Kalgan on the topic of the PvP trinket change

#0 - May 18, 2007, 12:13 a.m.

Q u o t e:
I honestly do feel this is a buff to the trinket.

Warriors play the slowing game very well with hamstring or piercing howl. You’re slowed, they’re slowed… it’s generally not that bad of a scenario. If the target slips out of melee range, intercept gives you a pretty good shot at getting back within range so you can be mutually slowed (especially after the fix where you aren’t slowed while intercepting).

Also, in most cases where the target can slip away again, they can usually immediately re-apply their slowing effect anyways (with no diminishing returns), negating most of the value of a 1-time break.

In competitive play, the trinket rarely gets used to exclusively break a slowing effect, it’s almost always saved to break an immobilizing effect which is far more dangerous to a warrior (or a long-duration stun).


By comparison, the effect of an undispelled long duration cc like polymorph tends to affect the outcome of a fight much more drastically than an undispelled snare.

So, while there are of course posts where some warriors feel they’d prefer the snare removal, there are also plenty of warriors I know of on top arena teams that feel the polymorph removal is the stronger overall option. I wouldn’t say that PTR feedback is pointless, I’d say that people with an opinion contradictory to your own have gotten their way this time.