Reinventing Durambar

[Concillian]

Indeed. Deep Wounds is, at a casual glance, a nice talent -- but in reality, it doesn't work like that.

It takes 3 seconds for DW to do its first damage tick. If you crit between ticks, it resets the debuff. This means you do not get the full 40% extra damage per crit. At all. (This also means it gets worse the more crit% you have.)

Impale is a good talent, though. Not a huge bonus, but still nice.

Strange that you think Impale is better than Deep wounds because everytime I closely analyze my WWS logs on Gruul / Lurker / whatever Deep wounds is clearly quite significantly more damage than impale. Yes I'm 2H now, but even when I look at Johnybeef (our 44F / 17A warrior) Deep Wounds is equal or better than Impale for him. The two combined usually total around 5% total damage increase with about 2% coming from impale and 3% from deep wounds. For myself as 2H it's more like 5-8% from deep wounds (less overwriting, larger ticks) and ~2% for Impale.

Neither is HUGE, but both add damage. But in reality the arms points are 17 talent points for just these two talents plus a bunch of misc. junk that you won't use (not enough threat margin for HS, shouldn't be parrying, TC maybe but how often is a DPS warrior in battle stance? Anger management a small rage boost, but not huge)