What's disappointed me most about RDM in 5.0

[Aethaeryn]

Well, numbers are changing with 5.0 anyway, but right now;

Break deals 50 potency, and I'm hitting a Lv1 dummy for around 1600.
Autoattacks are hitting for about 70.

So that's about 23 autoattacks to make up for the 50 potency difference? Probably doing this wrong, I just quickly checked on a dummy outside my house.

I can't be asked to work out how that would fit into the recast of Displacement/Engagement, but it does raise an interesting point. If the idea really is that the potency difference is down to autoattacks... Why not go all in on that? Give Engagement a buff or debuff that enhances your autoattacks for a short duration. That at least makes the ability conceptually interesting. You could even give it raid utility... Imagine if Engagement applied a debuff that increased the amount of damage from autoattacks a target takes... It's not Trick Attack levels of impactful, but at least it would be something...

I guess you'd always be using it instead of Displacement then though, but given it's designed already to be used instead of Displacement based on level design.... IDK, the whole skill is a mess IMHO. They need to go back to the drawing board with it... Of all the skills shown for 5.0, Engagement gives me the most "Shake it Off" vibes.

I mean, I agree with all of this. I'd personally rather they just remove the potency from displacement/corps-a-corps entirely and raise whatever spell potencies accordingly to compensate, but I think a lot of people probably like having a couple extra buttons to throw into RDM's already fairly simple rotation.