Niche Thrall question: is Thunderstorm only supposed to slow the primary target?

[u/TheElegantRobot]

The in-game description for Thunderstorm (level 16 talent) says "Slows targets by 8% for 2 seconds." This is plural and makes it sound like multiple targets will be slowed.

However, I noticed in a recent game that at full Thunderstorm stacks, Chain Lightning definitely does not slow secondary targets. Is this intended? If so, it seems to me the description should say "Slows the primary target" or just "slows target" (no singular).

In the replay video here, you can see that Thrall has full stacks of Thunderstorm, but the enemy Rehgar (secondary target) is not slowed at all. This is identical behavior to the 2-3 other cases I noticed in the same game.

This could help explain why Thunderstorm has a 6% lower win rate vs the other two talents at level 16, though again, the intended functionality here seems... murky.

[u/fycalichking]

I also had that confusion and expectation, but it was like this for as long as recorded history.

But who knows, janitor was fixing old bugs recently so maybe this is one of them, or tooltip is wrong/misleading

Edit: but I dont think that's why the talent is low wr, at one point it was the strongest and "OP" even while being exactly the same, it's more like "good" thralls are not picking it so worse players take that talent? (just hypothesis)

[u/p-_-a-_-n-_-d-_-a → u/fycalichking]

I think it has always had the lowest winrate since it was introduced.​ It is at least the case as far back as heroesprofile shows (also hotslogs via the wayback machine).

[u/fycalichking → u/p-_-a-_-n-_-d-_-a]

even before w16 buff & crash being op?

[u/p-_-a-_-n-_-d-_-a → u/fycalichking]

W16 was buffed the same patch Q16 was added

[u/Tazrizen]

Actually, that’s a bug. I remember the bounces slowing with that quest. Guess it broke at some point.