As per the title, I would like to understand the reason for this way of balancing the class, at the moment doing PVE at a decent level with the Elemental is practically impossible, in the last final encounters of the raid it is completely ignored due to the scarcity it covers and of ZERO use in carrying it, it’s more of a burden than anything else. In M+ it performs very badly compared to other classes, it has very low defenses to face high level dungeons and does not allow competitive play due to the little damage it does…
Do you play the game or continue to ignore this class? It doesn’t take long to understand that a class like this without utility and damage output is UNPLAYABLE if it stays like this! Do you want to wake up or what? We pay for this game every month and you haven’t been able to balance your classes for months?
This was damage tuning, so the problems that ele has are sadly not supposed to be fixed now.
Main one is the utility department, and being the only spec in the game with resto shamans on not bringing anything to a raid. This is the main thing keeping elemental back.
On the defensive part, they are holding hands with balance and hunters, for the worst specs at surviving. Sadly, blizzard also does not see this as enough of a problem to buff like 4-6 specs, and accepts that some are gonna be less tanky than others.
On the damage part, it doesn’t need a buff. While the damage profile is not great (having bad AoE after 5-6 targets), its ST is ok, and sustained cleave is REALLY GOOD.
So yeah, unfortunately the problems ele have are not fixed with damage tuning, but during spec/talent tree redesigns, where they can add the utility they need.
The ST is not OK, we are third last in the LOG in ST, we have no burst damage and this worsens recovery in a fight with interruptions given by the mechanics and the linearity of the DPS does not help, plus we are worse at exploiting any type of buff external given by other classes… In AoE today (because at least once we did the damage) we are one of the worst classes, both in raids where we don’t exploit the AoE burst well and in M+ we are mediocre.
Nowadays you can buff spenders and LVB damage, it would help a lot, then we can agree on redesigning the tree in general.
Please, let’s avoid saying random things because it seems quite evident to me where there is a total absence of balance.
we are currently stuck in the mud with out damage profile in both Raid and M+ we have 1-2 fights we do okay in vs the other class’s but the rest we are just bad
7/9 raid fights you check logs and its hard to find a single ele in the top 500 kinda tells you our class is underperforming in the dps requirements on top of having low dps we bring no real utility/buffs to the raid our windrush in 40% while druid roar is 60% like where is the balance there the only thing that a ele shaman could possible bring utility wise a different class also brings raid buff BR and a better speed increase
blizzard really need to do a sit down and either buff our damage profiles across the board or give us a unique raid buff that makes us desirable to bring to raids because at the moment what guild wants to take ele shamans if they want make any serious progress
Don’t worry they just buffed Feral+Ret in the upcoming blue post, both class’s that outperform ele on more boss’s in raid
not even sure if blizzard are just messing with people that play Ele at this point they need to sack whoever is in charge of ele development and get someone new for it as they failed ele’s so hard over and over its a joke at this point
