Expected Behavior:
The server starts counting down the following melee attack right after a heroic strike. There should be only the weapon speed as the gap between these two damages (the former heroic strike and the following melee attack).
Actual Behavior:
After a heroic strike, server does not start counting down for the next melee attack immediately. Instead, the server waits for a certain amount of time which is about 1 second and then starts counting down. If you use the weapon swing timer you will be able to notice this behavior more easily.
I guess I didn’t notice this, but I did not play with any addons.
What Heroic Strike is supposed to do is replace your next white swing (auto attack) with a special attack (rage cost) with a little added damage. That’s all it does.
The OP knows how Heroic Strike works. What they’re saying is the auto-attack after a Heroic Strike has some sort of delay before the countdown. So if he’s correct, say, instead (2.00 speed weapon) Heroic Strike > 2.00 seconds > Auto Attack it would be Heroic Strike > 1.00 seconds > 2.00 seconds > Auto Attack. This is really worrying if true, but OP are you sure it’s not just a problem with your swing timer addon? If you had a full rage bar for instance, and you queued a bunch of Heroic Strikes, was it significantly slower than if you just auto attacked?
I experienced nothing like this behavior at all while leveling multiple Warriors. I could be that I didn’t use it often enough to see it, but it worked as expected for me every time.
Definitely bug report stuff if it sometimes works the way you describe for someone. Addons could be buggy too, which is a good point.