[Review] [IB] Ancestor's Fury & Oathbound uptime
Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 2:35 pm
Ironbreakers have a plethora of buffs via Oathfriend, however, i would like to focus on two of them, AncestorĀ“s Fury and Oathfriend. this are arguably the ones you should try to have always up, AF is a single target +str and +10% crit and OF is +ini and +25% parry with a 10 secs uptime and 0 cooldown.
The issue: GCD economy.
The GCD on ror is 1.15 seconds, lets imagine an ideal scenario where A) You have 35 grudge before entering melee range B) You spend said grudge to buff yourself in an ideal manner, that is, Stubborn as stone into AF/OF, spending 3 gcds before you can hit in melee range and the gcd refreshes just when you are able to hit.
For the next 10 seconds you are free to do anything you want without worrying about the buffs, that is 8 GCDs. In those 8 GCDs you are free to do your tank job, that is snaring, armor debuffing, punting, Kding someone, maybe you put your healdebuff on some healer, maybe you even heavy blow someone for that little extra dps, use some of the other buffs like +armor or + toughness or +WS, hell, swapping guard is something you should probably do and it doesnt take a GCD but it does take you some time, which most likely will eat a GCD by itself even if doesnt use it.
That sounds wonderfull, maybe a little tight to use all those tools on those 8 gcds, which is fine, you shouldnt have everything up all the time but lets push it a bit further and see what happens when AF/OF need to be refreshed.
AFter the first 10 seconds, you know have to choose between doing all of that or keeping your buffs up, which reduces your GCDs to do all those things, to 6, that is when you dont have to refresh SaS, that would make it 5, however that only happens every 20 seconds.
And that is the whole issue, a Kobts can and will provide crit and buffs to his whole group passively via auras, will even debuff the enemy, same for the SM, the Stat steal gives you similar values (more stats, less crit) for the whole group while debuffing the enemy one, at no GCD cost. That means they can spend those gcds in actively doing their role, IB cant say the same.
Solution: Raise the duration of AF/OF to 20 seconds.
At first you could make a case for them being out the GCD but i dont think that is a good idea as long as NB exist, it would just trivialize them into a part of the string that i dont have to even think about while i do everything else, that may be fine for other tanks but IB being the tank you just have to push more buttons with makes him a bit more special and interesting, lets keep it that way.
With a 20 secs duration, they would be refreshed along with SaS and will leave you with a loot more room to use everything else IB has, which imo is something that is sorely needed, things like the +thoughness attack are almsot never used because there is just not enough time to put them into your rotation, on top of that, it would put them a bit more on par with the other 2 tanks of order.
The issue: GCD economy.
The GCD on ror is 1.15 seconds, lets imagine an ideal scenario where A) You have 35 grudge before entering melee range B) You spend said grudge to buff yourself in an ideal manner, that is, Stubborn as stone into AF/OF, spending 3 gcds before you can hit in melee range and the gcd refreshes just when you are able to hit.
For the next 10 seconds you are free to do anything you want without worrying about the buffs, that is 8 GCDs. In those 8 GCDs you are free to do your tank job, that is snaring, armor debuffing, punting, Kding someone, maybe you put your healdebuff on some healer, maybe you even heavy blow someone for that little extra dps, use some of the other buffs like +armor or + toughness or +WS, hell, swapping guard is something you should probably do and it doesnt take a GCD but it does take you some time, which most likely will eat a GCD by itself even if doesnt use it.
That sounds wonderfull, maybe a little tight to use all those tools on those 8 gcds, which is fine, you shouldnt have everything up all the time but lets push it a bit further and see what happens when AF/OF need to be refreshed.
AFter the first 10 seconds, you know have to choose between doing all of that or keeping your buffs up, which reduces your GCDs to do all those things, to 6, that is when you dont have to refresh SaS, that would make it 5, however that only happens every 20 seconds.
And that is the whole issue, a Kobts can and will provide crit and buffs to his whole group passively via auras, will even debuff the enemy, same for the SM, the Stat steal gives you similar values (more stats, less crit) for the whole group while debuffing the enemy one, at no GCD cost. That means they can spend those gcds in actively doing their role, IB cant say the same.
Solution: Raise the duration of AF/OF to 20 seconds.
At first you could make a case for them being out the GCD but i dont think that is a good idea as long as NB exist, it would just trivialize them into a part of the string that i dont have to even think about while i do everything else, that may be fine for other tanks but IB being the tank you just have to push more buttons with makes him a bit more special and interesting, lets keep it that way.
With a 20 secs duration, they would be refreshed along with SaS and will leave you with a loot more room to use everything else IB has, which imo is something that is sorely needed, things like the +thoughness attack are almsot never used because there is just not enough time to put them into your rotation, on top of that, it would put them a bit more on par with the other 2 tanks of order.