Small question about PvE arms.

[Haswell1990l]

Hello, just wondering if with the Venthyr covenant our opener changes? Do we still use bladestorm on single target with the Colossus Smash debuff, or pump these executes till 80%?

[Bigbazz]

I mean it depends how you've spec'd and how long the combat lasts, but for the most part from 100-80% you charge > CS > and then use Execute/Overpower depending on rage and use MS with 2 stacks to maintain Deep Wounds, only Slam if your rage is high. In a dungeon HC/Mythic you should barely ever need to press Slam and you should never press Whirlwind. Bladestorm you're only really using on single target during downtime while building rage, so maybe in a dungeon that's between 80-35%.

As for 2 stack MS vs Condemn. A 40rage condemn only has slightly more base damage than a 30 rage 2x stack MS, however with 20% rage refunded the effective cost of Condemn drops to 32 rage and Condemn ignores armor so in practice hits a lot harder than the tooltip comparison. So if Condemn is available to press you're only using MS to keep DW up.

How things change later on with more of the SL systems active and Legendaries I'm not sure, didn't play the beta really and of course it will depend on variables.