The problem with enhancement shaman is both in damage and survivability.
Damage
In PvE 395 ilvl enhancement damage is the same as 370 havoc demon hunter. Checked it multiple times. What needs to be done is to bring back talent Forceful Winds to it’s former glory: 100% increased damage per stack. Also windfury weapon should do nature damage so it can benefit from mastery.
When Hailstorm talent is selected, Frostbrand shouldn’t need any maelstrom to activate. If the cost of this ability was removed, we could enhance both our weapons while approaching the target because right now initiate rotation looks like this:
- Flametongue,
- Rockbiter,
- Frostbrand.
It should look like this:
- Flametongue
- Frostbrand
- Rockbiter (if maelstrom is needed).
So we need to fit in additional ability just to start do some damage.
AoE damage should be increased DRAMATICALLY. Enhancement doesn’t do almost any AoE damage. Crash Lightning direct damage and it’s AoE buff (which makes Stormstrike and Lava Lash do AoE damage) at 200% of the current state. Then both of these mechanics would do roughly 5k damage per target (right now it’s less than 2,5k).
Survivability
There was no reason to nerf Healing Surge (nerf was some time ago) i PvP situations. Healing Surge heals for approximately 30k at 395 ilvl in PvE and half of that in PvP.
So shaman got huge nerf. But today I fought with frost dk on bg. It was me (enh shaman) with frost mage versus one frost dk. We couldn’t kill him, seriously. Because of overpowered Death Strike that heals for 40% of all damage taken in the last 5 seconds. So if you burst on frost DK, he will barely feel it. And frost DK is a runic power generating machine so it can spam heal after heal and do damage while healing.
Enhancement can spam heal 4 times in a row because of mana. And I mean LAME heal. So why don’t you give both enhancement and elemental shaman something like DK has? 40% of all damage taken in the last 5 seconds with 10% of life healed at minimum and I guarantee you that no shaman will ever complain.
So to sum up: you nerf us unreasonably to the state where enhancement doesn’t exist both in PvE and PvP. Then you buff other classes and don’t look back.
So think about it, Blizzard. Enhancement shaman is truly marvelous spec both in fantasy and gameplay. What we need is solid focus and solid tuning up so we can exist everywhere like havoc demon hunter can exist everywhere.