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I was hoping, but they clearly nerfed something. I ran a full follower dungeon with every bit of extra hits talented in and throwing spellslinger rapid cast every second, and it proc’d maybe 6 times across the entire dungeon run. The fun is over on this trinket it looks like :(.

I hope it comes back as a talent some time in the future.

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Spell slinger seems really bad to me.

I was running sunfury doing 800k-1m dps over all.

Up to 1.4m dps on bosses

I decided to try spell slinger and it was terrible. It feels like an aoe spec compared to sunfury, and i did pump some 2m dps pulls during trash. My single target tanked to like 700k and my overall was around 600k.

A considerable dps loss.

It felt like they tried to make spellslinger more of an aoe spec compared to sunfury but it fell flat for me overall.

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I haven’t tried Spellslinger at all because I just don’t like it but the theorycrafters are claiming Sunfury is close to 30% ahead of it, which is insane. There should never be that much of a difference between hero talent specs.

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106

That feels accurate to me.

I was having so much fun with sunfury i didnt even look at spellslinger until yesterday.

Compared the points and figured it was a strong aoe spec compared to sunfury which seemed more single.

Tried it and it was terrible and both comparitvely.

It also just feels less smooth. Sunfury has more tools to gain changes which makes it feel better to play

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107

Yeah same, I am having a blast with Sunfury, just like I expected I would. The only thing that bugs me is the delay in the meteorites from Glorious Incandescence falling. They need to speed up the animation or make it so that they drop on the target and not the spot where the target was when your ABarr hit it.

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I’m glad you guys are rocking it with Sunfury. I’ve been a “spellslinger” guy since they first announced the hero talents, so I’m planning to stick with it, but if we get into S1 and I’m 30% behind, I admit I will adjust. My guess is they bring them, at some point, into closer range with each other. But Spellslinger is definitely an AOE spec, which is what I LOVE!!! Huge packs getting toasted. It’s been super fun for me so far.

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109

i think for Mythics it will be just fine, im sticking with SS for now as well

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110

You should try sunfury.

Damage aside, sunfury feels a lot smoother to play. You press more buttons more quickly.

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I tried spellslinger and I had 2 issues that had me go back to SF in short order.

  1. The SS AoE might’ve been a little better, but SF wasn’t very far behind. However, on ST, SS was WAY behind. I hate boss fights that take 10 minutes in M+ cause nobody has ST damage. This puts SF hands down light years ahead.
  2. The rotation wasn’t nearly as fun, but this might be a moot thing after looking at the ptr nerfs.

The nerfs will also affect ST more than AoE so point number one might be moot now too.

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