Originally Posted by
genaian
That would be fine if they added it only to those specs. I play assassination and i played rogue since vanilla beta, and i cant stand SnD. But then again, i dont suffer from nostalgia and only care about gameplay and want numbers to just be competitive, but not at cost of gameplay... other way around is way more acceptable.
This right now means im probably locked out of playing assassination this whole expansion. BfA assassination was very fun to play(granted, azerite powers had something to do with it), no idea why they wanted to make it worse, and only payoff for that addition of plain maintenance buff is that you deal less active damage and more passive damage. Lose-lose for assassination. Purely negative change. Adding even more maintenance and converting active damage into passive damage on top of it. Just insane.
If they added SnD, reduced its attack speed bonus for assassination instead of increasing it and added some energy regen to it, or some new mechanic to get energy to actually help gameplay instead of hurt it, then fine... but as it is, its just terrible and assassination gameplay in SL is pure trash because of it.
At least last time we had cut to the chase, so didnt have to worry much about it. Not to mention that now assassination is doing by far most passive/autoattack damage of all 3 specs, like 40% of total damage. Totally fits the flavor of the spec too.
Blizzard went full ridiculous this expansion. Because some people liked classic, they decided to bring back old crap that should have stayed in the past and screw those of us that prefer retail. Yet another example of how stupid are those that make decisions at blizzard.
Same as how when there are talents that result in very different playstyles, they see that 80% pick one talent (because it provides more dps) and then make it baseline because, well, 80% obviously show majority prefer that one, right? So now those 20% that opted out of it even when it cost them dps are left with no choice but to have that playstyle they hate or not play the spec anymore. Because you lose much less dps by picking one talent over the other, because both are dps increases over baseline, just one is less than the other, but when its baseline... you lose a lot and there is nothing to make up for any dps lost. But for blizzard, thats good change... when in fact its tragedy. Doesnt help the 80% at all, they still play the same, but screws the rest for no reason.
And same is with SnD returning... going for those few that suffer from nostalgia and think vanilla is great or something as silly as that and screws all the rest that dont... for no reason. Add it as talent, so those loving it so much can go for it... let the rest of us actually have fun.