In season 1, there were a lot of class tuning every single week. Since enhancement shamans turnd out to be on of the best spec in the game, we were getting nerfs every single week.
Now, as we desperately need ANY buff, we do not exist in any class tuning posts. What is the reason of that?
There are also other specs that are very low but they at least have any alternatives so they can keep the role they enjoy:
BM hunt can switch to MM
outlaw rogue can switch to assa
We DO NOT have any alternatives if we want to play melee dps as shaman even if we are currently at the dead bottom.
The balance is worse and worse every expansion and they still add more classes/specs to the game, which is ridiculous. This expansion they even technically doubled the number of “specs” in the game giving everyone two hero specs to choose.
How is it possible that:
we have two hero specs and both of them are at the bottom
we are one month into the season, very last on every statistics and did not get a single buff?
Yeah better not use that logic, since other people can just say that “get good and just switch to ele”, even though its ranged we are still competing for the same dps spot.
Sorry but what? even now balance is way better than some of the previous expansions. We are in the bot 5 specs in raid and way better in m+, while you can go back and check even in SoD in SL when enh was 10% under the rest of the dps in raid, and I mean dead last by a big margin.
Balance is not perfect, but people got used to be competitive these last expansion and might have forgot how unplayable some specs can get.
Truth be told is that big balance changes come a bit later, on the 1,5-2 month mark when HoF closes. This happens because they do not want to nerf the specs that top guilds actually made an effort to gear and stack just for the raid.
After that happens they are way more open about nerfing and buffing specs, even upsetting the overall balance.
Another thing is the point about hero specs. While stormbringer actually is bad but not unplayable, that is not true for totemic, which does quite literally tank damage. I expect that we might not receive small buffs for now, because they are working on fixing the tier set for totemic.
Thats too late. Most the prog etc is done by then. And specs like enhance didnt get to enjoy the game if like prog raiding. Because they arnt getting taken in setups. Because resto and ele exist.
They should never have taken away WF Totem. Before, even if we were “bad”, we had at least WF totem to bring as unique Buff. Now there is no reason to take enhance. Ele has the same toolkit and does more dps. Resto has the same toolkit as well.
And Our current good Hero spec is already at the bottom. The worse of the 2 is actually nearing tank dmg.
How there was no buff at all done is absolutely beyond me and probably 90% of enhance players.
I mean, this is inevitable with how progress work.
For the few hardcore guilds that finish their progress in 2 months, they do not want to actually upset the balance, because they can really screw them over. For the rest of the playerbase that are not that hardcore, they make big balance tuning after that initial progress.
As for the WF totem, this does not make any sense. Resto and ele were in our place for several expansions now, and it is the first patch where actually elemental sees play in RWF raiding. I am maining enh but still am happy that they get their time in their sun, and it happens that some seasons enh will be pretty bad at the start (like others specs were before).
TBH totemic does not need tuning, it needs jesus with this tier set. I just hope that they actually come with a rework of that tier set that actually makes the spec viable. Buffing the existing one to be playable, will just make apparent how badly designed it currently is and players will just hate it.
For Strombringer, the set actually isnt that aweful. But 8 Stacks is too high. If it were a 6 again, we would be competative.
All the damage is in Asc. No Asc, wet noodle. Almost like Sub rogue. Even though we can still press every gcd.
In M+ this 2p is just pure degenerate cancer.
Stormbringer one is really good, although it would be better if there was a way to not be forced to “stop attack” in order to maximize it. As for the stacks if it was 6 it would be just too powerful as a tier set.
Generally I expect for stormbringer to be buffed a little bit, mainly in the ST department and for totemic tier set to be reworked, but I guess those are a bit bigger changes that the simple ones they are doing currently.
But hey spec that was already doing good got buff (bm).
Meanwhile Ele is doing only damage during ascendance or rng procs (its still doing good just annoying to play with that tier set), enh is mess in pve and pvp but this forum is only concerned about 2 handed enh and tank spec.