Noone was expecting ele not to get nerfed, but the current math is at 10% ST nerf and 20% aoe nerf. This is absolutely massive and if you look at current log data after the nerfs it’s completely unreasonable.
a 10% single target nerf leaves us at the bottom of Sikran and Kyveza logs, were we very competitive but nowhere close to the top performing specs. It will leave us around middle on ovi’nax, the most important aoe fight in the raid.
So after the rework the positive changes are that elemental now feels like a proper spec to play and we don’t have a completely flat damage profile.
The negatives are we have become bottom barrel for single target and middle for AoE except on really huge packs during cooldowns (Which we should do really well on because we have a three minute cooldown now.) We are far worse off utility and defensive wise due to flash of lightning changes giving our defensive cooldowns an actual cooldown.
We are not massively overperforming on single target like for example enhance, we are not massively performing on ovi’nax like as we are on par with fury and assasination and lower than both DK specs. But out nerfs are by far the most massive of them all on both fronts.
Please don’t let this go through - I’m fine with nerfs but this is frankly insane.
It really does, and that is sad, i enjoy the new playstyle but if im pressing buttons and doing 0 dmg i wont feel good or rewarding. plus having to change around all my stats again is not great im already poor in the game as is.
If those nerfs put elemental in a lower place than before the rework, they are gonna revert some of them or buff elemental to reach that point.
When reworks are happening mid of the tier, blizz “wants” to balance so that spec rankings do not change. Meaning that if ele was middle of the pack, they will not let them be the top performing one. Same thing with dks, enh, and others.
They do that because they do not want to have guilds need to swap players/specs mid progression and invalidating all the gearing. The time that they are changing dps spec rankings are between the tiers, where anything goes and the best spec of the previous tier might become the worst.
the last addons especially BFA was a shame for Ele Shaman. Do any of you devs actually play Ele? Then give us a piece of cake and we’ll even be very happy to be taken along in high M+ keys and raids. It’s true that we’re a bit too strong right now, but what’s coming next makes us completely useless.
How can you treat players like this? One week good and the next week completely unusable?
If the changes go live like this, you’ll have one less subcription and I’ve been playing since Vanilla, just enough is enough.
@Blizzard, are you knowing what your’re doing? I think, the devs have no Knowledge of their job. Rework shaman, make him good, then broke him again. Blizzard make your job, you got enough money for this game. One example for this mess, frost dk was op, then they wanted to buff again, where they see that is absolutely mess what they do, then the pull back the changes… this is one example for the illness we are facing atm.
I was on the verge of buying a 12-month subscription, but I’m grateful I held off. I plan to unsubscribe and return for Season 2, hoping Blizzard will finally show Elemental Shamans the respect they deserve. It’s really disappointing, Blizzard.