Q&A on Heroic Strike

#0 - July 22, 2009, 5:28 a.m.

Community Team: Some players feel that, while tanking, having to continually hit Heroic Strike to match your weapon’s swing can become somewhat tedious.

Q: Do we currently have any plans to change Heroic Strike to make it no longer necessary to hit that button on every weapon swing?

A: Yes, we really don’t like way Heroic Strike works. On-next-swing attacks just don’t feel right and for tanks especially you can convert every white attack into a Heroic Strike. Unfortunately, they do the job, which is why we haven’t changed it yet. It’s job is to let warriors bleed off excess rage by converting it to damage and / or threat. It’s possible to fix this in other ways, such as perhaps the hit consuming more rage the more you have Execute-style.

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Can I safely assume the same is true of Maul?

Ghostcrawler

#1 - July 22, 2009, 6:34 a.m.

Yes, and even Rune Strike to some extent.

On next swing attacks to the job, but not in a particularly fun or elegant way. I'd love to promise to scrap them all, but we need to come up with an alternative that we really like first.

Heroic Strike and Maul might be fine in an environment where you used up most of your rage on your normal rotation and only needed to bleed off that excess rage in unusual circumstances, after a Hateful Strike for example. Given that we haven't been able to get there consistently so far, I'm not sure it's a good idea to pin our hopes on that solution however.