Midnight - Alpha trees Retribution

[Benmarch-zuljin]

@Aranoth-exodar

That I “misunderstood” their objective is just your wrong opinion.

@Aranoth-exodar

How can forcing you to add an extra button be antithetical to their objective when their objective is to remove buttons?? It’s the complete opposite.

Here is the objectives verbatim from their PTR post.
Note that it does not say what you say it does.

Emphasis mine

@Linxy

COMBAT APPROACHABILITY IN MIDNIGHT

With Midnight, we aim to make gameplay clearer and easier to understand, so the path to improvement is more apparent for players at every skill level, while maintaining the depth of mastery that WoW offers.

We are updating every class specialization with an eye towards approachability by reducing complexity and making gameplay more intuitive. We are beginning by focusing on what makes each specialization unique and designing gameplay that matches their theme, so your character’s personality and style are reflected in how you play. Our goal is for the most appealing, visible elements of your spec to be what matter most in gameplay. That often means managing resources, tracking a few key buffs and debuffs, using ability charges strategically, and responding to important triggered effects (also known as “procs”).

We want to ensure that players have all the necessary information to play a spec with clearly visible prompts and indicators in the user interface. This can include changing the design of complex abilities or reducing the number of buffs or debuffs that can be active, so it’s easier to pick out the most essential information on enemy nameplates or in the Cooldown Manager.

@Aranoth-exodar

People against leaving the choice node are straight up idiots, there is no reason to be against a CHOICE.

The choice is beside the point because it’s about what it does VS their goals.

Ignoring the glaring incompatibility.

CSAA is functionally oppressive, TS hits almost as hard as FV and it’s still a DPS loss to pick on live.
Any stronger and it would break spell priorisation whilst CSAA could hardly be any weaker.

They could make it so CSAA give a HP every 3 AA but it just makes it an even more egregious exception to the model they are going for…

Blizzard has been inconsistent before so I guess anything could happen but as far as this goes, as of now, they are consistent.