Returning to retail for the first time since wod. Not sure I enjoy how devastate is currently being implemented. Why not have it be a chiloice between revenge and devastate? Have devastate cost rage and devastator can maintain its functionality but maybe if you have devastate it makes your next use of that free instead of resetting shield slam’s cd. The next step would be to add some synergistic nodes for the new devastate throughout the prot tree. This would also free you up to go different directions in the base warrior tree. Thoughts?
There’s too many more important things to click for global cooldowns which makes devastate totally crap. Unless it was giving you damage reduction per swing and stacks up to 3 times or some such it’s not going back on my hotbar. Spamming devestate wasnt really fun in previous xpacs…but we did it because…there wasnt much else to click until things were off cooldown.
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Okay, that makes sense. Like I said I havent played for a while now but I remember when devastate was first introduced and how usefull it was but Maybe they should remove the active skill altogether and keep just the passive talent.
I know what your talking about, and at one point devastate was kinda good as I remeber how it was back in those earlier expansion. Just put thunderclap where you would normaly have devastate on your hotbar, thats your new spammer. Make sure to have the talent that applies rend every thunderclap. So charge in thunderclap, click all the things, thunderclap, click all the other things, thunderclap. It’s better playstyle than spamming devastate.
You probably played when thunderclap applied deep wounds or the bleed w/e it was. Then they removed it, now its back.
The only time devastate was good was when it was sunder armor
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Ahh that’s what it was, yeh that’s when it was good 
Yea, I like what they did with thunderclap, I’ve always enjoyed that ability even in vanilla and especially once they started buffing in tbc. And I guess there have alaays been skills that just stayed in your skill book and not on your bar. It just feels bad that an ability with an epic name like “devastate” doesn’t get more use.
Revenge is AoE and devastate is single target filler. There’s so few open GCDs to use devastate too. Devastator, on the other hand, relieves this issue and gives you much more mileage.
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