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[Spilo]

PROBLEMS

As Spilo already mentioned, shadow warg feels clunky to play right now, for 2 reasons linked between them:

- loss of 2 immediates
- buffs being added to 2 of the slowest animation skills (Scratch & Snip, Pounce)

So at the moment, it feels too time consuming to apply Pounce buff + S&S buff + many more absurdely long animation skills (shadow fang debuff/bleed, fleas, shadow pack, the new Howl of Unnerving, Howl from the Shadow), with pretty much only eye-gouge to try and cut them. This coupled with the fact that shadow warg is the most fragile creep class and the only one without a reliable form of sustain makes things pretty ugly, simply can't indulge in wasting any time during a fight.
I like the idea of "jaw" and "claw" skill types, it gives something to work with in terms of awareness, reducing the mindless spam. But it need some more work to be properly rewarding in terms of damage.


FEW SUGGESTIONS

1. Move the pounce buff to Swipe, it's already the corruption designed skill in Flayer stance, it makes sense to have an alternate version for Shadow.

2. Something that might help with giving the class a more defined rythm and rotation can be looking at red minstrel's dps rotation (on live atleast), alternating 1s cd high crit chance skills (ballads, very similar to warg's bestial claws) with long animation big hitting skills (called cries and calls) + immediate (piercing cry, which cooldown is reset by ballads).

Agreed!

Something I just noticed with flayer is the Swipe Brute bonus is a bit redundant with the Brute skill- using swipe increases your bonus by 50%, which, in combination with Brute means it's 75% chance, so when you add another stack from swipe (which lasts 30s), you now have a 125% chance- kinda meaningless. What if the Brute bonus for swipe was reduced to 20-25%, the Brute bonus for the skill Brute was 50% (to make it a more useful CD), and go from there? Would require more thought for the 100% uptime.

Also, the brute debuffs from Brutal fangs needs to be buffed, and probably should add another Brute debuff elsewhere, on Scratch and Snip for example, as there's really not enough interested debuffs here.

Finally, I think the defensive buffs Flayer are too high for the DPS it puts out. Shadow Warg took a DPS nerf, Flayer warg got nothing but damage buffs. This should be a solely defensive/debuff stance- I'd recommend starting with a small nerf to Agonizing Maul and Raking Claw (and its bleed), and probably reduce the inc damage reduction from 10% to 5-6%, then compensate by adding another debuff to the class+buffing the mit debuff from Fangs.


Also, want to re-iterate that the auto interrupt from new Fleas is gross and dumb.