Originally Posted by
HiFish
Our rotation is NOT being simplified. Its getting MORE complex. How do people not get this?
Our ST and AoE rotation already are the same. The only difference is that on ST you use your blood runes for HS (which a lot of dks don't even do anymore, they use BB even on ST) and on AoE for BB. Your rotation stays exactly the same.
Snapshoting was a mechanic that wasn't very intuitive, relied heavily on rng so it could screw you over pretty bad, and was disliked by a lot of players. The only reason blood dks even did it was because our rotation was so simple we had litterally nothing else to do. This is getting addressed in WoD, with the changes to SoB, DC and RT.
when do you put any thought into using HS? you use it in the rare situation where you are not RP capped, can't DS (delaying it or no free runes), and are only tanking one mob. Also, it's not getting removed. Pest REPLACES it, meaning that in every situation you use HS now you will use Pest instead.
The longer DS window does make things easier, but was neccessary because our defenses are so reactive we got screwed by certain boss mechanics numerous times. To compensate for this small simplification, we got the changes to SoB, DC and RT, which will require more thought than watching an addon telling you when to DS (provided you even time DS, most of the time you can go perfectly well with spamming it)