Nerf Shaman....for no actual reason

Enhancement

  • Stormstrike damage reduced to 100% weapon damage (was 150%), and cooldown increased to 8 seconds (was 6 seconds).
  • Mental Dexterity: Intellect to Attack Power conversion ratio reduced to 33/66/100% (was 50/100/150%).

Are you guys high? What are these changes. You just gutted the entire spec and gave us nothing to compensate…

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I’m getting hit for 600+ storm strike at lvl 31 this is a warranted change

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Are you not seeing what other classes are doing? This is not warranted.

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This is exactly what we needed, moves int and str to be about even, which means you’ll have even more AP so they needed to tone stormstrike down some, and on top of that we get to double proc windfury

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I don’t think I’ve seen anyone burst as high as Enh, except for maybe Ret.

Blizzard’s trying to shift Enh gearing more to Str/AP though, but I don’t see how this is going to help given there’s still not really any support outside of autos/SS for AP.

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All others should be brought down too. I don’t disagree there. Damage is out of control right now. I would hate to have another SOD situation

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Then you aren’t looking hard enough. Ice Lance is just one example of a spell that does more damage than stormstrike.

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Lance and CoC are a bit broken atm

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Nerf aggro reduction, I want to be able to triple WF crit on the first swing and rip aggro off the tank

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It has more set up, and while it hits hard, I haven’t seen it hit as hard as SS. I also play a Warrior, so I don’t really have anything remotely close.

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You’re actually delusional. Enh wasn’t even remotely close to the top…

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Other then the fact that they need to be nerfed more cause they are beyond broken PvP litearlly doing 90% player hp in a single attack

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eh, they don’t really balance for pvp

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Enh was and is extremely strong. They still will be and with more strength/AP the nerf won’t be that bad

You missed other parts of context around the shaman adjustments as of this week.

You now benefit from your totems if there is a conflicting weapon imbue (WF on weapon and now wf on totem each have their own proc effects).
You now also have proper integration of Maelstrom Weapon adjusting it’s proc rate based on the speed of weapon you have equipped too.

Overall it’s a positive shift even if it’s a minor ‘nerf’ at level 25, it’s a healthier overall change at max level.

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Meanwhile still mostly wanding on priest because it’s all I can do. Yea it sucks to be nerfed but other classes have it worse

and the biggest thing, it fits into shaman itemization at end game

Litterally just leveled to 25 to get stormstrike because the whole game play was auto attacking with a slight mix of a shock and a totem. For it be yet again lack luster.

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Oh no, your power spike is now levels 35-40.

How dare you have something to look forward to.

I didn’t “miss” it. I intentionally left it out because it does nothing. Lightning Bolt scaling is terrible without spell power, where is all the spell power? Int gear. It’s a MASSIVE nerf overall.

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