Well, I can only speak from my experience. I’ve seen far less slurs and toxicity on the class discords that I see on this forum (but I am active in general as well as here). I also tend to just leave and come back later when I’m on the class discords rather than getting into arguments if someone is tossing slurs around. I go into general here to argue for marginalised people; I go on the class discords for gameplay information.
Is it, though? BW drops off after 15 seconds and immo aura is only up for 50% of the time. Rather like your comments about fiery brand in the VDH discussion, the benefit of BW is limited by how many targets it can affect at a time, in my experience, about 6 or 7, which drastically reduces its value on big pulls.
Thank you for your feedback, that made me happy actually!
The picture is a little more complicated than that. CA is good on trash packs, but it is very minor damage in single target where as BW retains its value on ST as well as in AoE. You can spread BW to priority targets and ignore the padding low HP mobs when you do BW to get maximum value out of it in that situation.
But try experiment with it yourself. I only found value in CoH when playing Venthyr - the rest of the time it was better to run first blood with either CA or BW.
This is what makes M+ so interesting for me. The need to create a build that does the best overall damage in a particular dungeon on a particular week, while also fitting the group composition.
I’ve found this as well, in the few bosses I’ve done of mythic SoD. If the RNG gods are with me and I can get enough extensions on sinful brand, I see my dps jump up. If CoH doesn’t proc… meh. (Although I’ll admit I prefer momentum so I’m not nearly as skilled with any demonic build as I’d like to be.)
Venthyr is really good ST in Sanctum, but it can be really good dps in Tyrannical dungeons as well - since the cleave you loose you make up for on the bosses. Venthyr loose a lot of appeal when you can’t stand glued to the boss and make sure you get all the Chaos Strikes and Annihilations in. As you said, it’s really hard to keep sinful brand extended!
As much as I like the concept of Sinful brand, the fact that the entire gameplay turns into getting as many chaos strikes out as possible, with incredible RNG, makes it it extremely unfun and stressful to play. After having played with demon blades and fel blade for a while, I’ve also started to resent spamming demon’s bite.
Yea I agree with you on this, although it doesn’t bother me quite as much as you let on. Demon blades for sure leaves more room to focus on environment and less on spamming buttons.
