I was overjoyed to see the change to SW:Death the day after the patch, for the simple fact that prior to 4.0.1, I -never used it-. The damage was just too weak to work it into my rotation.

This isn't to say that I think it should've stayed un-nerfed. It was obviously too high immediately after patch. But now, it's nerfed back into uselessness. Single mobs are usually dead within a second or two after hitting 20%, and the damage is pathetic above 20%. On bosses, I still fling it as much as possible - under 20%. So, the net result is I've gone from a spell that I never used through Wrath, to a spell I'll -maybe- use 4-8 times per raid boss. It's progress, I guess, but given how much the devs were clearly trying to push this back into some semblance of a regular rotation, it's rather sad.

Why has it been so hard to turn this into a workable spell? Just off the top of my head, having it apply a debuff stack similar to Arcane Blast, increasing damage done to the mob and to you, would seem to be a perfectly workable solution. Or have it do a fixed amount of damage, but an amount of feedback inversely scaled to the percentage of health the mob has left. Spam it on regular mobs at 100-50%, and you'll fry a quarter of your health in one shot. (Oh, and though I may be in a minority for this, I'd be perfectly happy to swap our 'reduce feedback by x%' talents to gain a workable nuke.)

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