So Heroic Strike Glyph was changed...again

#0 - March 12, 2009, 10:19 p.m.

It's now back to the same as it is on live, 10 rage on a crit.

In a way this is good, the 5% crit change was godawful, and it would have been a severe nerf to warrior threat if we didn't get rage back from heroic strike spamming in conjunction with the revenge glyph. So now instead of reduced threat from heroic strike not being usable every swing, we're staying the same in terms of heroic strike spamming full time in most fights.

However this makes me wonder if at least for now, Blizzard is giving up on the idea of doing something to change the need to spam it every swing. On the plus side, my doctor is giving me a lot of nice meds to cope with the carpal tunnel.

Ghostcrawler

#2 - March 13, 2009, 1:30 a.m.

We don't like it being spammed (from an RSI view point), but we think the changes needed to change the whole system are beyond the scope of a content patch (or at least this one). Suggestions from players have included anything from toggling the ability to changing rage mechanics to where HS goes back to only being used when you need to bleed off extra rage (and don't have extra rage constantly).

We changed the glyph back because we liked the way the old one played with Fury. It made some interesting decisions. The other version might have been a better tanking enchant, but we thought Prot had more interesting glyphs available than Fury at this point.