After hittin' 80 ('freak yeah), I've finally got Fans of freakin' Knives! This is our first (and only) AoE (area of effect) attack. Mostly all classes know what an AoE is, because every single 'freakin' class in the game has had them... but us rogues (and no, combat spec and talents are not AoE's). An AoE is an attack that damages anything in the circle, simple as that.
So, we've all been waiting to find out... is Fan of Knives bitchin' or not? It's bitchin'. Now only does it look good, but it also does decent damage. The bad... it uses 50% energy and it has a 10 second cool down. That's a long time. But here's the good, very, very surprising news... 'freakin' Fan of Knives will actually apply poison to your targets! Yeah, no kiddin'... Basically, the way it works is... any targets in a 8 yard radius will get one auto attack hit from both of your weapons. You'll see two attack numbers float above each target... one attack is your main hand weapon and the other is your off hand.
Now here's the interesting thing... this isn't a "magical" attack like most AoE's, this is an actual "weapon" attack so your targets can parry, dodge or block either one of your AoE hits. And that's pretty tight it's like that. And don't worry, both weapons attack at the same time so the odds of both attacks being dodged, parried or blocked are slim.
So back to what we were talkin' 'bout, not only will all weapons attack any targets near you, but each weapon has a chance to poison your target, whatever poison is on your blade at the time. As you can see in the screen shot, there's a lot happening here. I choose to do Fan of Knives near a heroic boss target dummy and level 70 target dummy. The boss is getting hit by my off hand I assume (244) and has parried, dodged or blocked the main hand hit. The level 70 target dummy is getting hit by I assume my main hand (652) and by my off hand (221). But, there's an extra hit there... you can see the poison visual FXs on the target dummy, so clearly that 592 number is my instant poison. So not only am I hitting the level 70 target dummy for 873 from my weapon damage, but my instant poison takes the damage to that target up to 1468. Now picture doin' damage to multiple targets. Yeah, now you get how useful Fan of Knives can be.
We understand how it works... now, how's it in action? I wanted to wait to write this until I was able to use it in some heroics. Let me tell ya, it's 'freakin' amazing!.
Tactics for using Fan of Knives is so much different than anything else we've faced because, simply, we've never had an AoE before... so I'm gonna' cover Fan of Knives tactics, both for PvE and PvP in another post later so we can really get into deep.
So is Fan of Knives fuckin' sexy? Yes... Is Fan of Knives fuckin' awesome? Yes... Is it everything we've been hpin' for? Oh 'freak yeah... If you ain't usin' Fan of Knives, you don't know what your missin' baby.
Jeaxx
We understand how it works... now, how's it in action? I wanted to wait to write this until I was able to use it in some heroics. Let me tell ya, it's 'freakin' amazing!.Tactics for using Fan of Knives is so much different than anything else we've faced because, simply, we've never had an AoE before... so I'm gonna' cover Fan of Knives tactics, both for PvE and PvP in another post later so we can really get into deep.
So is Fan of Knives fuckin' sexy? Yes... Is Fan of Knives fuckin' awesome? Yes... Is it everything we've been hpin' for? Oh 'freak yeah... If you ain't usin' Fan of Knives, you don't know what your missin' baby.
Jeaxx
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