Every well-created and thought out build should be viable in some aspect. It is natural that some builds will outperform others, you can’t get past that eventuality. What should be done though is ensure that no build outperforms the general majority or “pack” of builds by too big of a margin - that is what balancing is for.
Usually? Sure. But the fact that Stormrend doesn’t feature any attack speed, features cooldown reduction both globally and to the 2 skills it supports should be a pretty big tip-off that it is not intended for spamming it.
See the above, above comment.
I’m saying what I have said so far because using cooldown Primal Strike and not using Thunderous Strike is evidently what the developer intent for the weapon is clearly for according to the weapon’s stats. Advocating that it gets attack speed and work with Thunderous Strike goes against that.
Rather than trying to fit a square peg into a circular hole so-to-speak, why not discuss ways to buff the weapon for cooldown-based Primal Strike if it is lacking?