As a long term werewolf player, before live I am once again asking for werewolf to once-again to be excluded from Signet mythic for obvious reasons (an ult that doesn't consume ult in a normal fashion... guaranteed/high chance status effects in kit... still having an ult ~rampage~ that doesn't consume ult…feral guardian was impacted for less of a toxic interaction than this)... It's inflating parses on either end far above other classes due to the minor/major buffs and how it interacts with this mythic.

Additionally, the bleed in PvP feels inappropriately, non-thematic to me. A 1 second bleed has more semblance to a direct damage 'hit' than it does an actual bleed. When I imagine a werewolf clawing at someone and causing them to bleed, I imagine that bleeding to occur over a period of time rather than a 'one and done' effect. That aside, with werewolf having a different light attack cadence, it's very easy to miss 'the optimal refresh window' and potentially need to wait until a 2nd light attack in the chain just to get your bleed tick (hence I had suggested re-increasing to 2 to 4 seconds).

I believe 3-4 seconds made this feel thematic in that my target is bleeding but also reinforcing they fact that I needed to continue to stay on target to be rewarded.

I also want to recoup some of my damage in PvP that we've lost (20-30% tooltip reductions across the board based on my control test here: https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/692088/werewolf-tooltips-pvp-significantly-nerfed-from-live-proof ~ for those that don't know... the visible disparity becomes worse as I put on more gear/specialized gear) so I am wanting to use Hircine's Rage... but at the same time a 12% increase in damage taken for 20 seconds is just so very severe it makes any defense I build nearly obsolete. Despite what was mentioned in the 'attached' thread to this summary, I do believe that Hircine's Rage would be an appropriate spot to healthily have 'minor resolve' (sourced very commonly out of kit) and make this more a bit more feasible in PvP especially.

(Quick reminder for all that Hircine's is the heal that scales terribly with weapon and spell damage already and not health)

The obligatory tags (I do appreciate any and all engagement with these even if it isn't necessarily the 'popular' opinion): @ZOS_JessicaFolsom @ZOS_Kevin

Thank you for addressing the visual bugs with the Werewolf model!

I appreciate the response regarding Malevolent Promise, but I still think there are better solutions that would allow its use in PvP. For instance, since the issue is with the Corpseburster interaction, why not disable Corpseburster in PvP or significantly decrease the set's damage while Battle-Spirit is active? Corpseburster is already a niche PvP set and it would be much better for Necros as a whole to lose only a single set compared to an entire mastery passive. There's many other viable PvP sets, yet only 5 mastery passives per class.

There's a major use case for Malevolent Promise in PvP outside of using Corpseburster. Necro has forever lacked a strong class "sticky" dot, and Malevolent Promise would allow the tether to finally be viable in PvP. The fast ticks, alternate cost, unique damage bonus, and regen/aoe damage make it a conceptually solid skill, but its static nature and small aoe radius unfortunately mean that it's nonviable in dynamic PvP environments. This is of course on top of also being able to get faster corpse generation for skills like Deaden Pain.

Necro's identity goes a lot further than corpse bursting, and many necro players also aren't interested in a Corpseburster playstyle. It seems rather unfair to give Necro one less mastery option than other classes in PvP purely because of one interaction that can be mitigated in other ways.

I also have to question why this passive is being added in the first place if the intention after playtesting was to disable it completely in PvP. If you don't want to restrict Corpseburster in any way, why add a passive that is removed in half the game's content? Corpseburster is already fairly viable in PvE without Malevolent Promise, whereas skills like siphon are otherwise completely nonviable in PvP. Why not add a proc dot or mastery passive that leans into alternate necro themes that could work in all modes of content?

Once again, I don't think pushing this back to the necro rework and/or telling players to just wait for the rework is appropriate here. The necro rework is the second to last and isn't coming for another 2 years. That's far too long to address an issue where an already struggling class gets access to one less passive than other classes (that are also being reworked earlier).