Small choices: Booming/Demo/Unbridled
Talents March 15th, 2007So, you are offspecing fury, you want to get enrage and stuff, and you need 10 points in fury to begin with. So you put 5 points into cruelty, and have to choose between 3 other 5-point talents and none of them seems to be vastly superior. Let’s see what we have got.
Unbridled Wrath - this talent, imho, should be named Unbridled Talent Waste. With recent change in patch 2.0.10, with slow 2h weapon you get about 90% chance to get 1 rage with a normal regular white hit. Comparing to Anger Management - a ONE point talent in arms - this thing blows. AM generate 1 rage every 3 seconds, ALWAYS, even when you are still running to your target, being rooted or whatever. 5/5 UW gives you about 1 rage per 4.2 second with 3.8 speed weapon (assuming 90% chance), so it’s 5 times more expensive, and still worse then AM. The only good thing about UW is that, if you already have AM, it does stack with it, and other choices for low fury talents are also not so uber, so if you are finding yourself to be rage-starving, it’s something you can pick.
Improved Demo Shout - everyone used to have it when it was required for piercing howl, then the requirement was removed and the talent got buffed to 40% increase. Demo shout untalented debuff 300 attack power - that means this talent reduce ap by another 120 to full 420 attack power - that’s god damn 30 weapon dps. Fully talented, you change a guy with Bloodmoon into a guy with Crow Wing Reaper, it’s very underrated talent, and is great to use on arena against a team with warrior+rogue where surviving is critical.
Booming Voice - a strong choice that gives you a bit of everything. It makes commanding/battle/demo shouts longer - saving you from reapplying them often (and thus saving rage and global coodown), it gives range for shouts so you can use demoshout as a great destealth or range-combat-apply (mostly anti-rogue-kite). Handy, worth it.
Whatever you choose, there will be someone who will say your choice suck. One thing you should know however - if you are arms/fury spec, have 5/5 UW but no AM from arms, put your WoW CDs back to the box, uninstall the game and sell your account to someone who has at least slightest skill in math.
Terhix
March 15th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
I was actually asking about this this morning on wow boards, wondering how much rage you would generate from UW and if its worth it. Figured it sucked, problem is the other 2 options are not stellar either. In 2v2 arena match will rarely last longer than 2 min, so the extra min on shouts is meh (but still a nice rage saver in pve, and the improved range helps for party and for enemies who are spread out).
120 more ap reduction from imp demo shout is nice, but not enough for 5 points really imo.
All 3 of them are kind of crap, personally I’ll probably go back to booming voice when I respec.
March 21st, 2007 at 8:39 pm
Update - imo booming voice is well ahead of the other 2 options. The improved range is excellent for when a rogue vanishes. I have nailed them almost every single time since speccing booming voice, whereas before they would frequently be able to get out of range of demo shout quickly.
The 3 minutes is gravy in pvp and pve. If you’re like me you usually try to refresh once its under 1 minute, so in a way booming voice doubles the duration ^^
March 21st, 2007 at 11:18 pm
This is one of the biggest headaches I have when distributing talent points in the first tiers of the Fury tree. For the most part all 3 talents are lackluster. Currently I have UBW but I plan to switch to booming voice or imp demo shout next time I respect. 1 rage every 3.6ish seconds is simply horrible for 5pts. Imp demo shout is definitely very underrated. The dps debuff is a lot more then most people realize
April 11th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
[...] in my build. First thing is - I dropped Booming Voice for 5/5 Unbridled Wrath. I’ve said a lot of shit about UW in the past, but I ended my post with “so if you are finding yourself to be rage-starving, [...]