I know you're probably staring at that animated gladstance gif ( made by Archimtiros ) and getting pretty excited, but stay with me for a moment.
Right now the Alpha patch notes appear to have restricted many abilities to defensive stance only. A lot of the raid utility abilities that Fury/Arms get ( like rallying cry ) require you to stancedance to defensive stance prior to being able to cast your rally. The same sort of revision on abilities was seen on some of the Prot Only utility, like mocking banner, and spell reflection. Now, knowing that Gladiator's Resolve replaces defensive stance, raises the question:
Do we lose out on Prot Only utility when going Gladstance?
The answer is not perfectly clear.. yet.
But what I did manage to find out is that their intent is clear in that, you can expect abilities that work for Protection to work for Gladiator.
@Cyclonus_WOW Gladiator Stance is for DPS, but restricted from swapping, so will likely count as both Battle and Defensive.
— Celestalon (@Celestalon) July 4, 2014
Now obviously this doesn't give us the clarity we'd like. But it's definitely a positive response. So if you're concerned, just give the dev's time, they will update patch notes, they will address these questions. In the meantime, did you see the new gladstance animation? It's just below in gif form.
Update 7/11/2014
We've been given the clarity we requested as seen below, I hope my lucky Beta Gladiator's are wrecking it in there. I plan to do a followup post on our new Talents once the iteration appears to slow down a little.
- Warrior Stances now once again have their own action bars.
- Attempting to use an ability that requires a different stance will now automatically switch to that stance.
- Hamstring now requires Battle Stance or Gladiator Stance.
- Intervene now requires Defensive Stance or Gladiator Stance.
- Mass Spell Reflection now requires Defensive Stance or Gladiator Stance.
- Mocking Banner now requires Defensive Stance or Gladiator Stance.
- Revenge now requires Defensive Stance or Gladiator Stance.
- Safeguard now requires Defensive Stance or Gladiator Stance.
- Shield Slam now requires Defensive stance or Gladiator Stance.
- Spell Reflection now requires Defensive Stance or Gladiator Stance.
- Taunt now requires Defensive Stance or Gladiator Stance.
- Thunder Clap now requires Defensive Stance or Gladiator Stance.
- Vigilance now requires Defensive Stance or Gladiator Stance.
- Cyc
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