Terms of Engagement
Talent
Requires Hunter (Survival)
Requires level 15
Harpoon deals (50% of Attack power) Physical damage and generates 20 Focus over 10 sec. Killing an enemy resets the cooldown of Harpoon.
Couple of points (and some subpoints) to make here:
1 - The tooltip neglects to mention that the cooldown reset component of this talent only applies whenever you kill a target that yields experience or honour. It’s worded like the Predator talent (Feral Druid Tiger’s Fury cd reset on killing a bleeding mob), but it behaves more like the Swift Hand of Justice trinket (heals on kills granting exp/honour).
2 - Why have this restriction in the first place?
- Looking at how fast you can solo trivial content, Survival is currently the slowest of the 3 Hunter specs (it lacks Multi-Shot and a little ability called Barrage). I love questing on Survival, but only when I’m using Terms of Engagement. I love zooming through old content too, but not as Survival, because it really creams my corn that for some unfathomable reason Terms of Engagement doesn’t work there. To those who will argue that removing the restriction would make Survival TOO FAST, I say, are you allergic to fun? Also no, my triple-leaping-double-charging-whirlwind-spamming Warrior would still give it a run for its money.
- As for balancing the endgame viability of the talent, it is not currently recommended for M+, Raids, Arenas, or RBGs; nor would removing the restriction affect the viability of this talent in any of the above. I’d be ok with it being the worst choice in most situations if it fulfilled its niche of being the fun/speedy talent used in trivial content. But it doesn’t. Imagine if Trailblazer (which incidentally decreases in value the more harpooning you do) only worked in current expansion zones.
So, there we have it. I’d love to hear what other people think about making this talent function in trivial content, and if Blizzard are reading, I’d love to hear why it doesn’t.
TL;DR
Let me reset my Harpoon when questing in low level zones and raids!