r/warcraft3 • u/Dark_Blue_Night • 14h ago
Forsaken Kingdom Feedback: Garek's Grim Conviction ability is an underwhelming failure for what is supposed to be an "ultimate spell".
Hello Community,
I’m highly enjoying the game, with almost all good things to say about it. However, as feedback intended for Blizzard Developers and the Community intended to spur discussion, I highly recommend that the Grim Conviction “Ultimate Spell” for Garek Bandarion during the Single Player Campaign be 100%, completely reworked.
Ultimate Spells are supposed to be flashy, fun, and effective. That's why there's a whole one or two minute cooldown, after all. Instead, this “Ultimate Spell” basically takes away a third of your hitpoints and replaces it with 33% lifesteal. That’s it. I actually don't use the spell since it is a waste of mana. Even the animation isn’t new or unique, it’s a lazily borrowed and reskinned Bloodlust. So the spell almost does totally nothing and the visual effect isn't new (.... or even good).
Additionally, I'm looking at the Talents submenu and none of them demonstrably affect Grim Conviction much, if at all. Of the three Talents that supposedly buff Grim Conviction, the "best" merely adds a few extra seconds to the spell. Compare that to Captain Landen's Weighted Net and Mass Arrest, which completely changed the functionality of his Apprehension spell. Mass Arrest even gives the User Interface a brand new targeting icon where you throw the net, that wasn't there before. It's that special attention and love of detail briefly shown to Captain Landen on a common ability, that I expect to see over on Garek's side too. That is the level of attention to detail and professionalism that is the Expected Behavior for a AAA game, not what we got with Grim Conviction.
An Ultimate Spell is supposed to be useful and fun, this is neither. In fact, this one is a HARD NEGATIVE on the experience because it takes away from another concept that could be there instead. In fact, this one is so bad I’m not really sure why this made it into the game, it doesn’t pass standard industry QA controls, let alone the vaunted “Blizzard polish”. It’s like a developer typed up placeholder, throwaway spell just to have something iterative for the day’s build. It made its way into the developer and Change List, but then they clearly forgot to replace this placeholder with something real.
I'm really hoping that Blizzard prioritize reworking this one ability from scratch ASAP. It really stands out from an otherwise pretty solid product as a glaring defect that still needs to be fixed after they admittedly rushed the game out for launch in order to make Blizzcon. Blizzard, please don't forget to clean up this mistake! Give us something fun and cool right here.
