Have it. But that’s a pet not the ACTUAL Sword. I can’t hold the battle pet in my hands and whack things with it.
Alright, lets bury your fence sitting.
Your OP says that the ability shouldnt have ever left the idea list.
You later say its design is bad for a defensive and that you hated how it works.
Yet you also call it a good ability multiple times which makes your complaints look empty and hollow.
Then you switched it from design to it not being an invisible copy of your character holding the weapon. Its almost like you had a worse idea for design through attack speed increase and parry increase, to saying keep that but change the visual… change it to what exactly?
Then you go back to walking about the actual design of the ability and not the visuals,
How is it painful to use? You just press whatever key you have it bound to.
The defensive is just a buff. The damage portion of it is the weapon copying your attacks.
Basically everyone else in this thread know what ability design means, and its not the looks, thats why people are saying that the devs shouldnt take their focus off of game design and bugs to fix the design of an ability that 1 person on the forums doesnt like.
Other people are seeing your complaints for what they are at this point. A troll. Others have pointed out long ago that the spell in both description and mechanics are perfectly reflected by the visuals of the spell.
Not to mention you just want them to impale on auto attacks, a fundamental redesign of the ability from doing a weaker version of your attacks, to just doing damage on autos which would be worse since the ability plays into your defensives by providing boneshield stacks as well which your design would be a worse version.
Im not even halfway through the thread at this point in my response and its pretty clear that you dont know what the hell you even want yet you took to the forums. So you either are trolling because TWW is so boring you have nothing else to do, or you are just complaining to complain and you havent put any real thought into what you actually want and you havent thought of any consequences to the spec in implementing your worse design ideas for the ability.
There is plenty of criticism to be levied towards Blizzard, but this isnt one of them. The visuals match the ability.
There is the early access easier leveling that they turned off when the game released officially, the lazy design of that Chromie scenario, the wonky scaling where lower levels can absolutely blow level 80’s out of the water in timewalking areas of the game and the gear not being worth anything.
Other people have been trying to understand what you dont like about DRW. You havent been clear at all with your “criticism”.
What I am getting, is you want to get rid of DRW and would rather have an offensive ability that doesnt help at all with things like Bone Shield stacks since you just want to tie it directly to auto attacks but also trying to claim that nothing would be changed how it functions ability wise. Even though your suggestion changes how it functions.
You clearly do not know how the ability works. For someone claiming they have been using it since wrath, you should know it copies your abilities. If you use Heart Strike it uses heart strike, if you use marrowrend you use marrowrend and gain bone shield stacks from that. Its not just an auto attack replicating ability that gives parry as you suggest.
So here is some criticism, learn how the ability works first before you go around trying to say people need provide something constructive. You havent provided anything constructive but showing you have a lack of knowledge about the ability you dislike. You would rather ruin the ability for everyone else, nerf the spec, because you think it does something it doesnt and that the visuals should match the thing that it doesnt do. This is why everyone has no damn clue what you want, what your complaints actually are, and why you think it doesnt fit its description.
No i never knew it copied attacks outside of autos, i figured when the ability said melee attacks it specifically meant autos, likely due to the lazy visuals of the ability not making it entirely clear what it benefited from, which is literally the entire point of this post…literally all your word salad did was prove my point further, that the ability NEEDS to be updated visually for clarity, and yes my opinion on the ability changed, as people explained it and the more i thought on it, i realized the only reason i hate it is the way it functions visually rn
Not that I especially agree with you, but Kelliste is basically the resident troll of the DK forums. Better off just not engaging.
Fair enough, don’t have to agree to be a decent person, thanks for the heads up
Wait, someone changing their minds on the forums?!
IMPOSSIBLE!
Yeah people already completely decimated you on this, but I’m just going to rub salt in the wound: Get over it, it’s literally the best ability Blood has.
So you didnt pay attention?
Blizzard will state auto attacks specifically if its just auto attacks. But its not even just melee attacks, it replicates some spells as well.
Dont blame visuals (which the visuals do show these other abilities being used like Blood Boil for example) because never cared to understand the ability.
You didnt read my post then.
Its already clear.
What was troll about my post? Absolutely nothing. I was pointing out the lack of knowledge this person has about a singular ability that spans over a decade at this point and trying to say the ability doesnt do things that it does.
It does Blood Boil
It does Heart Strike
It does Marrowrend
It does Death’s Caress
It does Death Strike
It does Consumption
It does Soul Reaper
I mean come on there is no excuse at this point at the complete and utter dropping of the ball that many many people have on these forums. It happens over and over again.
No one has decimated me? in fact everyone who has tried to say why I’m wrong actually further proved my point, plus I’m not even asking for the abilities function to even change, just change the visuals so it’s clear how it actually functions, literally it could do the exact same thing it does now, just rather than summoning a lame pet its a buff style visual, so i will ask, please don’t post and derail the topic unless you have something constructive to add to the topic at hand
The visuals already matches its function. Your point hasnt been further proven, your point has changed and you claim it has further proven your point.
Again DRW already does
Blood Boil
Death’s Caress
Heart Strike
Marrowrend
Death Strike
Consumption
and Soul Reaper.
Is does all of those animations already, so how exactly could it further visually show what it does. How are you going to show Death Strike without using its animation? The only other thing you could do is change the visuals of Heart Strike, Marrowrend, Death Strike and Soul Reaper.