Talents are still obsolete for most builds, because the talents themselves suck. Some of them are great, some are decent, and the rest aren't worth the skill points. Instead of making the trade completely one-sided, they should have worked on rebalancing the talents so that you have many choices of talents you WANT. That doesn't mean nerfing them until they are all crap, that means buffing the crap ones until you cant pick just one.
Ever since the beta I've been saying that the game really needed more Talents, and more good Talents. There are so many possibilities for Talents to be useful for making specific builds, but Larian doesn't seem to have seen all the potential which was there.
The EE helped fix a couple of the bad ones, but it did a lot less in that area than I was hoping. I mean, Weatherproof is still in the EE with the same absurd Geo 5 requirement that it had in vanilla.
