Ive recently gone back to enhance as my m+ character and boy is it a lot more fun than ele shaman the damage isnt that far behind either you can get some insane aoe burst with meme beam sundering crash
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It played kind of like that in cata and I really enjoyed the feeling of winding up to a big combo, and then just taking someone apart.
Yep enhancement feels like it had things and then every class grabbed and ripped them off of you and now youāre just a damage stick that does slightly less damage than everyone else but you have literally no survivability when every other class has the healing of a resto druid on top of defensive cooldowns that are very strong.
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Hey welcome to BFA and the past 3 expansion where the balance of talents are extremely bad and most talents are unviable even if they are extremely fun the are often and almost always beaten out by boring passive abilities.
Making talents be game changers was a good and horrible idea. Having them change the base rotationā¦man iām so conflicted over it.
What do you dislike about ascendance? Personally I think itās a good CD for enhance. I just wish it removed the stormstrike CD all together to avoid the partial GCD windows when you donāt chain stormbringer.
I think itās underwhelming, and could use some buffs, especially for a talent. 3 minute CD for 15 sec seems pretty lame compared to many similar DPS CDs. For example, Pally wings is 2 mins, lasts 20 secs, and gives you a guaranteed crit spender. Now add the right trait and essence, it lasts 25 seconds and the CD is 1.5 mins. When I pop wings, stuff gets blown up. Unholy Frenzy for my DK and S, E, & F for my Monk all feel more impactful than Ascendance (IMO).
I agree with you that the Stormstrike CD should be removed altogether for Ascendance, especially since itās a long CD. I wouldnāt mind a visual update as well.
Itās lack luster it just makes us ranged auto attackers.
Thereās literally zero fun factor or synergy with it.
Itās kind of like base fire elemental just slinging fire where as storm elemental buffs the players LB casts with haste. There has to be some more interaction at some point.
Itās not really about the ranged auto attacks. Itās about 30 yard range spammable stormstrikes that ignore armor which can be really powerful in pvp or when melee range is otherwise an issue due to mechanics, kiting, etc.
Iād rather see it buffed and/or made baseline rather than removed. Remove stormstrike CD or lower ascendance CD to 2 min or increase duration to 20 sec or somethingā¦
To me, the worst thing right now is the clunkiness of the partial GCDs between stormstrike CDs when you have a bunch of haste. Which is why I wish they would remove the stormstrike CD during ascendance.
he wants a doomwinds button back instead of ascendance.i have already had this talk with himā¦lol.
all ascendance needs is longer up time maybe 20-25 sec and shorter cd like 1.5m cd.
No, not a full replacement but doomwinds is fun and added another CD to use for enh. I wish there was something besides ascendance. Something interactive and fun.
You just have a giant crush on me I know because eyou follow me everywhere thanen.
I wouldnāt be too flattered. He merely has Google Alerts set for any time someone mentions āEnhancement Shamanā. He wouldnāt want to miss an opportunity to restate his complaints over, and over, and overā¦
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So lets compair Ascendance to the one almost everyone looks at Avenging Wrath. The visual is lack luster, what it dose is lack luster, and it should be base line not a talent.
It has been said Avenging Wrath is one of the most gorgeous spells made. And I find that to be true especially when compared to Avenging Wrath. Which by the way is on a 1.6 min cd And last for 25 seconds and thats if your not speced in to crusade which increases what wings dose.
While Ascendance is a talent and it has a 3 min cd and it has our auto attacks by pass armor and reduces Storm Strikes CD by 66%. Now if Ascendance did something like give us haste or a stat like wings.
Basiclly the whole enhancement shaman kit is crap and needs a major rework. And updated visuals. The Visual for wf is like almost nonexistent. You cant tell when its procing. You have the viusal for Crash Lighting that is just over whelming. I hate to say it but Sundering has a good visual. But Sundering should also be baseline.
I generally play as Ele on my shaman but some times Iāll get that old itch for enhancement. It was my main for WoD and Legion so it definitely has a special place in my heart. Unfortunately it does not have a special place in the meta 
Enh has poor survivability and an annoying feast or famine playstyle. For some reason Enh shaman class tweaks have been extremely slow or non-existent compared to other classes no matter what feedback we give.
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they are the same thing one is ranged and one isnt.
Theyāre co.pletely different. One is a WF on every swing cd, the other is a ranged auto attack cd.
Astral Shift to be used while stunned, and undo the healing nerfs. I will be satisfied with my Enh Shaman again in PvP.
The things i would do if my raid let me main enh
I decided it was time to learn enh since it was the only shaman spec I didnāt know how to play. Mostly because I suck at being melee, but I started learning and doing m+/raid. It actually is a blast to play, when it procs, it lights up like a christmas tree, itās awesome.
I canāt really talk about other classes because Iām not a man of playing alts, but every shaman spec is fun AF to play. Plus hurling lava and bringing the thunder is always pleasing to the eye.
Now onto that missing shaman tank specā¦ Iām looking at you Blizzard.
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