Arms & Fury Warrior Review of Slayer Hero Talents - Execute Spin to Win!

Live Geposted 09.04.2024 um 10:25 von Archimtiros

12 new Hero Talent Trees

Hero Talents are an extension of the Talent system designed to explore class fantasy with a third talent tree, separate from your class and specialization. With the release of Alpha, Blizzard has previewed most Hero Talents Trees coming in the next expansion, The War Within.
The War Within Hero Talents Overview

Our Guide Writers have provided initial first impressions on the Hero Talent Trees revealed so far. Check out all of our released Hero Talent reviews in our new Editorial Section.

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Slayer Arms/Fury Warrior Review

A Slayer has one goal: the execution of their chosen target, and woe betide any who stand between the Slayer and their prey. Slayers are unrelenting in their pursuit and attacks, overwhelming their foes with a furious, unending onslaught of steel. When a Slayer has you in their sights, your days are numbered.

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The first is Execute, bolstered by increased Plötzlicher Tod procs, which helps the bonuses work at all health levels, rather than backloaded into the end of an encounter.

The second is more frequent Klingensturm, with a caveat that Fury will have access to it again in The War Within, though with no comment as to whether it will become an alternative choice or replace Ravager entirely.

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The brief Bladestorm from Frenetic Flurry will fit in the GCD from the ability that triggered it, the intent is that it should not impact your rotation. The ability to use Pummel and Storm Bolt while Bladestorming applies during all Bladestorms, not just the one triggered from Frenetic Flurry.

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A more important observation is how much cooldown reduction Unrelenting Onslaught may provide, as Aggressionsmanagement can already reduce the cooldown of Bladestorm and Ravager below one minute. Combining both could easily push this to a very high frequency, raising the question of whether Bladestorm is meant to be used as often as Demolish or we'll see more further adjustments changing or even removing Anger Management. Otherwise, it would be pretty ironic if Slayer ended up spending more of its rotation time channeling than Colossus does.

Interestingly, Slayer's Dominance specifies that Marked for Execution can stack three times, though there is no such stipulation on Slay, so it's not clear if the debuff scales up or not. It's also worth noting that both of these effects are debuffs on the target, unlikely to stack on multiple target simultaneously.

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The secondary effect of Sudden Death accelerating Bladestorm is a very cool idea, adding extra damage without requiring extra time, which is good for both Frenetic Flurry and ensuring regular Bladestorm casts don't fall out of short duration buffs like Enrage.

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Tin foil hat time: Mountain Thane and Colossus also have talents increasing the usefulness of stuns, though Slayer's bonus of allowing them to be used during Bladestorm is something Fury could already do with Ravager. One could speculate that reverting Fury to Bladestorm instead of Ravager is an intentional move to level out that playing field and keep the ability to stun/interrupt during AoE exclusive to Slayer.

The talent is very similar to Hurrikan, which begs the question of whether both talents will coexist. Hurricane is also responsible for Bladestorm not being cancelable in Dragonflight, as it stacks independently of Bladestorm's damaging ticks or duration. If it were changed to stack on hit like Overwhelming Blades or simply removed in lieu of it, that could create the possibility of allowing players to tactically cancel Bladestorm again.

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Recognizing there are other changes coming to both Arms and Fury, it is possible that there are further plans for these abilities we are simply not aware of yet. Blizzard previously commented on most Fury builds focusing on Bloodthirst or Raging Blow rather than both, so turning Bloodthirst a longer and stronger cooldown similar to the Dragonflight Season 2 playstyle could cause these talents to increase in value, as could reducing the frequency of Arms' Overpower resets.

Although aptly named, Tunnel Vision is the biggest offender here, because the reset on target change appears easily gameable by using mouseover macros to hit different enemies without changing targets, similar to Raserei in the Fury tree. This creates an unnecessary knowledge problem, as players who know and take advantage of the macros will be far less inconvenienced than those who don't, not to mention messing with the balance of the two talents when the downside can be so easily circumvented.

Neither of these bonuses are particularly must haves, but both present very nice quality of life improvements. Relentless Pursuit will probably be the more common pick, especially since Zeitspirale already allows more frequent use of Heroic Leap, but there are still plenty of situations where having leap or charge available just a few seconds earlier can be instrumental in dealing with a mechanic.

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Archimtiros is the Warrior class theorycrafter, SimulationCraft developer, and long time Mythic raider.
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