We need to talk about Neurotoxin. On February 13th 2020 this PvP talent received some changes, that basically made it do nothing:
- Neurotoxin now increases the cooldown of affected spells by 1 sec, down from 3 sec.
- Neurotoxin now has a 45 second cooldown, up from 25 sec.
- Neurotoxin now has a 3 sec duration, down from 10 sec.
- Developers note: Unfortunately, we are unable to fix a number of technical issues with this spell at this time. We’re working on a fix for it that we hope to include in 8.1.5.
Now that affected spells receive 1 second cooldown instead of 3 seconds, the talent does nothing of value since 1 second is lower than average global cooldown on a spell of ability. Looking at the fact that the talent is still in the same state on live servers and beta/PTR servers (according to wowhead), I’m worried it’s never going to get fixed. This is one of the few PvP talents for Assasination with an interesting mechanic so having it being useful again would be great.