yeah, it could easily be removed or baked in i think. generally not too happy with removing stuff, but symbols doesn’t feel like it needs to exist. probably won’t macro it though cause of dance duration and no first dance.
premed or something like that would be cool. having both slice and rupture without premed feels kinda weird in the opener. could also just set you to 2 points when you’re in stealth if you have 0 or 1 if they dont wanna add premed as a button.
SnD doesn’t really fit any rotation. All its benefits could be baked into other mechanics. It’s just needless clutter, and pressing it doesn’t feel like you are doing anything. SnD should be retired entirely from the game. If Blizz really wants us to use another outdated Finisher as part of our Rotation, they could make Expose Armor a thing (for Sub, that would effectively take the role of Find Weakness).
Without SnD, there wouldn’t be any need for Premeditation. I also agree, that Symbols could be removed without affecting Sub in any meaningful way. Would also make balancing a bit easier, since there would be one less thing to have to tune.
You are so wrong in wanting to bake it in, because your missing one of the largest benefits of it not being baked in- you gain a huge chunk of energy, even currently you sometimes are wasting dps to use it prematurely as you dance and can save your self pooling when you would of had the energy if you hadn’t wasted that.
Yes you want SoD up during dance but after playing the spec for a long while I’ve realized there is much more to SoD than the raw damage it provides and it is a tool which you can use to smooth out your dance time if you learn to use it correctly.
Sometimes you will want to dance on high energy and it’s better to dance first, burn some energy into filler them SoD below 60 energy before eviscerate and doing it this was leaves your uptime completely free of down time auto attacking