I think you are going in both a correct and incorrect direction with yellow traits. Introducing Yellow to add in really good utility/versatility to the wardens kit. That is awesome. I think though you are one step forward and one step back, particularly with removing the desolation fear. There's no good reason to remove this.

Assailment/Javelin stuff was really shoehorned into yellow. Yellow was originally the 'Line of the Fist' in the same way that Red was/is 'Line of the spear' and Blue is 'Line of the shield'. For the most part, Red and Blue have kept their themes and will even keep to their themes better after many of these changes. Because Javelin is being removed as a trait line, Yellow is now in a bit of a limbo. Although this is a healthier state for the yellow tree to be in than being Javelin, it is a missed opportunity for this update to return it to its proper theme. But, perhaps you could think forward and come back to it someday in the future and return Yellow line to its rightful theme of 'Line of the Fist' in a future update.


Here's an idea of how this could look:

- Keep Desolations fear. Add a trait in yellow to increase the fear chance per tick and the number of targets it can hit. Have it add an additional effect that, say, increases the targets induction timer and decreases move speed. Every time the fear chance occurs without procing the fear, this debuff tiers up. If the target is feared, the tiered debuff gets cashed out for some sort of effect (e.g., 10 second fear, or max critical defence/mitigation debuffs etc) that scales with the number of tiers. If it doesn't, the debuff effect tiers up.

- Could return a similar effect to war cry and brink of victory. Or maybe war-cry and brink could give some of those tiering up debuffs, which desolations fear would cash out somehow.