Originally Posted by aylene

Looking at a few older parses of mine some quick napkin math showed me that the bloodthirst attack, counted in number of swings, equaled in a range of 9-12 % of all attacks made on bosses where you are fairly stationed. To be relying on crits on an entity of ~10%, give or take, of all your attacks made to lock up the extra ability, that is truly RNG. The new design is less RNG since it allows you to pick a way bigger number of attacks over the same period of time, thus smoothing out the RNG of critting an attack that is on a cooldown (be it a short one) that is so strikingly clear, especially on these short encounters we're dealing with.

It is indeed RNG-based however, but heavy? That is a matter of perspective what some people consider being heavy RNG. You could state that the whole warrior dps is heavily luckbased to rely on flurry uptime and the like to do damage. But we can at least find out if its less luckbased than having a decent crit rate on ~10 % of your attacks? Absolutely.

What is wrong with an unnormalized attack when we're using 2handers vs another AP-based attack? Please elaborate on this one if you can find the time.

And why slam is on the GCD is a fairly obvious one if you look at the PvP section of this game. Imagine one of those slams at the very same moment you drop a bloodthirst and the second before that a whirlwind. That is some insane damage for being over 1.5 seconds only and is obviously very overpowered.

And as someone stated before that this was an obvious scaling nerf, that is indeed true if Blizzard would only be considering unbuffed warriors. However in raids this new system presents a remarkable scaling alongside with temporary buffs such as Heroism and eventual haste on proc / use, speed pots and so forth. Also the better gear we're getting increases our flurry uptime (albeit high already) which means more overall haste that gives us more attacks over the same time and thus more Bloodsurge procs. Also keep in mind the overall rage gain gets increased (also this one is high already) and since we're not at the gear lvl where we can hs on every mainhand swing and still manage to keep 2 attacks and eventual slams on cooldown that means we only have more procs to look forward to. And if we're looking towards the blueposts stating that Blizzard wants to buff haste for melee, perhaps it gets even better?

While in combat the new scaling of Bloodsurge has significantly increased its value on short term buffs which can prove very useful whenever we're facing an encounter (hopefully in Ulduar) that requires a shitload of damage over a short amount of time, but yet remain a steady source of damage in the longer run.

To conclude, in the beta I was very pessimistic towards the Bloodsurge change and I really didn't like the feeling of how slams would just appear on random and so on. However after extensive hours of practice on rotations I found a sense of how this really is something that can separate a good warrior from a bad one. A good warrior will have to make choices on every encounter and engage himself alot in combat to gain the most amount of damage possible from this talent.