Slam is beautiful
Slam is great
And I’m sick of
The slam hate
- A poem by UncleSlam
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Slam is terrible
Slam is bad
Slam’s existance
Makes me mad
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A pvp’er slam on Slam…
There is not a single caster
Who would think it a disaster
If the Slam spell got a buff -
It just doesn’t hurt enough.
Is there anything that’s bleaker?
No one’s begging “make it weaker!”
No one’s asking for a nerf.
Streamers meme it when they smurf.
Do I hate Slam? That’s not true.
It just needs some more to do.
Damage always can get tuning,
What Slam needs is anti-pruning.
Give it some kind of effect
When we manage to connect.
Give it skill-based interaction
So it’s not just a distraction.
Give us one more Classic way
To be skillful when we play,
So that Slam feels fun, exciting!
Who can ask for more from fighting?
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Okay, we now know how you feel about OP.
But tell us how you feel about the ability slam.
Can’t go ham if you don’t have Slam!
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I never post on these forums but I had to because of all the classes the warrior forum was the last one I expected poetry on. I think that makes me classist and I’m sorry.
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It’s just amazing to me how many people would rather remove an ability than see it buffed to greatness. Imagine a frost dk asking for frost strike to be removed of all things.
Man of culture
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Slam isn’t comparable to frost strike though. We already have OP, MS, and rend which is enough between hamstring, procs, and execute. That’s why we want it removed, it’s a bad button that shouldn’t exist.
The issue is that arms is already GCD locked. If slam was worth pressing, we would just end up unbinding whatever it outperforms.
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Slam is a single target rage spender that acts as a filler. It does significantly more ST damage than thunderclap, but people would prefer to press that for some reason when slam would be the better option. Anyone who thinks arms has “button bloat” has probably never touched specs like outlaw, unholy dk, or brewmaster.
Give slam a small cooldown, make it cost 40 rage, double its damage, and it becomes a great button and the optimal single target choice. Ez pz.
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Even with all the buff, slam isn’t worth it.
Lets just say slam refreshed rend. Investing 2 talent points to add an ability to your action bar for a 0.5% damage increase is a trash idea. Then you consider that slam doesn’t refresh rend, and now its 2 talent points to not gain any damage increase. The raw damage of these abilities is only going to account for ~1% of your damage profile. Spending 2 talent points to occasionally replace that 1% damage with an ability that hits 50% harder while not refreshing rend is such an awful idea.
Then buff slam. Problem solved.
It’s already increased by 85% in pvp and still isn’t worth pressing there. Mortal Strike/Overpower dominate the majority of the rotation, and slam has absolutely no synergy at all with anything else in the kit. Simply buffing the damage isn’t going to make it worth pressing.
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It will when you’re using thunderclap and its pitiful damage. Slam is fine. Could use a rework or another small buff.
Like I already said, thunderclap makes up less than 1% of the damage profile of arms. The main benefit you get from pressing it is refreshing rend. Investing points into slam isn’t worth it for arms.
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Insane that you can’t imagine a world where slam can do the same job but make up 5-10%, which is a dps gain and a fun gain
Insane that you think that any level of slam damage will cause it to be fun or even synergize with any part of the tree
Thunderclap doesn’t. Rend also doesn’t.