Slayer Fury: Let's Talk Execute

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It’s no secret that execute feels rather underwhelming to Fury Warriors. Even speccing into the Slayer Hero tree you don’t care about Sudden Death, you don’t care about Execute. All you care about is occasionally using Execute to consume Marked for Execution.

Two main points I’d like to address:

  1. Frustrations of Marked for Execution
  2. Make Sudden Death more compelling and exciting

Marked for Execution

These are frustrating for a couple of reasons.

  1. In target swapping environments like M+ they often get applied to multiple targets, and while cleaving executes will consume the marks they do not grant you any of the damage or bladestorm cooldown bonuses associated with them.
  2. They are streaky as hell making it very easy to munch procs beyond a 3 stack and frustrating to consume among your normal priority when they go crazy and then go silent for the next 20 seconds.
  3. There were all kinds of issues with how these marks applied and were consumed through beta, and while many were improved we’re still dealing with issues now in the live game.

In light of that I would like to propose Show No Mercy and Unrelenting Onslaught be completely decoupled from Marked for Execution. Leave the Slayer’s Dominance as a simple single target damage bonus. Which leads me to my second part.

Sudden Death

Instead tie Show No Mercy and Unrelenting Onslaught to Sudden Death procs.

  1. It removes a lot of jank associated with how marks are applied and consumed
  2. It puts the focus on Sudden Death and making sure that those Execute always feel powerful
  3. It would make Sudden Death be a talent you actually want to take beyond pure single target - which kind of feels like it should be part of the point of the Execute focused hero tree
  4. It separates some balancing between AoE and Single Target for execute bonuses

Obviously Sudden Death procs more than consuming three marks. So I understand the effects might have to be reduced slightly to compensate for the increased frequency. But honestly with how weak execute is I’m not even sure they need to be nerfed at all lol.

I am also ok with not every execute being powerful as Slayer Fury, but I definitely think every single Sudden Death proc should be.

Honorable Mention: Let Execute stack Slaughtering Strikes.

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Right now Execute is barely worth hitting. Even if you have three stacks. We’d rather send a big juicy Blood bath or stack some Raging Blows before wasting a global on execute.
So I like your idea to make it more worthwhile.

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