Dear Blizzard devs,
I’ve played Elemental Shaman since HFC in WoD. We’ve always been the runt of the litter of ranged dps. Over the past decade our spec specifically has been the meme of the community as the ignored spec. We have taken our punches in this time. But this week marks the peak of poor behaviour towards elemental shaman.
I was very excited for the rework. You’ve not succeeded completely, we’re still missing the weaving that was so good in Legion/BfA (buff Master of the Elements, please). The changes to overloads and Ascendance have been cool. Unfortunately you tuned us too high. Unfortunately the community perception quickly got formed by some of the best M+ players’ clips online where every possible damage amp lined up and dps meters went on fire.
Okay we needed a nerf, but this is ridiculous. We’re looking at our characters being 10-19% weaker on reset in single target (numbers from HawkCorrigan, moderator in the Earthshrine shaman discord) in addition to roughly 16% on M+ packs and 9% in M+ boss damage. The changes are so severe that we will likely have to recraft and reupgrade much of our gear we got this week. This is not okay. You have had the entirety of PTR to make sure the changes went in smoothly. Even though you’ve missed this mark you could’ve just given us aura nerfs and tuned us gradually over a couple of resets until we were balanced again.
You have yet again made elemental the laughing stock of the community. There are already LFG groups that won’t take elemental shaman anymore because of our nerfs. We have lived in the shadow of other classes for a decade. Then we’re good for a week and you decide to decimate our class yet again? When will we be visited next? It’s not like there’s the same level of attention to our spec as to other more favoured specs. Honestly your behaviour makes it very difficult to enjoy this game. Either we are a broken spec that casts lightning bolt as its highest priority because you can’t be bothered to fix such a simple thing, or we get hammered to the ground because you release us with a bunch of uncooked interactions.
I’m pretty god damn mad at you.
Fix elemental.
Listen to us.
Thanks.