Champion/Warden
- Increased Sharpened Axe damage gain to 162% from 112%.
- Reduced Explosion Wave earth damage gain to 5% from 30%.
- Changed Thorny Strike to have 3s of cast time, increased cooldown to 8s from 6.
- Changed Rune Pulse to reset cooldown of Charged Chop and Power of the Wood Spirit entirely.
Analysis:
It seems like the goal is to boost singletargetdamage with a nice strong Thorny Strike. However, it is not worth it to apply debuff with a very weak Frantic Slash to then do a strong Thorny Strike. Those two skills costs 2 GCDs and that is two seconds of not resetting Charged Chop with Rune Pulse.
Currently just simply spamming Charged Chop + Rune Pulse results in not only higher damage, but is more consistent because the damage is independant of current target.
Feedback:
Allow Frantic Slash and Thorny Strike to also reset Charged Shop (reward active gameplay)
Thanks for the update regardless! Now this class is worth playing thanks to Explosion Wave miss not hurting too much and boosting damage independant of element.