Energize your weapons with lightning and deliver a massive blow to your target, dealing a total of [(107.4% of Attack power)% + (107.4% of Attack power)%] Physical damage.
Lightning Bolt
Hurls a bolt of lightning at the target, dealing (70.4% of Spell power) Nature damage.
Lightning Shield
Surround yourself with a shield of lightning for 1 hour.
Melee attackers have a chance to suffer (3.6% of Attack power) Nature damage, and add a charge to your shield.
Chain Lightning
Hurls a lightning bolt at the enemy, dealing (34.5% of Spell power) Nature damage and then jumping to additional nearby enemies. Affects 3 total targets.
Notice anything off? Every other lightning based ability deals nature damage, but Stormstrike, where you’re apparently charging your freaking weapons with the power of lightning does physical. So you’re essentially just banging people over the head with regular maces.
Why is this?
With SS doing physical damage it’s only real balancing issue is armour, which is basically ignored these days.
If SS did nature damage they’d have to balance it around the fact that it would ignore armour and scale with Mastery: Enhanced Elements. They would also have to make Ascendance do something different than making SS temporarily nature based.
In short, it’s less work if they just leave it as it is. Until they get round to class/spec reworks again.
Would be nice to see it doing combined nature/physical damage, that makes the most sense.
Aye, I had a feeling it was a balancing issue. But in all honesty, enhancement has been bad for so long that it has become a meme. Would it really hurt to change it to nature damage, and maybe adjust the numbers a little. Alternatively it could provide a mixture of physical AND nature. This may be a little easier to balance as it won’t be ignoring all of the targets armour.
I just feel like my Stormstrikes are tickling people, when there’s ret pals out there with better defensives nearly clapping people in a single global. Life is unfair man.
true, but ss hits like a noodle even on clothies and windstrike is more like windfart.
you could just delete ascendence anyways, it is hardly worth a 3 min cd.
They actually had ss deal nature in the beta, but quickly reverted it because they are stupid
well this class was actually always pretty much neglected, but in bfa it is almost unplayable in pvp at least
Holy crap, thanks I needed a laugh today lmao. But yeah, I’m having more fun on my undergeared arms warrior than my geared enhancement shaman, which is saying something.
They need to fix this class yesterday.
It could be that you adapt the energy from lightning into the swing of your weapon, and such are able to hit harder because of the more energy. It is not the lightning itself that hits, it is still the weapon empowered with extra energy on the swing.
Have you ever seen what a golf club energized with lightning can do? I have, and the results are shocking. All puns aside, I’m serious. You won’t be able to touch that thing without sending one billion volts through your body. So no, there’s no way it’s just physical damage.
I believe it used to deal nature damage in some previous expansions. Yes, very vague, because I never seriously played shaman, but I’m Sure that im correct.
Anyway, would be awesome if it dealt part physical part nature damage. It’s a stormstrike! Enh should be all about mixing different types of damage - physical, nature, fire, frost.
Dammit there’s so much flexibility in what Blizz could’ve worked out for Enh, current state feels like such a waste of potential.
This isn’t actually a bad compromise. After all, you’re getting hit with sturdy weapons injected with lightning, and having ALL nature damage may be too strong.
