hey. I use the “brutal slash” talent when i play feral. it replaces swipe, which is fair, but the thing is: swipe is a cat form AND bear form ability. Brutal slash only works in cat form.
Now, when i am forced into bear form by circumstance, I only have mangle and thrash to press, both of which have (relatively) long CDs. It would feel better if I could still use Swipe in bear form.
Thanks for reading <3
It’s a simple fix really, but the issue is they both share the same spell ID, so taking BrS takes it away for one, it coincidentally goes away on the other.
The real question here though is why aren’t you taking Primal Wrath? It’s our only uncapped AOE skill. Brutal slash is nice, but it’s mainly used for single target to build combo points because of it’s relatively cheap energy cost.
You know there are places where it’s better, like pretty much all pvp and pretty much all raid bosses.
brutal slash costs less energy and shred even though it does the same damage single target so it’s useful in pvp
Agreed. Make it happen Blizz!
The SpellID of Swipe (Bear Form) is 213771, Swipe (Cat Form) is 106785, and there is a Swipe with SpellID 213764 in Caster, Moonkin or Travel Form, which is useless.
The SpellID of Brutal Slash is 202028.
These can be retrived by
/dump GetSpellInfo(“Swipe”)
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The spellID changes with forms, not specialization, so Balance or Restoration with Feral Affinity also have 3 Swipes.
The 3 different “Swipe” share the same name, but when Brutal Slash is choosed in Talents, all 4 different spells are link to SpellID 202028.
When I try to auto-translate Macros with an Addon, it can’t distinguish Swipe (Brutal Slash) and Swipe (Bear Form), and save both to Brutal Slash. 