Leadsalad
Cis-XYite-Nationalist
That choice was usually utility or dps. It's false choice depending on your content.Talent trees were shit in Vanilla but at least you had SOME choice on what and how you wanted to play your dude. The thing that sucked about talent trees is the respec fee and no way to have 2-3 specs saved so that you could change them on the fly depending what was needed. (dual spec was added later) So if you were a healer or tank type you were fucked with respec fees between guild and solo grind activities which were rather harsh considering all the other bullshit you had to buy or grind for while being in a raid guild. Not so much for DPS classes which could make a raid spec work for solo grind, although sometimes not optimal.