Title, I’ve never heard of this talent being played for the obvious reasons. Blizz should delete this, move feral frenzy to that row and create a new 50 talent or something.
Not sure I agree with moving Feral Frenzy, but yes Scent of Blood is a dead talent.
Going into Shadowlands I’ve seen multiple high end Feral players talk about it; Scent of Blood and Primal Wrath both fulfill the same niche of sustained AoE. The one that is tuned higher will always win out. It’s definitely possible for Scent to be tuned to beat out Primal Wrath, but then this situation would just be flipped.
1 Like
Primal wrath for anyone using apex always will win out this xpac, unless that talent stacked trash (was going to edit spelling but the ability is actually trash haha) I don’t see it being viable ever. Thrash does no damage haha and swipe is also really just a filler / decent on AoE.
its not useless. its just not as good as the other two. For ST or AOE
But like, if I could have had this back in WLK or CATA?.. Woah buddy!!!
(although i guess if i had PW back then too it would pale in comparison.)
Huh… maybe it is useless.
I got the Scent of blood anima power this week and it certainly made a noticeable difference. It paired nicely with PW. I was angry that I had to use thrash again, but my swipes were basically free, as is PW , So I wasnt the least bit every starved. it was nice. But yeah, I wouldn’t use it unless it got some major overhaul.
I dont think id ever want it to beat out PW, but if they simply added shred into the mix, and thrash also reduced its energy cost. I feel like they could fine tune it to be comparable to Brutal Slash in ST. It could fill a need on fights that dont have enough aoe to justify using PW, but still leave you feeling gimped using BS ( which, lets face it, is every fight other than patchwerk.)
IMO…
Swap Scent of Blood and Lunar Inspiration’s spots.
Then BUFF Lunar Inspiration to count feral Moonfire as a Bleed.
Scent kind of fits well on the top row, and would give an AOE alternative to the very Single Target Sabertooth. IDK if it would compete with predator there though…
Lunar inspiration (bleed) would allow for mastery buffed multidotting aoe on row 6, while also increasing single target damage.
This would allow for Scent and Primal to be taken together for a full AOE build. This would also allow Sabretooth and LI to be taken together for a full ST build. I think that would be interesting.
As it stands now I only play feral pretty casually, but I don’t think I’ve ever used Scent besides just trying it out once.
This would bring an old problem again: Builds that have no aoe power and builds that have low ST. If you wanted strong AoE you’d take scent of blood on level 15 row then primal wrath on 45 (and vice versa).
The new row with aoe choices was made specifically to avoid this problem that we had before (ST competing with aoe talents).
That talent row needs 3 options. Currently there are only 2 viable ones
Primal wrath - > large aoe situations
Brutal slash - > single target situations
Scent of blood - > needs to be a viable 2 - 3 target cleave option talent
It should increase rakes damage by 100% and apply rake to 2 extra targets. Or something to that effect.
Or…wait for it, replace Scent of Blood with the tree guys!!!
In fact, no one wants to use Scent of bood. This talent is completely rubbish.
Lunar Inspiration, I think I can become Feral’s skills instead of talents
At least practicality is higher than Scent of bood