The BM variant was carried by Devastation and the DeathKnight variant was carried by Blitz and Bone Harvest.
CD Aether Forcewave does next to no damage, the skill mod looks really weird tbh.
My proposal is -
Add 100% CDR to make the first and only spam FW shield build
Replace skill mod with 100% CDR and damage penalty to Bone Harvest to enable to the only Bone Harvest spammer
Replace the skill mod with 100% Elemental to Aether mods for Ill Omen and Word of Pain to make this useful for some weird proc based Aether Apostate using WoP and Ill Omen
In its current state this weapon isn’t adding to build diversity. Aether FW builds are still better off going with Temporal Arcblade
I agree that this item is straight up bad. You can’t afford going Forcewave on an aether shield DK/BM, but if you do, you’ll go Mindwarp anyway, because it gives way better stats and RR.
Giving it straight -100% CDR to it would be kind of enormous, since it’d still deal full damage but on no cool down. That could be even more devastating than with two handed weapon. Reducing the damage by 75% WD might be enough of a nerf for that (still would cost the same as without Transmuter, but had weapon damage lowered and the same base damage as without any modifiers). But I doubt Crate will actually touch that weapon (I’d most likely re-build my DK if they remade it with -100% CDR).
Surprised no ones suggested adding 100% conversion of internal trauma to vitality decay to the EoS. Would fit the general DK bonuses it already has. Either that or the aether damage output needs to be seriously boosted to make it a viable skill mod.
Would hardly fix it. Non spam FW strong point is DoT. This weapon boast flat dmg. You’d need a hell of a mod to do it Flat. A dedicated Aether FW set like Krieg is for Blitz