Friday, April 13, 2012

MoP Scent of Blood

[:1]Scent of Blood: Reworked: Your successful main-hand auto attacks have a chance to increase the healing and minimum healing done by your next Death Strike within 20 sec by 15%, and to generate 10 Runic Power. This effect stacks up to 5 times.

It explicitly states main hand. Does this mean DW might come back for tanking? Or will they pull the mainhand out of the tooltip down the road
Attacking with a 2H is considered a main-hand attack.

What it's actually doing is capping the return from SoB for DW, making SoB weaker for DW (relative to uncapped and proccing off either hand).
What Euliat said, this is yet another nail in DW tankings already well sealed casket.

Its dead, move on.
killing one of the few points dw tanking had an argument for existing.

i approve blizz
It says main hand because it would proc off both main and off hand otherwise. Sudden doom for unholy had that problem at start and made it machine gun deathcoils and ghoul transformations. Since frost is the intended dual wield spec, they converted it to main hand only, which lead to poor strike damage and no where near as many procs.

Kinda wish they do to us what they did to warriors to hammer it home. From vanilla to wrath, all specs of warriors could dual wield (actually got duel wield arms and prot wars before). When cata came they removed it baseline and gave it to fury as a spec bonus.
on the other side

if Sudden Doom and Scent of Blood were to share the proc mechanics of KM - yes, DW would very much be viable - at least, thats what happend to DW unholy before the 'nerfbat' hits on sudden doom

add on some other adjustments like certain attacks deals with offhand, or even extra damage on RP dump while DW - hey, it functions exactly like frost

killing one of the few points dw tanking had an argument for existing.

i approve blizz


and i approve having bikini plate as a perfectly acceptable public appearance in a teen-rated game

It says main hand because it would proc off both main and off hand otherwise. Sudden doom for unholy had that problem at start and made it machine gun deathcoils and ghoul transformations. Since frost is the intended dual wield spec, they converted it to main hand only, which lead to poor strike damage and no where near as many procs.

Kinda wish they do to us what they did to warriors to hammer it home. From vanilla to wrath, all specs of warriors could dual wield (actually got duel wield arms and prot wars before). When cata came they removed it baseline and gave it to fury as a spec bonus.


my problem is - if they intend to make DW frost only, they might as well leave that alone instead tacking on some 2H function and calling it 'fixed'

and yes - if they insist on making DW being the frost 'flavor', sure. why not just give them TG and gave out an actual 2H DPS spec that doesn't need to tack on extra pet handling?

if balacing DW/2H across the trees are 'that' hard to carry out - fine, make DW being Frost only

BUT give us an ACTUAL 2H DPS option. and no, your efforts on 2H Frost/Unholy still leave many bitter in their mouths

we just dont like the feel of either options, plain and simple

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