I personally didn’t even feel very strongly about Fast Hands before this last beta weekend, but after trying a sinister burn build against the Red Guardian and other content, it just feels kind of underwhelming?
if you want to maintain your burns properly, you need to either take Last Blaze and slot a bunch of Rage utilities, or Smash Brawler and rely heavily on Combustive Shot/Scorched Earth and Flaming Fury. but even then it doesn’t feel like there’s much of a rotation to it. its just… camp longbow ‘til you can fire off Combustive Shot. Swap to Sword/Torch, blow your cooldowns, maybe pop Berserk if it pops up before weapon swap is ready…. I feel like we should be more encouraged to both use Scorched Earth over Combustive Shot, and actually try to use more than one weapon’s Primal Burst during Berserk.
so, with that in mind, I do think it would be nice if we had Fast Hands baseline, but I’m not going to really get into that as a lot of others already have. what I think we need is an option that would both synergize with Fast Hands and provide an alternative to those who don’t want to take Discipline with Berserker.
what I’m thinking is something along these lines (and sorry if its been suggested before): merge the current effects of Always Angry and Fatal Frenzy (so your first strike when entering combat and after intiating berserk mode grants you adrenaline, quickness and swiftness or something), and replace the current Fatal Frenzy with something like one of these;
- Reduce recharge of weapon swap by 50%
- While under the effects of Berserk, weapon swap has no recharge time.
- While under the effects of Berserk, weapon swap recharges 50% faster.
- Hitting an enemy with a Primal Burst skill causes your next weapon swap to have no recharge.
- Hitting an enemy with a Primal Burst skill causes your next weapon swap to recharge 50% faster.
- While under the effects of Berserk, weapon swap recharges 50% faster. Weapon swapping while under the effects of Berserk grants 30 adrenaline.
idk, I’m sure there’s more creative options than these, and some of these ideas/numbers are probably broken as heck (33% recharge reduction wouldn’t be powerful enough to sub for Fast Hands, 45% is probably about right, 50% would maybe be broken paired with Fast Hands) but they’re just ideas. I feel like an option that can both substitute for Fast Hands and also work well with it is what we need at the moment, that gives the devs more time to think about Fast Hands and baseline Warrior before the next big balance patch hits.
also I’m not A Maths Person, but a potential weapon swap cooldown of 2.5 seconds doesn’t actually seem like a big deal to me. yes, it might be harder for opponents to play around in PvP, but iirc we don’t have very many useful weapon skill cooldowns that are that low enough to really exploit that??
