Spear was the go to capstone s1 for arms when they were crit machines with 140k ms into 150k fatal mark executes. But since they moved arms damsge to bleeds doesnt have the same impact.
In fact during s1 people were asking for nerfs to spear because it was an easy to land lockdown. People wanted it to work like abomb limb where it only pulls you in once.
And magically one day spear will make its comeback. Abilities in wow are like stocks. They go up and down based on general feelings.
Also the fact they didnt even change it to fit warrior thematically. Why would warriors have a glowing blue magic thing? They could have changed it to lamb to the slaughter where warrior throes down a post that chains everyone to it for the duration.
Same with the hunt and dhs (couldnt bother to at least make it fel green) blessing of seasons and hpal or primordial wave and shamans. The only SL spell that kinda fits is abomb limb.
It tethers players and itās not broken by damage 
toxic af.
Spear combined with an unpeelable bladestorming warrior: Guess Iāll just sit here and die now.
About as toxic as playing melee is into a frost mage 
Iāll just say that a warrior does more damage outside bladestorm, so if they bladestorm while youāre speared you can just sit there free casting regrowths with barkskin and moonkin armor and take a lot less damage then you think.
Season 1 unhinged bladestorm spear avatar sharpen you literally died tethered to the spear while the warrior is immune to cc. Reasonwhy unhinged was nerfed
Oh yea, I forgot youāre one of the Remi sympathizers who thinks boomkins take 0% physical damage and one shot with dots. Letās not derail this thread and do this here lol.
Iām talking from a Season 1 perspective when it was busted. I realize the game has changed. Donāt take my response so seriously and use it as an opportunity to tell people how to L2P (And Iām not necessarily talking from a boomieās perspective - I play other alts/specs too)
Who cares about season 1 and Iām not speaking hyperbole. You take 35% reduced phys. Remi goes off the rails with it.
A lot of people want to whine about bladestorm and never realize how little damage warrior does in it compared to just doing a rotation.
Unhinged got nerfed mid s2. They didnāt nerf unhinged because of s1 performance. They nerfed it because they buffed bladestorm by 70%.
If im not mistaken, after arms got ip back and were one tapping people blizzard nerfed them mid or late s1 Im pretty sure. Sharpen fatal mark and one more core talent were nerfed I think.
Either way, it matters because s1 arms was crit based and they could hit you witj huge mortalstrikes. Zero counterplay to spear burst with unhiged. Spear also increased crit damage so yea. Even bigger numbers
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Damage reduction, any of the abilities that broke spear. 
Also spear stopped getting picked when they took the mod off tr.
Blizzard nerfed modifiers repeatedly on arms abilities.
Nerfed in s2
Was nerfed by 70% in beta and continues to get its stack count neutered.
Martial prowess has been nerfed from 30% to 9% while they buff Ms base damage
The crit damage amp was nerfed in SL as well. Yeah I remember the zero counterplay to spear burst was so bad that arms warriors defined the meta and you had to have one on your team or you lost when they got their late season rework
Mate I remember s1 arms one two tapping nerds dont pretend now they were this weak spec. Even my arms with like a couple of weeks if exp could global someone with all the burst loaded up. Defensive stance was also stronger back then.
It was the perfect build back then with crit tier set and gear and spear. Still I wish they added something new instead of both spear and roar. Roar is just straight up boring.
Unhinged wasnāt nerfed until like 2 months ago.
No it wasnāt. What are you even talking about?
Buggy/inconsistent
Feast or famine
Incredibly frustrating/jarring to be on the receiving end of.
The ability sounds great on paper. Works very poorly in practice. Itās almost as toxic as SL grippy hands
No oneās pretending arms was weak. Every point youāve made Iāve refuted.
Yeah arms had crazy burst if you stacked modifiers on an Ms and crit in a spear.
Hmm. I thought it was pretty consistent, although people being able to blink out definitely seems like a bug. Instances of it not working are often due to people spearing players on knock dr.
Hold on wasnt dstance a bigger dr and a bigger damage penalty? Then it was reduced to 15/10 now. Im not crazy
It was 10% reduced taken and 20% less damage dealt