Hi
Bake in both rend and hamstring to overpower or mortal strike. Especially as a pvp guy both slam and even more so hamstring feels really bad to having to use a global for when almost all other melee can snare passively.
Just remove slam and make execute hit harder as a finisher should.
Also execute giving mortal wounds is a weird dynamic. If i want to finish off a target then why would i put a DoT on them, doesnt make sense at all.
I feel like all the abilities that got removed was abilities that wasn´t in the way of our rotation and kept the annyoing abilitites that feel bad to press and doesn´t really fit in for a smooth rotation.
Also the AoE rotation is a mess, sweeping strikes, cleave, Whirlwind, Thunderclap.
“If you dont like bleeds just go fury”
Welll… Fury now has 4 different bleeds to keep track off and more rotational abilities than probably any other spec. Wasn´t the goal of the expansion to streamline all specs?
Give us back annihilator and save a button
There’s a lot to unpack in your post but with regards to baking in hamstring to abilities I can say the following.
I’m always dubious of using what others have as justification for the same outcome on your own part. The context of why a snare is baked into another class/spec’s ability is different when you look at the whole package. So it’s difficult to identify a need in isolation alone. Secondly, if you go down the route of giving everything that every other spec/class has (which would always be the best of) no spec/class would have any weaknesses and thus you have homogenisation which we don’t want.
With the changes in Midnight you’ll be able to apply hamstring through javilneer (which in essence is baking in). My only criticism is that of stormbolt for a number of reasons;
- With the changes to DR rules (immunity after 2 applications) this makes applying hamstring through this less frequent (opportunity)
- If you use stormbolt and charge (to close gap), which a lot of warriors tend to do, if they trinket they will trinket both stun and hamstring
- If you use stormbolt you should be doing so (really in my opinion) for a kill; on a healer as cc or your main target (but then why would you care if their snared if you’re going to kill them anyway)
- So the only real means of using stormbolt (to snare with hamstring) is when the target has no trinket and you have no intention of landing the kill (but end up creating needless DR)
Wrecking/shattering throw and spear are good uses but not really that frequent enough to add real value (although admittedly do have niche uses)
Lastly, other changes in Midnight; tactician has been changed such that ALL rage costing abilities have a 50% chance of proccing a charge of overpower. Hamstring is the cheapest way at 10 rage of proccing overpower. So you could cheekily abuse this on a Rogue using evasion (despite knowing that HS will be dodged) to land overpowers which can’t be dodged. Remember that HS is a half CD at 0.75 secs and thus 2 HS’ for 20 rage and 1GCD (by the law of averages) give you 1 overpower. Given that Dreadnought has been increased in Midnight by something near 180% it’s going to hit harder than what you’re used to now. So being able to land an overpower every other GCD is going to hurt (this is obviously rage dependant on HS use). Regardless, whether it appears or not, HS is baked indirectly to overpower as an upfront cost. Just make sure you aren’t capped at 2 charges of overpower!