Comments on: WotLK talent review http://www.tankhard.com/2008/08/24/wotlk-talent-review/ Tanking Hard since 1876! Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:27:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: sheldreyn http://www.tankhard.com/2008/08/24/wotlk-talent-review/comment-page-1/#comment-333 sheldreyn Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:18:49 +0000 http://www.tankhard.com/?p=166#comment-333 ok repost with less "" <b>Taste for Blood</b> is bugged, it does absolutely nothing currently. My guess is they simply forgot to flag it as NYI <b>Justified Killing</b> Will move back to a prot talent in the next build, I’m quite sure of it. This is a tanking talent, at least it screams it. <b>Sudden Death</b> I will simply never ever spec for it in its current state. Sorry but I am already rage starved, I won’t dump all my rage in an ability that doesn’t scale much. If it did allowed for a free execute (base dmg and still regardless of the target’s HP) on the other end, I *might* take it until I outscale it. <b>Unrelentless Assault</b> Could be great, could suck, it will depends mostly if the taste for blood really really allows for a full 5 seconds of Overpower availability (which could allow us to use it as much as 3 times if you have an excellent response time and low latency, but in most case it will still be 2 overpowers) if not I won’t put more than 1 point in it <b>Improved Slam</b> I really hope they will make slam stop resetting the swing timer, this would lower our dependence of using a swing timer mod. But I can live without such a buff <b>Strength of Arms</b> I don’t intend of taking this talent, so lackluster <b>Blood Frenzy</b> The former staple ability the 33/28 build has been nerfed pretty hard. Was it necessary ? Maybe, but still 2 pts for 2 %… they should make it 1 pt for 2 % <b>Trauma</b> Your druid and Rogues will love you for that just like they loved you for blood frenzy. Will that be enough to cover the BF nerf ? I doubt it but it’s still better than nothing I guess. It will still provide synergy with your own bleed effects <b>Wrecking Crew</b> I love it, however the loss of flurry makes your attack so slow that it gets hard to stack 5 times. The only occasion I could do so was when I was in Zerker stance and using the usual slam/ms/ww rotation something they seem to want to push out of. They’ll have to work it out. Maybe drop it to a 3 pts talents and provide 5 % per stack instead. Even then you wouldn’t have the effect up all the time. <b>Bladestorm</b> Self CC ? No thanks anyway the only PvE use I see would be for AoE packs ok repost with less “”

Taste for Blood
is bugged, it does absolutely nothing currently. My guess is they simply forgot to flag it as NYI

Justified Killing
Will move back to a prot talent in the next build, I’m quite sure of it. This is a tanking talent, at least it screams it.

Sudden Death
I will simply never ever spec for it in its current state. Sorry but I am already rage starved, I won’t dump all my rage in an ability that doesn’t scale much. If it did allowed for a free execute (base dmg and still regardless of the target’s HP) on the other end, I *might* take it until I outscale it.

Unrelentless Assault
Could be great, could suck, it will depends mostly if the taste for blood really really allows for a full 5 seconds of Overpower availability (which could allow us to use it as much as 3 times if you have an excellent response time and low latency, but in most case it will still be 2 overpowers) if not I won’t put more than 1 point in it

Improved Slam
I really hope they will make slam stop resetting the swing timer, this would lower our dependence of using a swing timer mod. But I can live without such a buff

Strength of Arms
I don’t intend of taking this talent, so lackluster

Blood Frenzy
The former staple ability the 33/28 build has been nerfed pretty hard. Was it necessary ? Maybe, but still 2 pts for 2 %… they should make it 1 pt for 2 %

Trauma
Your druid and Rogues will love you for that just like they loved you for blood frenzy. Will that be enough to cover the BF nerf ? I doubt it but it’s still better than nothing I guess. It will still provide synergy with your own bleed effects

Wrecking Crew
I love it, however the loss of flurry makes your attack so slow that it gets hard to stack 5 times. The only occasion I could do so was when I was in Zerker stance and using the usual slam/ms/ww rotation something they seem to want to push out of. They’ll have to work it out. Maybe drop it to a 3 pts talents and provide 5 % per stack instead. Even then you wouldn’t have the effect up all the time.

Bladestorm
Self CC ? No thanks anyway the only PvE use I see would be for AoE packs

]]> By: fustigator http://www.tankhard.com/2008/08/24/wotlk-talent-review/comment-page-1/#comment-328 fustigator Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:57:56 +0000 http://www.tankhard.com/?p=166#comment-328 Justified Killing (2 ranks): This appeared when Stalwart Protector dissapeared from deep protection. Hopefully Blizzard will come to it's senses and put it where it belongs. Currently it's so deep in arms you'd have to give up either some of Cruelty or Shockwave to get it for tanking. Riiiiight. Unrelenting Assault might be a handy talent to pick up if you want to stay arms but need/want to tank(or off-tank) without respeccing. More Revenge can't hurt. Only problem is now you won't be spamming Shield Block all the time; You'd need a lot of block, parry, and dodge to make this work. Either that or a lot of incoming attacks. The only use I could ever see for Sudden Death is if you knew you had bloodrage available; or if for some reason you went this deep in arms and decided you needed to pull out a shield for spell reflecting a mage and your MS would suck with a 1hder. Justified Killing (2 ranks):
This appeared when Stalwart Protector dissapeared from deep protection. Hopefully Blizzard will come to it’s senses and put it where it belongs. Currently it’s so deep in arms you’d have to give up either some of Cruelty or Shockwave to get it for tanking. Riiiiight.
Unrelenting Assault might be a handy talent to pick up if you want to stay arms but need/want to tank(or off-tank) without respeccing. More Revenge can’t hurt. Only problem is now you won’t be spamming Shield Block all the time; You’d need a lot of block, parry, and dodge to make this work. Either that or a lot of incoming attacks.
The only use I could ever see for Sudden Death is if you knew you had bloodrage available; or if for some reason you went this deep in arms and decided you needed to pull out a shield for spell reflecting a mage and your MS would suck with a 1hder.

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