The new layout for ret tree in PVE is worse

Just eyeballing the napkin math I think it’ll be giving up Final Verdict, yeah. That’s the critique I was making, the presence of stackable CDs like that rather tends to warp gameplay around it. They even commented on that reasoning in the dark soul removal for warlocks just today, actually. The ability to combine CDs is so overwhelmingly powerful it almost always becomes the best option. Especially since burst damage no longer seems to have a real tradeoff in sustained, or at least has not in quite some time.