM
For coordinates, I use this addon: (Suki's Minimap Coords)
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/project-5747.aspx
As simple as possible: it writes coords on your minimap like 36,45. Thats all. More than enough for me, I dont use titanpanel anymore either.
Freak Mojo Apr 22nd 2009 10:01AM
Thanks Neyssa - That's about all I need. I like to run a lean and mean WoW machine.
I'll check that out tonight.
Malkia Apr 22nd 2009 11:02PM
Coordinate? Map points? TomTom! You can even set points in it to go to. And it has a coordinates box you can enable or disable as needed.
jaynitan Apr 22nd 2009 11:20AM
screw addons unless you need a constant display of coords.
/script px,py=GetPlayerMapPosition("Avieada")
/script DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(format("( %s ) %i,%i",GetZoneText(),px *100,py *100));
Insert your name instead of Avieada.
Quick simple and doesn't waste addon memory JUST to do coords.
Spam it if traveling to a location for a 'steady' stream of coords.
Also the coords are (0,0) to (100,100) (0,0) is upper left (100,100) is lower right. (50,50) is dead center of map. so use that for heading roughly to a location.
epic Apr 22nd 2009 2:28PM
TomTom....nuff said
Cosmic Cleric Apr 22nd 2009 3:58PM
Another vote for TomTom here (and Lightheaded!).
Klam Apr 22nd 2009 9:11AM
Sounds interesting.. i'm going to experiment with it by learning one main spec and leaving the second spec unlearnt.
I'm hoping i can save the unlearned tree using talented.
This will hopefully enable me to load other unlearned specs giving me a cheap and quick way to have more than 2 specs... hopefully here comes a Prot/Ret and Holy pally ;)
Foxfyr Apr 22nd 2009 9:28AM
Ummm. What?
Fen Apr 22nd 2009 9:36AM
Yeah, I'm with Foxfyr... What?
rosencratz Apr 22nd 2009 9:40AM
@ Klam - I think you've misunderstood what the add on does. All it allows you to do is practice entering your talents and loading talents in BUT you can only load talents in when you can normally do so.
You can't use it for a magical third spec.
Darxide Apr 22nd 2009 9:46AM
From what i can tell, he is using talented to save a third spec so that he can switch as easily as blizzard own duel spec system. however, by doing this it removes the "switch anywhere i want" mentality as well as cost you quite a bit if you are going to switch alot.