Just a fun suggestion taking inspiration from Enhancement’s Lashing Flames mechanic.
When you earth shock a target with flame shock active the flames become “electrified” for X (maybe 3-5?) seconds. Electrified flame shock tick X% faster (thinking 50-75%?). In addition either make it so while electrified, flame shock is immune to dispel OR make it so if dispelled whilst electrified the dispeller takes SIGNIFICANTLY more damage and gets a mini CC or something. Basically in line with affli lock and spriest.
Idea is to add a little bit more ST damage which ele sorely lacks while also making so healers arent able to just spam dispel your flame shocks constantly without any thought or consideration.
No! its their job to find and fix all the complex/unfun things in shaman rotation. Not yours. There are tons of suggestions over the years which none was listened to.
They can 100% increase all damage done and make shamans meta in everything. I still wont be happy. Rotations are messy as hell and unfun.
Didn’t ele have dispel protection with the vulcanic thingy? Forgot the name
Like with UA the problem is always the tuning. They could make it hit so hard that nobody wants to dispel it because they would probably die.
Obviously an issue is that you have to spend a pvp talent point for it, which is crappy.
UA hits for like 5-600k or more, the spriest one horrifies them for 3 seconds. The volcanic surge one knocks them up in the air for like 2 secs and does 80-100k if your lucky.
For starters the knocking up the air part is totally inconsequential since almost everything is instant cast these days anyway or castable while moving.
The damage part genuinely feels like they just forgot to tune it as the expansion progressed, 100k might have made healers hesitant to spam dispel before but when folk have 1600k hp or more like they do these days… yeah its no wonder a good healer will absolutely spam dispel off CD against an ele.
Imo, if you don’t want to make it as impactful as spriest or affliction but still want to disincentivize thoughtless spam dispel without consequence as it should be then.
Rework it a bit even if they don’t go for the cool earth shock combo idea, make it so it does a bit more damage, not much more though, but that when its dispelled, it immediately resets the CD of flame shock for the shaman and the next flame shock cast will be under the effect of Surge of power (will apply to two targets if close enough when cast) and all Flame shocks tick 30-50% faster for the next 5 seconds or something.
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