Are a net nerf overall, for a spec allready contending for last spot in every pvp bracket.
First of all, you destroyed the spec gameplaywise by changing Primordial Wave. The change has to be the single most massive nerf I had seen in recent WoW history, triggering a whole chain of other nerfs (no LvB - no maelstrom - no Earth Shocks).
And now with the overload nerf, you destroyed Stormbringer who relied on it, and no one was playing it anyway outside of bgs.
Primordial Wave is horrible. Ascendance is horrible now and Mountains will fall talent is barely a dps increase. Earth Shock is still nerfed in pvp even tho we lost our season 1 set bonus. The new set bonus spawns an elemental fo a whopping 3 seconds.
You centered the whole spec around overloads, nerfed them in pvp, so now the spec feels completely different in pve and pvp, despite having the same talent setup.
I refuse to believe this was tested by an actual human before being greenlit to go live.
The spec plays clunky, maelstrom generation is slow and yet again, the spec has no finishing potential.
It was really really strong in season 1, all you had to do wqs to nerf Lava Burst damage to bring it back in line or just change Deeply rooted elements so it doeant rng melt some1.
I started playing stormbringer in blitz this season and itās way more fun and staisfying. I think the overload nerfs does not hurt that much, we get bigger lightning bolts and tempests, itās just bacame less RNG but the end result feels the same if not better. The Farseer hero tree however feels worse now a bit (or i just used to the stormbringer build too much).
As is itās useless. But with Echo of the elementals + Primal Elementalist its not that bad especially on stormbringer (Stormfury pumps).
The new PW is indeed horrible. I donāt know why they think itās more simple now. On the enha spec itās hits hard, but as elemental its damage is a bad joke, but still mandatory coz of Splintered Elements. The maelstrom generation is absolute worse on both build.
I never liked this talent as is even before the ascendance nerf. Even before the overload nerf it was like 2-3% of the damage, there are better non-RNG talents (EE or Earthen Rage).
I left for good before, it was a mistake coming back. Some fancy YouTubers tell you how Blizzard is fixing long queues, balancing the game, and reducing the button bloat. Bro every class has a min of 6 buttons just to do dmg. Then you have mini stuns.
The skill here is to be like a piano player 30+ buttons and a tons of sh*t to memorize. Donāt forget 10 addons to track when someone is pressing his 30 buttons.
Oh yeah get that spell effects, DH flying spitting green fire everywhere, frozen orb in your face, bajillion pets running around, huge snowstorm from dk and more pets on horsesā¦ What are you even looking at, ignore it just look at addons and nameplates its more āfunā. Oh you need to click on the totem in the middle of all that?
Be a masochist if you want ā¦ Iām not, my sub ends in 1 week and Iām not even logging anymore
And shaman is horrible yea, but who cares? not me
itĀ“s not just desintegrate, u have to empower it aswell otherwise it does 0 dmg + the rng effect, its just a ele shaman with less support toolkit but more sustain dmg