when a player gets to level 10, each level up afterward earns one talent point to be put into one of three class-specific talent trees. different classes have different types of talents that are divided into three "talent trees", which are dps (damage per second), tanking (taking damage), and healing (healing damage). putting points into the dps tree may make them do more damage to enemies, putting points into the tanking tree may make them take less damage, while putting points into the healing tree may make them heal for more damage. however, a talent may not affect it directly.