Hey guys, Will here
I was thinking of ways to improve the elemental tree and I came up with a few ideas.
Storm elemental:
back in shadowlands storm ele got some hard nerfs. the gust of wind stacks got reduced from 20 to 10 stacks, reducing the potential ramp of elemental by quite a bit. that hurt more than it appeared since elemental has always been consistent/ramping spec when you take away all the borrowed power. A REALLY easy way to greatly improve elemental right now would be to revert the nerf made to storm elemental and perhaps even increase the duration on the pet to make elemental have an actual real cooldown. Storm elemental, right now, feels more like a small passive you activate (even with primal elementalist) rather than a big cooldown you pop to pump big damage. It’s really just a lack-luster ability right now and a revert of the nerf would a long way to improve elemental.
Replace elemental equilibrium:
as a player that likes elemental for its consistent/ramping damage profile I find elemental equilibrium to be a weird talent. Especially when its on the lightning side of the tree, that focuses around consistent/ramping damage, spamming instead of bursting. That is exactly why I feel elemental equilibrium is completely misplaced and should honestly be removed. As a replacement I think the elemental tree should regain the old talent “unlimited power”. A stacking haste buff that increased with every overload. Not only would is synergize AMAZINGLY with the left side of the tree, but it would also fit in perfectly with the fire side and be in a position where there is easy access to it, no matter what side you’re pathing down. Especially for the lightning side I think this could be a HUGE improvement since the lightning side has been known to be exceptionally bad in ST. having the stacking haste would amplify the already existing synergy between “flash of lightning” and storm elemental and it would breathe some pace into the lightning build. So not only would it add a good bit of damage in both AoE and especially ST (which we all know is lacking quite a bit compared to other specs) but it would also amplify the synergy between flash of lightning and the entire left side of the tree.
Make elemental blast interact with storm elemental.
even if you dont give storm elemental its 20 stacks back, an easy way to improve the tree would be to make the gust of wind stacks reduce the cast time of elemental blast. Since the buffs that come with casting elemental blast are so impactful you are more or less forced to spec into it if you want to play a build on the left side of the tree. having yet another slow cast in the middle of your rotation makes the lightning side (especially) feel very slow and “clonky”. making elemental blast interact with gust of wind would be an easy to improve the ramp (despite being very weak) that comes with playing storm elemental.
Those are my thoughts. What do y’all think?
- Will