We’ll just have to wait and see once we’re in the fights, I doubt it’ll be any better considering the gameplay differences. Your ret sim is just above my SP’s but I can guarantee you his application of that damage is going to be way better just because of how it’s applied. I can’t wait to decide if I have enough time to cast my f’ing cooldowns vs moving from mechanics.
Must be nice having CD’s insantly.
That’s the thing. Take Bloodbound Horror (second boss). The entire fight is a big run around the circle and then a run out of the circle, then a teleport down beneath to fight 6 mobs that all die in 20sec.
Can you imagine a worse fight profile for Spriest than that? Ret can do 100% of their damage while moving, then go into the shadow realm, pop Wake of Ashes and Divine Storm, do 2mil AoE DPS and then come back out.
Ovinax, too.
That Ret is going to literally double your damage in that fight.
Yep, the teleport to adds is going to be hilarious fo us, if you’re grouped with one of the insta mongo melee it’ll all be dead as your shadow crash lands and applies to half the pack.
That almost all of them. Odyn’s Fury into Bladestorm is like 4mil AoE DPS. Breath of Sindragosa? Xuen into Fist of Fury, Whirling Dragon Punch? Wake of Ashes Divine Storm? Havoc Demon hunter nonsense?
We’re really, really bad for the single target bosses. We’re simming nearly the lowest in the game. At i639, we’re LITERALLY the lowest in the game. But it’s not like AoE saves us lol. AoE is just as bad!
But it’s not like AoE saves us lol. AoE is just as bad!
My buddy who uses fan of knives and tempest on his assa beats me in aoe above 8 mobs, not even playing into caustic splatter, 0(literally doesnt even press the button) uptime on slice and dice, doesn’t even tunnel caustic splatter target, fan of knives, tempest.
I wish I could enjoy those classes, I leveled a DK to 80 to try frost, it’s literally 6 or 7 buttons in total, including pillar and rune weapon.
People are sleeping on Assassination.
But yeah, we need help. It feels like outside of Insanity, everything we press does too little damage. Shadow Crash needs a shorter CD or a second charge and it needs to hit 10 mobs. Psychic link needs to be buffed from 35% to 50%. Dark Ascension and Void Eruption need to be instant cast.
The spec needs about 4 changes to be competitive. But after like a dozen “tuning patches” we’ve gotten $%#@ all.
It’s going to be the same as DF. 5% here, 5% there. We’ll start playing optimally around a year from now. Once the new expansion hype dies down and people start unsubbing is when they’ll start buffing
Well, those add could also use the blob mechanic…when they die they spawn 3 new low hp adds… 