After a whole season of just spamming lava burst, i hate it, i hate how it feking looks, i hate how it goes 10 times in a row without a overload proc, i hate it’s weak damage on impact, i hate pressing that button i despise the spell now with every fiber of my being i cannot wait to spec ANYTHING else other than to ever have to press it ever again, i despise the day it was added into this game holy actual hell just did 324 casts on a boss how is this fun how is 70% tied to one spell fun and we’re supposed to do it for another season ?
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Saw that enh had a one button rotation previous season and went ahead to give elemental one too.
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Absolutely agree. Dumbest spell in the kit. Only made dumber by its m+ variant.
Now they added it to SoD too and it works very similar. Flame shock and Lava Burst combo is the LAZIEST game design ever.
How to fix it? They just added 3% more overall damage to elemental. It’s almost insultingly lazy.m and it has been the same way for waaaaay too long.
They turned a spell that was supposed to break up LB spam rotations and decided, he, players like LB why not ONLY cast LB forever?
I mean, it has just been a hot potato for elemental and enhance this expansion.
In season 1, Elemental had to play fire build cause it was just the strongest, while enhance got to play Elementalist which is filled with rotational thought processes.
In season 2, Elemental got to play lightning build, which is a very hard playstyle with very small but very important mechanics. Enhance had to play storm because we didnt have enough maelstrom generation to play elementalist. Ironically, storm didnt even care about maelstrom yet produces the most amount of it.
In season 3, the roles reversed again.
elemental
They just need to figure out how to make the fire build interesting to play and the lightning build not incredibly complex to play.
enhancement
They just need to give Elementalist build actual mass AoE, and make storm fun and engaging to play.
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Just a correction for enhancement:
For the first 2 seasons storm and elementalists were both used depending on bosses, one of the 2 did not overshadow the other. Storm was used for ST/patchwreck fights, and elementalist was used for fights that had downtime and adds.
Only in season 3 elementalist overtake storm in ST and became the defacto talent build.
For elemental I do not know since I casually play once in a blue moon, but for enhance had to correct some misinformation.
so for ele the lightning build was complicated because you had to keep up a % buff. these things are exhausting and terrible.
if you just had to use CL, earth quake and use buffed frost shocks, that would be enough. we have a large enough utility kit to make the class engaging. keeping track of buffs is terrible.
similar things apply to enhance ele build. the tab target lava lash is major BS and kills thr whole fun for me, beside the gcd management to set up the super boring primordial wave crap.
i actually like the storm build with ascendance, not the S3 version, BUT the dmg is just terrible. on dummys i can do 400k no prob but in dungeons and ST is falls off a cliff because the rng and setup crap.
doom winds on cd feels bad, well the cd itself feels bad actually.
it is great that enhance has to builds that focus on different things, but it feels not good to play.
i mained enh since BC and DF is the first time i moved away from enhance. I HATE PRIMORDIAL WAVE gameplay if i wanted to play a gcd setup fiesta i would play unholy.
I did not have the opportunity to play shaman in S1 or S2, but S3 Elemental feels super awkward and one-two buttoney (Lava Burst and Earth Shock/Elemental Blast). Like, why does it even have 2 stacks if I never have to wait for it to cool down.
Instead of being an “OH YEAH!” moment, Lava Surge makes me think “will I ever be able to cast anything else?”. The Spell Alert effect just keeps blinking on the screen, it doesn’t feel like a real proc, its just always up.
I’m not seeing Elemental as what the name indicates; instead, it’s Volcanic Shaman, since both Nature and Frost spells are neglected/non-existent/awkward to use in current meta, and even if you want to use them, Lava Surge won’t let you.
Checking the new Farseer hero spec, I thought it was decent, maybe except the part where player agency and control over the ancestor spirit summoning lies in the hands of RNGesus with exception of the capstone talent… But it still doesn’t make the spec play well, because Elemental Shaman (and other Shaman specs, too) are overdue for a rework/overhaul - without it, no hero spec will make it feel good.
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