Just back from playing it on target dummy.
It doesn’t have ANY of the complexity it used to have. It’s easier than retail retri pala. Maybe even too easy!
Good things:
I LOVE voltaic blaze. It works exactly how i would like shocks to work. Moderate instant damage on moderate cooldown, no bulls.
Ascendance: Feels exactly like on live (very good) and you don’t have to press 3 more cooldowns with it. It also is awesome.
Bad things:
We have no control over tempest anymore. Also it feels impossible to cast 2 tempest in a row now. That could suck for pvp.
With wolves gone (i never liked spending gcd for it), we lost only “passive” maelstrom source. When we are kited, we have 4-5 globals to dish out some damage on retail. Not the case for beta.
Solution? Let maelstrom weapon to build up to 20 stacks (not kidding) and make voltaic blaze give you a tempest every 45 seconds! Would be an awesome addition of control. No burst other than ascendance atm.
At retail, enhance can “keep” a mini burst at bay. Please let us do this in midnight. If not, rotation will feel dull like a “story char’s abilities” very quickly.
I begged for this for years. It actually happened way deeper than i thought.
I’ll play more and post more.