I am glad the general tree gained some changes and it is a great step. That being said, I really wish crushing force was a 1 point talent node as well, but at least the capstones are all dps focused now.
I won’t comment on prot as there are already a lot of threads for that. This will mainly be focused on fury.
I don’t quite understand the nerf to thunderous words, or the nerf to arms bleeds.
I think arms still needs work in general but did want to hit on changes already made.
I am assuming tuning is still to come.
The change to titan’s torment is an interesting one. I feel like this could be hit or miss. I am not a fan of it, but understand why it was done. the new change just doesn’t feel impactful enough imo. With how crazy fury burst could be, it makes sense on the change though. (Maybe we won’t actually rip aggro right away now that tanks also had threat buffed woot!)
That being said, now that odyn’s fury is strictly a cd by itself, it really needs some compensation either in tuning, or along with buffing its capstones.
Speaking of capstones… Fury still suffers greatly from capstones being largely bad. There are too many other nodes in the fury tree you take and ignore capstones in general. This shouldn’t be. Capstones should be something you really want to take due to their power.
I think an easy solution is to really look at the fury tree as a whole. Make bloodthirst baseline, and move rampage to the first talent slot. The other talents really need to be looked at as well.
I like the change to reckless abandoned, but also dislike it. It feels cool to have recklessness be an actual cd now, and in combo with berserker’s torment, could be really fun(assuming zerker’s torment would also give you the buff) But it also takes away a lot from fury’s rotation in general. I really think fury will need to be compensated in some way for this change. Maybe making the capstones that follow combined into 1 could help with that. Not sure, but fury capstones really need work.
And of course there is execute. Execute is such a terrible button for fury currently. This button doesn’t feel good to press and is just forgettable. Not sure if anyone would agree here, but I think execute for fury should cost rage. Changed improved execute to instead make execute do X% more damage depending on enemy HP and enrages you. Maybe then it will actually be worth using, and it will make sudden death procs feel better rather than just a tool to amp your slayer bladestorm.
I know there is already a thread for tier sets, but I really don’t like the fury one. It is just another set and forget kind of set. I think it is better than S1, but S1 was also really poor.
In general, warrior still doesn’t give much utility for mythic plus. That would be fine if the damage was some of the best, which is rough since tuning can change on a dime.
Can warriors at least get a lust shout? It would only help slightly, but better than nothing.