I have three things I’d like some feedback on.
First – Battlefield Commander vs Beseige/Assail. Since the revamp everyone seems to think Battlefield Commander is the way to go. I tried it out for a little bit and it just didn’t seem to be all that amazing. I don’t have any numbers to back myself up right now, but from the testing on dummies and parses and stuff that I did, having Assail and besiege with no cooldown just seemed to serve better than BC and straight up HoFS.
So if BC is really all that much better – why? What am I missing? I haven’t had the ability to raid T4 yet, but in T3 and all the K6’s I’ve done, I can main tank anything. I can aggro swap with no issues (depending on if I’m against a goad spammer or not of course) and don’t feel like I’m under par. I’ve shared my build and rotation with a few other people and the comments I’ve gotten is that it’s a beast of a build. But that still doesn’t help me out with BC vs Besiege/Assail. If I can be a better conq, I want to be – but I just don’t understand why BC is the rave now.
Second – before the revamp it was mentioned to me to make sure to get 8 points into the carnage tree to get fully feated Fierce Opening. I never did until recently...just too lazy to try I guess. Well I finally put the points in, and then was told it’s no longer necessary because of the revamp. Brutes dish out enough without needing to touch the carnage side at all. I didn’t have any problems to make me switch those 8 points around, I just was slow to the draw in changing my build…so now I’m wondering if it really does still help or if I should just go back to where I was before. I loved my old build, so it was more of a test for me – that I think may have failed but not totally sure.
Third – People have also said that weapon swapping to use Breach and Bloodbath makes you a better brute as well. Getting the debuff and the dot is better than staying 2h the whole time. However, I’ve recently tried that as well, and my dps went down. In Frenzy with my dps set on, I parsed higher on Arby without the DW combos than I did with them (I didn’t get Blood Draw either encounter, so my time on Arby was the same). Is it a matter of getting used to these new combos in my rotation or am I missing something else? I don’t have BB VII – I’ve just got VI – but it just didn’t seem to be worth swapping for. Perhaps it’s because I moved those 8 points into carnage? Again I’m not sure what I did ‘wrong’ since I felt like it was a step backwards for me.
Now please before you post - I'm not a numbers person. Stats and formulas to determine the best DPS or output for x input in y instance against z type of damage - that doesn't make sense to me most of the time. I want a valid arguement but if you spew out a tl;dr post with all these figures and stuff, I'll blow past it. Now that's not to say I want pure opinion with no validation, I'm just saying all that stuff won't compute in my head.