Monday, July 19, 2010

Oh happy day! When Blizz announced the Raging Blow.

So, some happy news recently came out of the question and answer session:

Q: Are Fury Warriors still going to see a new attack to fill the loss of Whirlwind? Any insight?
A. Yes! It’s called Raging Blow (at least for the moment), because we wanted to distance is a little from the old Enraged Assault. It's Fury-only and can only be used when Enraged, but does not consume the Enrage. It does indeed strike with both weapons (including the animation).


and just to remind you about some of the proposed features of this ability (beyond the ability to strike with both weapons, yay!) it will only be usable when you enrage, it will not use up the enrage, and I believe it's supposed to have a very short, if any, cooldown so that it can be used as often as you like.  That being said, I'd expect some serious changes around how Slam works since otherwise, if this is as good as they make it seem, it could replace any Slam interest at all.

In the end, we should see something like this for a desirability ranking:

Instant Slam, Procced Victory Rush > "Raging Blow" > Bloodthirst > Heroic Strike.

This is because we should want to hit BT when we can, unless something else has procced (which should be more desireable within that time frame) and Heroic Strike should be what we use to bleed rage if we can't hit anything else.

On multi targets, of course, we'd probably still target the main target and replace this with

WW > Cleave > Instant Slam, Procced Victory Rush > Bloodthirst

or something like that.

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