Unless you plan to hamfist more and more absorb shields on mobs this talent feels far far far far far too niche for pve content. First they have to be near death and then you gotta hope it does enough damage to pop the shield then do the health damage otherwise why bother? Just melt them down with something better.
If you want this talent to exist atleast give a pve optional talent that does something useless?
Well they did give it an entire m+ affix, it’s also extremely good on queen ansurek and now that voidweaver is more generally competitive I’d expect it to be the go to spec for the fight on mythic. I also expect it to be extremely strong on that fight now.
The SWDs themselves behave as if the target is in execute, and the damage dealt by them is transferred by psychic link.
Deathspeaker will enable you to use SW:D more often as well.
So it’s not as limited when you take everything into consideration.
It is a useless skillpoint if you are in a PvE situation without shields.
What really needs to happen is a choice node. Let me slot it in for dungeons/raid fights/affix weeks, where I get use out of it.
Let me take something else if thats not the case.
instead we get move during VoidT or slow. Like if that even was a choice in any game mode.
Edit: since we have the data, in PvE at least Dark Energy has 100% pick rate!
Yea giving a channeled slow is just another Mind Flay but can now be interrupted and put on cooldown. Interrupted by any micro CC on top of normal interruption.
So it really was an absolute miss as you are really shooting yourself in the foot if you don’t pick the mobility option vs slow.
Tbf while it is useless outside of those scenarios it’s not part of the hero talent’s tuning budget, it’s just gravy when we’re in a scenario it works. Changing it would actually be making us worse.
I have exclusively used the slow option since the start of the xpac. It is not a channeled slow. The orb spawns even if you break the channel immediately. It has some added utility in PvP that I wouldn’t trade for the ability to channel VT while moving.
They already are, plenty more absorb shields this expansion than there’s been in ages tbh, also it makes the affix really funny when you dot it, then slam SWD and reverberate ~3 Million damage SWDs into everything else in a pull via psychic link, makes it a pretty damn good niche on those weeks
Fair enough I suppose.
I just know that during Dragonflight I can’t tell you how many times I used Void Torrent only to instantly get stunned or knocked back or pulled in or need to move or w/e and I’m just left disappointed lol.
But if it works for you then I guess having a choice node in this respect works out after all.