While this might be true, Mountain Thane is looking to be so underwhelming Fury Warriors are going to go Slayer anyway purely because Slayer is just better overall, on top of making Bladestorm even more nuts.
I really like Mountain Thane taking an ability that’s almost never used and building around it, but when you compare the two trees… its almost sad.
This is not as true as you think it is. While Thane ST does look to be a bit behind at the moment, the sustained multitarget is actually slightly higher. Slayer is going to make a strong showing in raid where it can capitalize on frequently spawning adds, but it is very early to be writing Thane (a sub-spec which many haven’t even bothered to test) off just yet.
Ultimately one thing is always going to be better than the other though, that’s just how comparisons work, but that’s a matter of tuning more so than design. There are still a lot of tuning issues at the moment (such as Fury execute being practically worthless), which could certainly shake up which comes out in front, but I sincerely doubt the gap will be so big that people cannot or should not feel comfortable simply playing the one they enjoy more.
I’m not going Thane because it’s mechanically superior, I’m going Thane because THUNDER AND LIGHTNING!
Why aren’t the Slayer points that are linked to Bladestorm extended to also enhance Ravager?
It annoys me that the spec focused on execute and badestorm forces you to pick and choose between execute and bladestorm buffing talents because they are all spread out at the end of the damn talent tree (arms).
Slayer needs to give bladestorm for free or something. This is silly.
Also please rename it to blademaster. yeah, I know it doesn’t perfectly match with the WC3 blademaster, but wow blademasters are more akin to warriors anyways and the name blademaster is 9999999999999999999x cooler than slayer.
And granting a charge if you choose that talent in the tree. If the entire tree is centered around 1 talented skill, you darn well give it to me and not make me center my build path around it.
Bump.
So just to clarify, I have to take bladestorm instead of ravager in order for the slayer hero talent tree to benefit me at all? I don’t understand this, and it is pretty frustrating/confusing.
Exactly the point of my post. Tying hero talents to a specific talent that you have to have doesn’t grant the freedom that they tell us we have in our talent choices. It should either grant it upon acquisition of the first hero talent or be one of those talents that replace either ravager or bladestorm.
I kinda disagree with the limitation as well, but Fury’s version of Bladestorm is far more potent than Arms’s, so it’s a minor inconvenience at best.
This applies to all HT’s that require a specific ability to work not just Warriors.
Yea, that seems like a really odd (poor) design decision. Not well thought out.