@Kretan : It was just a friendly shade Don't read too much into it, I have nothing against you and your absolute optimism, it's refreshing actually to have both
Why am I so against it ? Lemme think.
We have voidform, during voidform you get a lot of haste. With lot of haste, you have your main damage/insanity generation spells having their cd reduced heavily. Those spell basically force you to use them when they are up because that's how the playstyle is intended to be.
Now, for some unknown reason, they decided to give us a talent that makes our filler deal more damage (stacking) and said buff lasts for a few second... making you wanna keep it up. Now, that's all great except during high voidform stacks (and especially during execute) you don't have really much time to cast a filler. Then you add in the 4p... making you want to use VB a lot. It is bad design, it goes totally against the core gameplay of the class. It is a stupid talent.
Now Mindspike.... it's the same deal, during high stack you'll barely have the time to cast the damn spell. They put a stacking on it which is totally contrary to how the class was designed to be during voidform. How can you not see it ? I'd rather have them buff the talent and remove the stack mechanic because it is the dumbest thing ever.
I'd be okay with Voidray if Void Bolt, Void Torrent and Mindblast refreshed the duration of the buff (not adding stacks, just preventing the buff from falling off). Because as it currently stands, it's so poorly implemented.
Lemme just say that : the LotV change is retarded. Voidray needs to be tweaked further/replaced. Mind Spike I can live with.
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Why would I reduce my ST dps just so I can do more damage on adds that will be destroyed so fast by our aoe masters DH/warriors. Tho I see mind spike being good in a council type of fight (up until you can't cast it anymore and I'd rather pick stm on a council fight because those +200% dot damage along with our crazy haste will deal so much damage).
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Anyway, I'm gonna wait for numbers before completely hating on Mind Spike. I think it's the least of our issue atm. And yes, I do agree that it is a change in the right direction for this talent, i'm not completely ignoring the devs trying to make it appealing. It's just not there yet for me.