DF talents have made it easier to try this kind of build, it was very restrictive before; however, I found the new talents more forgiving and easier to pull off. Since its an alt I’m not concerned about viability or taking it into dungeons and making other people suffer my craziness, but has anyone else tried this out? I’m up to level 67 and it’s been going pretty well for the most part. I’ll still have dual-wield on the swap, when I need if it gets too dicey or can’t progress, but I haven’t needed to do so yet.
There are a few core abilities I’m not able to use like Raging Blow, Rampage, or Onslaught as they require the off-hand weapon to be used. I still have to take Raging Blow for obvious reasons, Rampage if I want Recklessness; otherwise I have 1 free point if I get everything else not related. I’m left with using Slam, Thunderclap, and Whirlwind as my exclusive spam abilities so I can’t take Storm of Swords or Annihilator unless I want to be doing nothing but auto-attacking the majority of the time.
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May be fun, but i suspect Prot warrior does as much or more damage with better defensives.
I feel like I destroyed this exact idea months ago.
I checked, turns out it was 2h no shield protection that I dumped on. It’s not as bad as that idea, since you can still press buttons, but it’s still the second worst idea I’ve ever heard of, and you’re making it worse than it needs to be.
Why would you skip annihilator? so you can fill globals with a weak slam? Since you’re taking thunderclap, then every global with storm of swords is covered, via bloodthirst → slam/whirlwind/thunderclap/execute → bloodthirst → repeat. You can’t press raging blow, you may as well convert it into usable damage. And then onto recklessness, you have to take 2 rampage talents that do nothing to get into it, and then for what? The rage gain is useless since you can’t spend it fast enough, so all you gain for 3 talent points is 20% crit chance for 12 seconds every 90 seconds. We definitely skip the entire middle and put the points into ravager/hurricane instead.
Your terrible idea is now slightly less terrible, but you’re still better off just playing protection and doing more dps. but you do you.