The problem with this thinking is that it's all about level 50 PvP. If you move the talents up the tree, you are changing the PvE leveling dynamic of the class. If I, as a TK sage, can't get TK Wave as my 11 point talent, what are you going to give me instead? How much playtesting and rebalancing do we need to make sure that's fair for all levels of play both in PvE and PvP? And once you've accomplished all that testing and balancing.... what about all the other talents you mentioned? This simply doesn't seem like a feasible solution. A better one would be to disincentivize hybrid spec in other ways. For example, take Wrath. Right now, it procs all the time and can apply to both crushing darkness and chain lightning, whichever one happens to be off cooldown. So put a limit on how often it can proc, like once per 10 seconds or so. That makes it much less useful to hybrid spec, since you can get that once per 10 second instant chain lightning from pure lightning spec, anyway. Or if you don't like that, make it so it only reduces the casting time to 0 for *specific* abilities. Basically, the more strict synergy you enforce within a tree, the less incentive anyone will have to do a hybrid spec. But you don't want to take it too far.... it'd be nice for hybrid to be a viable option, still.