I just read Rend is going bybye in MoP. I don't understand the reasoning behind this happening. I love my Rend
Why is Blizzard doing this?
I just read Rend is going bybye in MoP. I don't understand the reasoning behind this happening. I love my Rend
Why is Blizzard doing this?
I think it is being removed=/
They are trying to make rotations easier I guess.
Rend is being replaced. Essentially, a lot more abilities will cause Deep Wounds, including Thunderclap. You won't have to spend a GCD applying it, which will make rotations easier.
At least, that's my understanding.
In my opinion, it's a good thing. You spend a GCD applying it and then it gets refreshed automatically every time you MS (its different for prot I suppose). It's basically an apply and forget type thing and just a P.I.A when you have to switch targets. And zakuul is right...Deep Wounds will get applied through more abilities and Overpower will proc from Deep Wounds instead.
im gonna miss rend to be 100% honest. just the name in general. id rather get rid of deep wounds and keep rend and have it the same exact way. and wont this be a dps loss since we lose out on a bleed unless they make it super strong and it just does the damage of 2 bleeds in one.
Actually now that I've thought about it a little bit, this probably is a good thing. While it has become second nature to me I guess it is a pain in the ass to have to apply Rend and then Tclap to spread it around. Overzealous dps sometimes pull before the TClap goes off and then you get a messy pull.
I guess I'm a little attached to Rend because I've been using it for 7 years. Lol its strange seeing it go.
Last edited by Beruwan; 2012-02-20 at 09:29 PM.
I will miss rend. Ever since I rolled a warrior, regardless of playing it like a main character, I remember 2 abilities that define the class. Rend and heroic strike. Rend always felt so warrioresque to me, and was one of my favorite abilities, even though it literally was a simple dot with no actual mechanics. I for one will be sad to see it go. RIP Rend.
I'd Rather have Rend back and not being applied by MS, making the rotation needing more effort like on cata's launch. Oh well, can't have it all
They remove Rend so that you can mouse turn and don't have to click it. ;P
Funny thinking about it, rend has been useless for most of the game, and only recently did blizz make it useful, and now they're removing it
I like the functionality, but conceptually it is much like deep wounds. In order to keep up rend, but not waste GCDs with overlap, one has to use an add-on. Having it reapplied with MS helped, but it meant that dps became too bursty and mistakes very costly in dps output.
I'm probably going to be unhappy without having a long duration DoT effect that rogues can't just cloak off, but I think it's probably better in the long run.
But it's exactly the same as rend in duration with the new talents. I'm not aware of of the damage difference, but it seems to just be rend that is now auto applied which to me seems much better.
I'm not looking at it like rend has been removed. The way I see it, it's just got a different application method and does exactly the same and simply has been renamed with and old bleed's name. IMO the current Deep Wounds, is the bleed that is being removed.
It just saves us a GCD and has made getting quick aggro as prot much easier, as Blood and Thunder now applies the bleed rather than spreading it. Also it will help out pvp arms warriors a lot as they won't have to start by rending the target.