Talents Preview Discussion [w/ Calaculator Link]

still no hpal, wtf blizzard.

 

What would be an absolute skill or talent for hpals that'd shake things up at 20? What are your hpal dreams and aspirations?

 

we will be getting blessing of freedom and steed, that's enough mobility.

i am hoping for more damage dealing abilities.

everyone can healbot, but not everyone is good enough to heal AND dps AND play objectively at the same time.

 

Didn't you play and advocate that a build that specifically could not healbot was META for like a quarter of this xpac?

 

I wish they implemented the old glyph of harsh words as a talent for hpal. Holy word would be ranged damaging holy power spender. That's the way to bring shockadin back

 

Castable denounce coming back that did damage and had the "cannot crit" debuff would help with hpally's lack of non-cooldown damage abilities compared to other healing classes.

 

time for sword and board Fury

 

Sub out Storm Bolt for Intimidating Roat, Piercing Howl, Berserker Rage, or Intervene.

Basically, be super disrupting (12 sec cooldown interrupt, Rallying Cry, Spell Reflect) with a good amount of self-healing.

You are unfortunately forced into raging blow, and your executes will likely be weaker than an Arms or even Prot warriors, but will still Rage. If only Ignore Pain was still class-wide...

 

Have you tried or could you test how's the fury damage with rampage gone and all the raging blow buffs? Do you happen to overgenerate the rage?

 

Maybe poor Arms will start to get some attention now that the oppressive Fury spec is on its way out.

 

I'd settle for Stockade Pauldrons at this point.

 

MORE Hunter changes coming? Wowie!

Baseline Class Changes:

• Tenacity Pets no longer have Survival of the Fittest.
• Tenacity Pets have a new ability, Fortitude of the Bear. This grants you and your pet +20% maximum HP for a duration.

Class Tree:

• Thick Hides removed.

Survival:

• Kill Command (the Survival variant) now has an innate +10% chance to reset its cooldown. Predator’s value has been lowered from 25% to 15%.

POTENTIAL CHANGES
Class Tree:

• Survival of the Fittest is now in the class tree. (doesn't specify where)
• There is a choice node to modify Survival of the Fittest to have a shorter cooldown, or have higher damage reduction value. (also doesn't specify where)

Marksmanship:

• A bunch of nodes in the bottom left area have been shuffled around the tree. (it TECHNICALLY doesn't specify where, but I doubt it'd be to the top)

 

where are shadow priest changes. Or Fire Mage. Or literally anything other than huntard.

 

yay can't wait for my entire rotation to be just mind flay because I need to take useless points to get to silence skipping over any and all throughput in a way literally no other class has to.