Deliverance rant

[Mendalas]

There's no real sense in waiting I think, I just use Unchained to boost the damage/enmity of my initial OPs while I start rolling offensive CDs + Bloodbath and then go into Deliverance. If Unchained isn't available I eat the penalty, but it also lets me sit on my 5 Abandon stacks for a bit for the crit bonus. I suppose I would wait a bit longer on Unchained if my healer didn't feel comfortable with me swapping that early, but Defiance doesn't really do anything if my healer isn't healing me and the healer I run with is usually too busy DPSing to be doing that. :P

Unchained nullifies the damage penalty of defiance. So you are essentially doing damage as if you didn't have defiance on. The only thing you would miss is the crit bonus from abandon stacks and a little bit more potency on deliverance abilities as compared to defiance abilities while benefiting from your tank stance healing/health bonus. But I would say using unchained for only 5 seconds of the 20 is not worth blowing your 5 stacks for. Save it for an extra decimate if you are gonna switch to deliverance that soon anyways. Just my opinion though and maybe other warrior mains can chime in on that (healer main here).