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Comment by QuickBASIC

Important to note that this has a 30 yd range.

Comment by lokuv

If this makes it to live, I will take my wife dancing.

Comment by Bobblybook

Someone over at Blizzard HQ has been playing too much HoN!

This mechanic is very similar to the 3rd skill of Berzerker.

Check out the other rogue ability added in the 5.2 PTR, Hit and Run. Similar to Aluna's "Deja Vu" or Silhouette's "Shadow". Could also be argued this is similar to Monk's Transcendence combined with Shadowstep... though given the other new rogue skill in 5.2 points to HoN, I'm assuming there was at least some influence from the above :)

Comment by 1068660

The 30 yards range meaning that you can get that heavy 5 cb Deadly throw on your target's head!

Comment by Kuikelo

Is this usable while Stealthed? I know that's not the best way to use it but I'm just wondering..

Comment by Taraezor

I like the "kind of" AoE potential, here. Picture a dungeon trash pack of the kind in Grim Batol. A small pack that just won't be instantly blown away by a Mage's Arcane Explosion. They will need a good few seconds to kill them and they won't all go down at the same time:

Mark for Death -> finisher (on a macro as MfD doesn't have a GCD). Killing blow from whomever, doesn't matter -> cooldown reset. Target next mob -> MfD -> finisher and so on.

But as a talent it poses that typical Mists question: do I take this talent or a different one. For this reason Mists is maintaining my interest in the mechanics of various classes.

Comment by 1026281

An interesting talent for battlegrounds. It's fun to keep a look out for opponents who are about to die. If your team is good, free combo points are everywhere. And if you're fighting ungeared enemies, you become a killing machine.

I do miss Shuriken Toss, especially against hunters and mages. That's the tradeoff with this talent -- easier to fight melee, harder to pressure ranged without Shuriken.

Comment by Qoko

Here's my view on PvE, which is primarily Anticipation vs MfD.

Anticipation will, regardless of the short cooldown on MfD, be the preferred talent in a single target fight. Take note that Combat fairs best without Anticipation yet also gains the least from MfD. Assassination and Subtlety are hard to play without Anticipation, and the lost combo points due to crits (Assassin) and HaT procs (Sub) will probably not outweigh the incidental instant 5cp from MfD. Granted, it does give you ~30 free cp on an average fight timer.

This talent however shines extremely on fights with regularly dying adds, and the spec played should hardly matter.

With the recent buff to Envenom, Assassination becomes perfectly playable on switching fights given you can use this on any dying add and gain a lot of excess energy from Venomous Wounds and leftover Rupture.
Of course Combat is already viable switching, this just adds a free Eviscerate.
Sub might even gain the most from this due to instant 5cp Ruptures and SV, Ambush and Backstab away and targets should die quickly giving more MfD.
In pure AoE, spamming MfD on lowest health targets + Crimson Tempest seems to increase rogue AoE by a lot on trash packs.
For all specs and situations counts, if targets are really low on health, just spamming MfD + Envenom/Eviscerate should be very powerful to keep MfD rolling.

Practice may still differ and I think the best application is not fully known yet. It does however open up plenty of abilities to keep combo points rolling and even the easier rogue specs become hard to play when adds are involved, which is a good thing imo.

Comment by Carionom

Don't forget that popping Marked for Death and using that finisher also grants you a free 25 energy with Relentless Strikes (20%x5=100%, so guaranteed) for if you had any problems with energy in your rotation. In that case your finisher with Marked for Death will have after its use it's energy refunded except if it's a direct damage finisher, which cost 10 energy more.

Comment by THuD29

Makes dungeons and raids as Assassination easy to get into your rotation, which is why I love it so much

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Marked for Death

Marked for Death

Talent

30 yd range

Instant	1 min cooldown

Mark the target, instantly generating 5 combo points on them. If the target dies within 1 min Marked for Death's cooldown is reset.

Buff

Spell Details

Duration

1 minute

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

30 yards (Medium)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

1 minute

GCD

0 seconds

Effect #1

Add Combo Points
Value: 5
PVP Multiplier: 1

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Dummy
PVP Multiplier: 1
Server-side script

Effect #3

Trigger Spell

	Marked for Death

Flags

Is Ability
Do Not Sheath
Track Target in Cast (Player Only)
Unaffected by invulnerability
Does not break stealth
Generates no threat
Not an Action
Suppress Caster Procs
No Caster Aura Icon
Not an Attack
Taps immediately
Face unit target upon completion of jump charge

Marked for Death

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