08-18-2012, 11:48 PM
(08-16-2012, 07:45 PM)swirly Wrote: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/6923460/
I'm excited about the Whirlwind buff. The way Whirlwind is in D3 has always seemed overly fun to me, but it has just been hard to stick with. So I'm hoping it being buffed will make it to where I can justify keeping it around. I'm less, but still excited about the Bash boost. It seems to be the generator I keep wanting to use and so it being buffed will help. It just doesn't seem quite as excitement causing of an idea as the Whirlwind one though for some reason.
Overall I'd say that it'll be fun having more skills being strong, but there is something about these previews that is feeling a bit underwhelming as well. I think that it is just a numbers adjustment. Which will help, but it isn't exciting.
The rend buff seems really good for 2H builds. Rend/Bloodlust = 700% weapon damage/5 seconds and 9% (reduced to 1.8% in inferno) lifesteal. That's good enough to replace revenge on my bar. I never really liked revenge as a source of healing, as I don't like having my healing dependent on the RNG.
Still not terribly enthusiastic about bash, though it looks like it has potential in a WoTB sustain build (bash/onslaught + mighty weapon + weapon master = 8 + 3 + 3 = 14 fury per hit, if you can reach 1.8 attacks per second that's enough to get you the 25 fury/sec needed to maintain WoTB indefinitely).