Playstyle Overview
Tariq is a melee DPS who revolves around Swing Timers and his main resource: Fury.
Fury is a generic resource bar that is built and spent with rotational abilities, and his swing timer is a thick bar that constantly has a moving line on it representing when he will auto attack. An auto attack will occur when this line reaches the end of the bar, and you can empower his attacks with your Heavy Strike. Towards the end of the bar is a zone in which you lock in a Heavy Strike and any other ability used within this threshold will cancel it. Paying attention to this is very important.
Fury generation can depend on various things and have a somewhat inconsistent effect on our rotation. As a result we have less of a strict rotation and more of a priority system. You’ll have a priority system for building Fury, and then how you choose to spend it depends on the target count.
Rotation (Priority)
This priority looks like this:
- Thunder Call
- Chain Lightning
- Leap Smash
- Wild Swing
- Face Breaker
- Heavy Strike
You have a handful of ways to generate Fury, but only a select few finishers to use what you build. These finishers include Hammer Storm, Skull Crusher and Culling Strike. Hammer Storm can be considered your multi target spender, Skull Crusher single target, and Culling Strike is a single target execute type ability for when your target is below 30% health. Culling Strike is not worth using when multiple targets are present unless you’re wanting to focus down a priority mob.
One thing to be aware of is a handful of your abilities are also off the GCD. Understanding what is off the GCD and what is on it is important. Unless you’re holding for a specific reason, it’s best to just use these buttons off cooldown.
Outside of your rotational abilities, we have a handful of cooldowns and interactions worth noting. Thunder Call empowers your spenders to deal Lightning damage, Focused Wrath is a buff to 2 of our spenders, making them deal more damage and have a reduced fury cost. This should be used on cooldown.
Then we have Tariq’s ultimate: Raging Tempest. Raging Tempest doesn’t change the way we play but it further empowers our Thunder Call for its duration, dealing more damage and increasing expertise by 1% stacking up to 20 times. You also gain 30% haste for 20 seconds.
And lastly I wanted to touch on Leap Smash a little more. Your ideal legendary ties a damage taken increase to mobs that you leap on. With this in mind it’s important to note leap is hasted and has a very short cd so should be used as your top priority.