Hey Joda, if you have your own idea how should our talent system be than feel free to share it with us! We are checking all ideas you post.
Kind regards,
Astinos
Greetings,
The reality of talent tree is what above posters have posted, there will always be a superior option in a pool of options given, aka the "meta". The thing about metas though, they are only metas for a given objective or event. A PvP meta usually won't be the meta for PvE. Small scale PvP meta is usually different than a large scale PvP meta, so on and so forth. Even basic concepts like stat choices has a meta. You won't see warriors running around with intellect gear (even though they can) because strength is usually the "meta" and makes your character the most powerful.
Talent tree system is just another option based system that lets player choose what they want to be good at with their character. I'd have to play with my plants and really think about this and how we could minimize or balance the system to make the majority of the player base happy, and feel "meta" at at least one aspect of the game.
With Love,
Joda