With Arms having access to Sweeping Strikes, Whirlwind, Thunder Clap and the Tier AoE talents... I am calling it now. Not all of this stuff will stay in. My guess is that Sweeping Strikes will go the way of Cleave and get cut.
With Arms having access to Sweeping Strikes, Whirlwind, Thunder Clap and the Tier AoE talents... I am calling it now. Not all of this stuff will stay in. My guess is that Sweeping Strikes will go the way of Cleave and get cut.
Sweeping Strikes is one of the last few arms defining abilities. If it was going to be cut, they would have nabbed it during the pass that took Slam, Sudden Death, OP, and Executioner out.
If anything gets cut, it needs to be some of the over the top AoE talents. Make it so we can get only 1 AoE talent instead of 2-3 of them. Seriously do we need both Bladestorm and Ravager available to the same build?! And then take Shockwave/Dragon Roar on top of that? wtf? I can go from no AoE to wtf just hit that group AoE by swapping out a few talents. There needs to be a more coherent baseline, right now there isn't one. No other class has so much completely optional AoE, and it will cause issues.
I'd also like them to drop Whirlwind as a filler and just give us the new Slam baseline. It'd also be nice to get TClap dropped to 15-20 rage, and resonating power glyph switched (so baseline is 9s cd TC that hits harder, glyph drops it to 6s but makes it hit weaker) so it's efficient enough to be worth using. But that is probably wishful thinking at this point.
True, they can always decide they want to prune more. But seriously they already had a pass where they literally gutted out the majority of Arms. Doing that then going back and taking more away just seems highly unlikely to me.
And SS is a fair bit more useful than cleave, being an actually useful ability you want to press rather than a marginally efficient rage dump. (That said I wouldn't mind seeing it get renamed to Cleave, which is an ability a number of people seem surprisingly attached to for Arms, probably due entirely to Saurfang)
Why would they cut sweeping strikes and keep thunder clap and whirlwind? they basically do the same thing.
Even with the upcoming 20% rage generation increase for arms, I have a hard time figuring how the hell should one AoE as arms. Only feasible way I figured on the beta was to pretty much spam WW and use MS+SS during CS.
There are two threads already open about 6.0 changes:
http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...tation-in-Beta
http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...cussion-thread