Fist of Fury = amazing. Whirling Dragon Punch = great, but it feels so weird tab targeting a handful of times before i use Spinning Crane Kick. I get it though, in like every martial arts film ever, it’s always 10 vs 1, and they surround the one guy who starts taking them out one by one, while simultaneously dodging and countering. sounds awesome, looks awesome. feels weird to execute. Am i the only one?
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At least it’s capped at 5 and you don’t have to do it forever. The only redeeming aspect of it. 
I honestly dislike this aspect, in legion we could get up to 10+ stacks and it was amazing. At the start of BFA, they hard capped all our AOE damage. FoF no longer does full damage to all targets, SPK is capped at 5 stacks. Meanwhile they just gave DH’s more AOE.
Also, If you pop SEF before going full aoe, you can rack up SPK stacks really quickly. Once you get used to it, its not all that bad since TP/RSK/BOK all apply the buff.
I don’t like that mechanic at all. You can pop SEF and get 3 stacks with 1 TP, but you can’t do this every pull.
I don’t like how it flows. TP gives you 2 chi, SCK costs 2 chi, but FoF costs 3 chi so at one point you’ll need to either TP twice in a row and lose hit combo, or TP - BoK - TP - FoF which means you just wasted 3 GCDs to use your AoE ability. And when I say “waste” I mean it, because you’re doing like 3 DPS on the trash pack using 2 TPs and a BoK.
You can get full stacks with two single target abilities after hitting SEF if there are 5+ targets around, its pretty easy. I personally miss legion having the ability to get 10-20 stacks under the right conditions.
I have rarely found myself REALLY wanting 5 stacks for aoe pulls (when SEF is not up) and feeling compelled to get those stacks. Between FoF, WDP, Iris, or Dance of Chi-ji procs, I would assume it would be diminishing returns on trying to force those stacks but it would depend on the pack size.
They’re not “wasted;” you just built up three stacks of the buff.
I personally love the style; it’s fun and unique.
Meanwhile in those 3 CDs the DH already used Immo aura into Eye Beam into Blade Dance.
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That’s great, but I’m not sure why you’re so focused on DPS over those particular five seconds.
Average DPS over the course of a dungeon run >> DPS over an arbitrary five seconds in a rotation.
Maybe that’s just me.
I do feel like i have to play catch up during trash pulls, but it’s not so much i’m saying “other classes have more dps aoe” I’m just saying it feels weird to execute my aoe. i would feel more on par with other classes if FoF applied the debuff, and then i spinning crane kick lol
It does feels weird and sometimes annoying to execute but I like it in general. Imagine if we didn’t have any ramp up mechanics!!! At least for me it would be boring to just go into the battle and spam spinning crane and cast WDP and FoF on CD.
But don’t get me wrong. It can be really annoying sometimes! Specially when tab targeting gives you a previous target that you already have the debuff on it. Or when it gives you a ranged target!!! The refocusing your SEF on the new tab target which cost you a GCD is also annoying.
In general, I like it but you are right, it feels annoying sometimes
I love the mechanic. It adds flavor and complexity.
I wouldn’t mind if we had a passive like sweeping strikes. where like free black out kicks also hits another target, applying 2 debuffs. that would be more fun than tab targetting 4 times lol
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