It’s just a matter of degree. Slice and Dice isn’t too bad used as every other finisher or so (though even then it’s such a game-changer that having it fall off is devastating). Slice and Dice as something you had to do every other attack would be masochistic (and yeah, Hunger for Blood might be close).

Brain Freeze doesn’t proc all that often to where you’re literally doing Frost Bolt / Fireball / Frost Bolt / Fireball.

Really though one of the biggest differences is the role. If dps specs don’t have some kind of rotation or priority system, they become boring to play. With tanks and healers, they have a lot going on in addition to using their abilities. We do ask dps specs to sometimes do really important things in a raid, and they often have to move out of the fire or whatever, but then again, so do the healers and tanks.

I’m not saying tanks shouldn’t be hitting buttons often. They need to in order to be fun. But there are two extremes that both sort of suck. One is you have to hit a button constantly that has very little depth to the decision. The other is that you never want to push the button because you’re saving it. Cooldown plays into this a lot. On a 15 sec cooldown, any time you’re saving the ability, you’re probably wasting it. On a 60 min cooldown, any time you use the ability you feel like you’re wasting it. Somewhere in the 2-3 minute timeframe you can feel like it’s okay to use the abilities often, but you can also hold them on occasion for those scary periods where the boss is bursting damage on you or the healers are repositioning or whatever.

I don’t think we’re horribly off with the cooldowns today, but I think we are off.
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