Subtlety Rogue Review of Deathstalker Hero Talents - Trying to Do Too Many Things

The War Within Publié 03/06/2024 à 06:02 par fuu1

Hero Talents are an extension of the Talent system designed to explore class fantasy with a third talent tree, separate from your class and specialization. With the release of Alpha, Blizzard has previewed most Hero Talents Trees coming in the next expansion, The War Within.
The War Within Hero Talents Overview

Our Guide Writers have provided initial first impressions on the Hero Talent Trees revealed so far. Check out all of our released Hero Talent reviews in our new Editorial Section.

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Every cast of applies 3 stacks of .

Stacks are currently limited to a maximum of 9 stacks.

Using a damaging Finishing move (,, or ) on 5 or more combo points consumes one stack, deals Plague damage and applies for 12 seconds.

The buff empowers your next , or by 10%.

Exploiting your Marked target

- The capstone allows you to maintain on the target. It does so by applying a 30-second buff which triggers by using with full combo points. Doing so makes a critical strike, deals Plague damage to the target, and applies 3 stacks of . Taking advantage of this node seems difficult in both single and multi-target scenarios.

- Is a mostly passive talent which adds Plague damage to your auto attacks.

- Deals part of the damage done to secondary targets back to your marked target as Plague damage and is a nice way to increase priority damage. However, the amount of redirected damage is fairly small and clone attacks from don't count for the redirect, lowering potential benefits further.

- Increases shadow damage by 10% after your major cooldown for 3 seconds. The duration and damage amplifier seem low, making this node difficult to utilize well.

- Your next produces one additional combo point and deals additional Shadow damage after applying . Putting damage as Shadow instead of Plague is an interesting choice. This talent is designed around low target cleave (2-3 targets), the additional combo points become quickly irrelevant as a consequence of the per-target combo point generation of .

- Adds a lot of mobility by reducing the cooldown of every time we consume one stack of . This can be fairly high during cooldowns like leading to a finishing move every second attack.

Who unleashed the Plague?

- Is a damage increase in the form of Plague damage to our combo point generator while is up. The bonus should always be active because of . The choice of is surprising as it is the weakest of Subtleties combo point builders and is mainly used outside of cooldowns and instead of as the condition seems out of place.

- Increases the damage of by adding a stacking dot which deals Plague damage. The stacks completely refresh every time you apply or refresh an active . This behavior can be a limiting factor and is designed in a way that doesn't integrate well with existing nodes like .

Let's not forget about the rest of the Tree

Damage Nodes:

Increases the damage of your next or by 10% after casting . The node is practically passive because is always lined up with .

/ - Both nodes increase damage dealt by and in a passive form and are likely to be very close in output.

Utility Nodes:

- Increases the duration of by 5 seconds. Should work well with and and gives Subtlety a convinient niche for speeding up dungeons.

/ - A choice node increasing the effectiveness of our defenses. seems overall more efficient making both and a universal damage reduction. only increases the duration of , something with little practical use.

Discussion and Concerns Does Not Work!Multiple Difficult to Utilize Talent NodesTarget Switching with Emphasizing Weaknesses Not StrengthsDeathstalker's Missing Link

The harbingers of death, Deathstalkers strike from the shadows to bring a swift end to their targets.

Takeaways and Future perspective Summary:Final word

author: fuu

Rogue Theorycrafter of ~8 years, moderator in the Rogue Discord. Guide writer and Subtlety enthusiast. Happy to answer questions about Rogue.

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