Because this isn’t TBC, or Wrath.
Your personal head canon of nostalgia based skill-sets is not what the game is developed around… If you want to use Mind Flay - nobody is stopping you. You’re stopping you because it’s inferior QOL and damage.
SoD is Retail for people who can’t handle the complexity of Retail, might as well get used to it
If you used the starting dagger on a rogue while a priest only healed you that was zero downtime also, but that isn’t faster than using on-level items. I get fired up because its a 20 year old false myth that shows people dont pay attention to basic math. (not directed at you)
A lot of runes replace abilities and talents that would have been chosen. It is the + server.
Maybe it’s my cope for being bad, but I also find mind flay > mind spike in situations where you have people dancing around you or exploiting your line of sight, as unless they interrupt you that damage is going through.
But generally I’d like to see it get some sort of buff to make it less ambiguous. Maybe if we get a rune that allows damage over time effects to crit, it’ll be objectively better in some situations.
Which reminds me, i didn’t realize until a few weeks into phase 2 that mind sear crits. I’m not sure if it did in its earliest form or not, but I feel like it didn’t. It’s kind of a drag that mind flay doesn’t in vanilla, hope it changes.
taking mind flay isnt end of world. U just drop a point from shorter MBlast. But the situations on using it are so incredibly low that i just don’t see a point. Range alone makes it whatever. It has its uses in niche situations but especially since im troll race i just really don’t even press it. Shadow guard especially being troll makes me even less likely to press it.
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