When are you ready to admit you guys have absolutely no idea how to tune this class?
" * Developer’s note: Currently Reckless Abandon is outperforming Anger Management in all situations, so we’re bringing them closer in power by bringing up Raging Blow and Bloodthirst’s base damage, which will also improve Fury’s baseline single-target damage."
Where’s the single target buff?
Our peers get stronger and we continue to spin our wheels against your nothingburger changes. This has actually got to be an in-house meme amongst the balance team. My sub remains non-renewed.
* Raging Blow damage increased by 25%.
* *Developer's note: This change does not affect Reckless Abandon’s Crushing Blow.*
* Bloodthirst damage increased by 30%.
* *Developer's note: This change does not affect Reckless Abandon’s Bloodbath.*
For what its worth that’s the buff they are talking about
The fact they think these changes bring up some kind of “base line” single target shows they have no idea how the spec even functions. Unless they mean while leveling before you have enough talent points to pick reckless abandon, which still outperforms AM and is much simpler to play because it doesn’t naturally desync all of our cds and desync fury from the rest of the party. Routes are made with cds in mind, and typically that’s around 1.5 or 2m cds. No tank is changing route just to help a bottom tier spec do a little better by trying to play around anger management cd chaos.
I think we may end up dropping odyn’s fury altogether, move those 1/2 points into the passive reck talents below RA or 1/2 points into vicious contempt. Roar is likely still the pick since the nerfs don’t impact the bleed, only the initial hit, but odyn’s fury entire ability both hit and bleed was gutted past 5 targets. Maybe drop titan’s torment for the reck one or move the point into short roar. Spear is also a decent alternative, lines up with avatar, gives us a psuedo grip/control for packs, and also frees up the talent tree a little to take more defensive/utility options for higher keys because dropping some crit % is way less punishing than dropping points from armored to the teeth.
Or who knows, maybe anger management is the play again. Embrace the desync, just send cds when they come up no matter what, turn that brain off and zug. Bribe the tank into doing single pulls so you don’t need to worry about target caps and really just spit in the face of the gods.