You do realise that the most anyone can have in character deck is two? That's not consistency, that's "lucky draw" - and you're not guaranteed to...
So does other team. You CAN have formation where enemy has to nimble strike frontal visible parry or waste nimble strike without attack to get...
That is matter of proper positioning (often including positioning in round before that - so, player "skill") and map design. Nimble Strike isn't...
The point of consistency is to support chosen playstyle. Vibrant Pain supports "step warrior" archetype (i think it can be called archetype at...
Ekaterinburg, Russia... i guess that would be Europe? :)
Encumber effects all have more range then can be covered in single Nimble Strike. It's fairly rare to see situation where encumber is irrelevant...
You got to remember that Vibrant Pain is far from being the only weapon featuring Nimble Strike - some of them even tokenless.
Let me show my current setup with Vibrant Pain on warrior used in double warrior - priest team, so that you can see how it actually works....
Nimble Strike mostly works because Frenzy Buffs for it are relatively easy to get - and they add more damage to "baseline". But basic +3 Frenzy...
If you look at other Legendary lvl 18 options, you'll see: Axe of the Titans - 36 damage total (with 20 from two Obliterating Chop - so up to 56...
It would be more strategic if it would consider all spots occupied at start of Whirlwind not valid as final destination, rather then spots...
1500-1700 is about 40 people total though, and not everyone plays draw even there.
I think draw deck domination is overblown. Do they exist? Yep. Are they not fun for other side once they start rolling? Yep. Do they dominate...
It never felt tied to rating to me... in fact, it looked fairly consistently closer to "higher chest -> higher wait" - first ones at 1-2m, last...
Apparently whatever you cast also counts as "controlled by enemy" - so Ducked Cone of Cold cannot be Purged by enemy priest because it counts as...
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