Have been playing with an Ele main in M+ for the Seasontitle, and he is an exceptionally good ele player, always tinkering on his builds and how to min max and so on.
Now with the heavily set meta (in the top 0.1%) being fire mage, sp, aug, hpaly, bear you have no reason to pick an ele for a mage, even tho they do the same dmg in my runs overall.
Just having BL is not cutting it anymore, after ret got his cr and his aura, mages having AoE shields and defensive choices and so on, it feels like you have to bring a “group buff” like the raidbuffs, ret aura, mind soothe (or any other kind of exceptional utility) to compete.
Obviously the nerfs to his offheal (which was only very good in AoE anyway) puts him in a worse position, while not receiving any buffs lead to another power creep on his costs.
So please give ele (as the totemic master he in lore) something to empower the group with the power of the elements. Obviously skyfury as it is in PvP would be a bit broken, but it could be balanced like a 2min CD empowering crit dmg for like 10-20s (depending if you can reset it or not)
Just give him the option in the talent tree, for the love of god. I’d love to see a bigger variety in high level M+ above +25 instead of looking for classes and players who’s score are often inflated due to being “the meta pick”. Just as you got the holy trinity of DPS right now, make more of them like the full melee cleave with windfury or something cool with skyfury on crit heavy classes.
Thanks for reading!