As i mentioned before. I didnt expect anything better.
From disappointment to disappointment…
Garbage updates for enhancement that address almost none of the issues.
Good night exceptional developers
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what a crap rework for enhancement. Key problem to much blote and to much situational utility. Fix we’ll remove nothing and add in more
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What are enhance’s issues even? The spec is really fun to play.
Enhance issue is that Totemic is dead, Storm AoE is unplayable and all because of our talent point crunch.
And we got no changes on the spec tree.
And devs said they were satisfied with Enhance state.
And devs said they took beta feedback into account, mixed it up with what they wanted and got to work.
- What we wanted f=500
- What they wanted u=0
→ Mix it together to get the formula for :
Enhance = F x U = 500 x 0 = 0
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The spec is ridiculously bloated. most classes have a 5-8 button core rotation with maybe extra cooldowns. at one point enhance was running 9-11. Storm strike hits like a wet noodle to the point where its only used as a filler in some builds. the animations are just terrible across the whole spec and frost shock being the main damage for the spec feels awful. ITS FROST SHOCK its a slow that no one cared about for years and now with simply two talents its a top damage contributor. With you having to juggle maelstrom and ice stike to boost it along side maining fire shock on multiple targets to make primordial wave hit more with lava lash which you have to fit in there somewhere and also keeping feral spirits uptime and windfury totem/ crash lightning up. You also have 3 different spenders one that hits like a triuckc but you can’t use it with primordial wave so you still need to use lightning bolt but only in that situation. also chain lightnign exists but you don’t use that over elemental blast or lightning bolt with PW buff. the point of my over the top rant is to try and signify how over the top the core game play of this spec has become. The strom build is way more over the top but atleast thats just juggling CD’s but its still full on when pushing m+ and trying to use utilitiy in between. Side note so much of our utility is situational and our defensive are none existant which doesn’t look to have changed
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I am tired of writing and reading of what are the issues of the spec and what the community wants to see. I dont get paid to fix this mess neither any of the rest of us. Its their product they are responsible if ppl get bored and dont renew their subs after a certain point.
I am just pleased that they are pleased with us being unpleased with the current state of them being pleased.
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Thanks for your answer, I dabbled in enhance a little bit and I found the rotation quite fun albeit more complex than most specs. I can imagine it’s hard to play in a high-stress environment and could use some pruning, however I disagree that the core fundamentals need to change, I think maelstrom weapon is cool and I like how meaty some of the spells feel.
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The rotation is easy and fast paced style as it should. The synergy especialy in pvp situations is bad.
there is nothing fun to play about it if you want to perform well.
those who say it is fun to play probably do 200k dps and only do m0 or something
it neither is a rotation nor a a fast paced playstyle.
once you fired of pmw lb and hot garbage procced, you are literally spaming 1 button while tapping around. meanwhile once yojr haste buff is over between ever lava lash you somehow have to fit in wolves (on gcd), crash lightning (on gcd), ice strike (on gcd), frost shock (on gcd) and ehatever spender you want to use, which is of course also on gcd.
at the same time you generate mor msw than you can spend, ignore the most iconic enhance spell forver and waste resources in order to press lava lash.
yaya much fun, very fast paced.
certainly one of the hardest specs to optimize dmg because of all random cd reductions, random resources and random proc while having to target rotate and even adding 1 more flame shock manually because our stupid talent cannot count till 5
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I don’t disagree. A fast paced garbage hahah
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I’m neither of those things and I found the playstyle fun, maybe I’m an anomaly
I dont get why its so hard for them to just give the people what they want lol. Elementalist is relatively fine the way it is but bring back windfury properly and make stormstrike feel like its actually doing something.
Would love if they made the physical windfury build 2 work for 2 hander and keep elementalist as dual weild
probably, there are not even many enhance shamans playing at all anymore in s4
so basically anyone that puts up with this spec and still play it for fun belongs to a very very small %.
many gave up, some still play it but dont like it (me), some play it and like it (you)
i am just bummed that storm build does like 300k dps less, which is a jokr of balance
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Its a chicken egg situation though. Does blizz not care about enhance because its not popular? Or is enhance unpopular because Blizz doesnt care about it…
I reckon if they brought back 2 hander enhance as a proper melee with a hard hitting windfury/stormstrike based build it would see a surge in popularity.
Right now enhance doesnt feel at all like a melee, it just feels like a caster that requires melee range. All the weakness of both caster and melee with the strengths of neither.
The 2H theme slow paced more methodical with WF would fit perfectly with the totemic stuff.
But no.
We are pleased as it is now its fine dont worry…
If the “this is fine” meme was a spec, its enhancement.
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I dont know what got me this morning and started whining about everything. But i am FINE seriously…
At first you dont get the joke for a milionth time but when you think about it alittle bit its funny messing with a whole spec for so many expansions…
the recent sv hunter rework should clarify your question.
sv was the least popular spec but they received a very decent rework.
enhance was never popular because it was like 95% of the time not anywhere neae the top. neither dmg wise and never defensive wise and it was also almost always really bad in pvp.
After all most people would choose a spec that is powerful even though it isnt super fun to play.
i mean everyone always complain about sv hunter but in sl s4 or something half dps suddenly were sv hunters because it was top dps.
fantasy wise i think many players would pick shaman similarly as people pick mage
They have perfect possibility to rework enhace to the ground and make people play twohanded enhance spec, idk why they dont even think abaut this, it could be soo fun🙂
at the moment I would take anything. Ive logged in to Beta to check it today and the enhance tree is objectivley worse no matter which way you look at it. They have remove 2 nodes of abilities that no one took and replaced windfury with flurry which we now need to talent in to if we want it. I’m not going to start saying we need fundamental changes to the class, i just want them to take it back to where it was pre dragonflight.
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