Storm Skills are too weak

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I’m currently lvl 50 playing Druid, so far is fun start but skills trees look pretty much imbalanced.
The whole earth side is clearly too strong compared to storm side.
The only good usable Storm skills are basic skills.
On core skills earth Landslide is very strong with 100%crit plus crit dmg, while on storm we have tornado but the pattern is too random, and Lightning Storm which is weaker and too mana hungry.

I wanted to try a build with LS and Symbiotic aspect, which on nature’s fury passive proc lowers cooldowns on other side, but lightning storm is simply Unusable because it never procs during channeling.

So, yeah, if i want to do real dmg i’m forced to stay with Landslide, or go for Pulverize.
Also Hurricane on storm side, let’s compare it with Poison Creeper: my Poison Creeper active skill does 4000 dmg aoe over 6 seconds, while Hurricane is like 1500 dmg over 8 seconds… why such huge difference?
And what about Perfect Storm key passive? Storm skills that you cast grant 1 Spirit + dmg. Dmg is ok, but 1 spirit, is that a joke? Com’on.

Then Trample is very good skill, while Boulder on same category is the worst earth skill i never saw anybody use it.

So all around i have to stick with earth stuff (a part basic skills) or go on bear side with pulverize.
I haven’t tryed the wolf side yet, on paper i don’t like it much i think it needs lot of equip to work, but the storm side defenitively need some rework apart basic skills.

Finally what about Ultimates? Grizzly rage is Op, because kills extend duration and you can keep it up almost 100% time, while others are too situational with long cd.

But overall i like Blizzard policy of nerfing stuff, overwise if the game becomes to easy i’d get bored quickly, hopefully they’ll keep making balances, and make more type of builds viable.

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I’d like any blizz playtester to try a storm druid, in kor dragan, and an appropriate level… then explain to me how its supposed to be fun.

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IMO, the storm side needs more love.

All most uniques i see are shapeshifting abilties. Wish there was more stuff that interacted with other skills. Like apex that turns vine creeper into a storm spell as well – Electric vine creepers (eels), storm crows, etc etc. Pretty much, allow us to make companions ether or – Earth, storm, nature, etc.

A lot of the current storm skills feel pretty meh.
Tornado needs legendary to actually not miss (and can still miss with it)
wind shear is very slow and underwhelming to use compared to storm strike. And since it can miss, you lose on more regeneration so it makes your resource worse. it needs more love.

Tornado could have had better legendary alternatives.

  • Tornado pulls enemies in slowly.
  • Tornado releases crackling lighting around it, hitting enemies nearby for splash dmg.
  • Tornados can create hurricanes etc, just ideas.
    Wish the storm strike didn’t have a standing-still charge mechanic – its soo clunky to use and misses at timnes.

a lot of the storm stuff heavily requires apexes.

I am a storm druid, I do pretty good dmg but still missing one more core apex to be complete.

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Try Hurricane Overpowered then you will see who strong this skill is, its just you don’t use it right if you use it without Overpowered i agree its bad.