It feels like Vengeance loses out

[Festergot-steamwheedle-cartel]

I played Vengeance DH on and off in War Within and with the new elf stuff coming in Midnight was planning on maining Vengeance for the next expansion. Came back on after the patch though and pretty disappointed unfortunately.

1. No Fel-Scarred- This hero spec felt great to play as Vengeance. Focusing on metamorphosis feels great as a tank as it really fills that big bulky fantasy. The power you feel as you transform as everything procs and the heal from devastation was great.
2. Aldrachi Reaver isn’t exciting- Getting some buffs to your glaives doesn’t feel very good. It feels pretty flat on melee specs, you chuck it and it’s back in the blink of an eye. It also requires taking sigil of spite increasing the number of moves you need to be pressing. I actually think this would have been great for Devourer as you would see it would fit better and be seen more on a ranged class, you could even change the visual to a boomeranging scythe.
3. Annihilator visuals don’t match- Annihilator could be pretty fun fantasy of crashing down meteor storms, but at the moment the visual is pretty easy to miss. It also doesn’t feel right having it be the only void theme in the spec. I like building lots of fire moves and am already disappointed that you now have to take spirit bomb, but having void strikes instead of fire/fel meteors is a big shame.

Considering the scarred hero talents changes between fel-scarred and void-scarred depending on your spec it would be nice if annihilator also change to fire/fel visuals for vengeance. Perhaps Sigil of Spite could be a choice node with Spirit Bomb to reduce the number of moves that you need to take if you are going Reaver. The alternative would be returning fel-scarred to vengeance and giving reaver to devourers, but I’m guessing that’s not going to happen.

[Lóthras-argent-dawn]

I whole-heartedly agree. Vengeance was so fun to play in the War Within and a big part of that was how satisfying fel-scarred felt. I loved that it didn’t require me to change my play style much; it just gave me more for doing what I already did. A lot more. I didn’t love Reaver because it forced me to throw my glaive around a lot, which felt a little weird. Annihilator so far is not as fun as fel-scarred was, but I will give it some time to settle into it. My biggest complaint at the moment is #3 here. Particularly because when they were announcing the new void spec, they really made a point of saying that none of the abilities had fel visuals whatsoever, so I’m like what about the other way around? Throwing void around everywhere does not fit with my character. I’d feel so much better about having to change my talent tree if I had fel meteors and effects instead.