i just LOVE this ability as outlaw. I also am new to outlaw and this is my favorite spec in the entire expansion. was maining ret paladin prior to this. yeah just hate to see it go it was such a good ability for me…
As someone that switched from mut to combat at the end of wod, giving shadowdance to mut and outlaw was a mistake, and honestly the gameplay loop was near degen.
Give it a shot without shadow dance, you might still like it.
Shadowdan w/ Outlaw was awful
Shadow Dance doesn’t fit the Outlaw theme.
To be honest with you I don’t even like Vanish/BtE in our rotation.
Outlaw should be a Hack n’ Slash Class. Screw this gun nonsense.
The problem with it leaving is the spec was balanced around and got no buffs to compensate actually got nerfed instead.
This is something they gave Outlaw and Assassination something for in an additional charge of vanish, but it’s a significant reduction to overall stealth window uptime. Some people are good with this, because it allows you to hold a charge for utility/defense. I personally enjoyed long Crackshot windows, and it’s not going to feel the same without shadow dance.
I mean for outlaw holding the second charge would be a massive loss cause it doesn’t benefit from the cooldown reduction till both charges are on cooldown.
I like to imagine what if BtE synergized with Cold Blood. And that was the only key.
No Crackshot, no random combo points, just massive crit damage. And a guarantee.
You get two vanishes use them like a shadowdance. They repackaged the class.
Except two vanishes isn’t as good. Shadowdance was an independent cooldown. Both vanishes do not reduce at the same time.
This, its fine if they add the damage back in other ways but that isn’t what happened.
Hero talents are a disaster as well.