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Recently, Ghostcrawler posted many informations on the official site, the important news is the experiment and talent system, now let's come to have a look.

Within each of these talent trees are many, many choices. And while cookie cutter specs eventually develop, the option is still there to allow for whatever spec or combinations of specs you decide works best for you. The rest of the world be damned, it's your choice. However there are some exceptions to this. These occur in talents that we all need to play, more or less. Or in more specific terms there are talents that the rest of the tree is designed around. One such talent is Titan's Grip, and according to Ghostcrawler Blizzard is okay with that.

This paradigm present a deviation of sorts, where in previous iterations of talent trees Blizzard has made a point to stay away from any major defining talent. This is not necessarily a bad thing, in that these talents are useful and provide a great aspect to the game. However at the same time, if people are going to be forced to spec into them, either because they're so great or because every other talent essentially requires them, then why not just make the super-uber-awesome talent part of the root class abilities?

Instead of having Titan's Grip be something a Warrior has to spec into, why not just make it an ability that only works when spec'd deep into the fury tree?

The daily activity by Ghostcrawler has lead to him become a staple of sites such as WoW Insider and MMO-Champion. Every day you can see at least one or two items from him. We here at WoW Insider are particularly watchful of what he says, since his posts usually contain detailed information about why something was done and what might be done in the future. That's great content that we like to talk a lot about. However despite the volumes Ghostcrawler publishes each day, some people feel that his welcome has ran out – that this experiment of him providing community interaction has failed. Some feel that his penchant for forum interaction is time wasted, that he's done nothing more than incite riots with certain classes, and that his demeanor is less than appealing. There was a forum post today about this very topic, but that in itself is nothing new as lots of people have been QQing over Ghostcrawler for a while.
When looking back over his posts a few things become evident.

He feels free to speak his mind on the finer points of a given subject
He rarely makes sweeping statements about classes or other aspects of the game
His statements often times match up with statements released by other blue posters
He provides a personality as much as he provide information
He has no problem saying something is broken
He has a problem with useless trolls
He likes gin in his coffee

This all leads to a very interesting, if yet delicate in some circles, subject to think about. Has Ghostcrawler's presence hindered or helped World of Warcraft and the greater WoW community? Good luck to Ghostcrawler. How do you think?