Having played Frost mage for a short period of time and seeing certain specs just STRUGGLE in SS I feel these Specs have reached a point they need help
Enhance Shaman: Good damage if not lottery style of burst but completely helpless vs casters. Can die even if they burrow from Dots think Ray of Frost. No way of touching a good caster. Seems to make most players sour and poor sports and breaks egos.
Arms Warrior: Great damage profile but limited rotation. 80% of Arms warriors seem to be stuck on Leap-Stun target- use all cooldowns including Defenses to kill someone. If that fails, they die. It’s akin to a sex partner who only lasts 1 min (satisfying for no one)
Death Nights Frost and Unholy: These specs scare no one. Predictable damage and easy to get away.
-honorable mention: Clueless evokers and ferals who only “try” to spam cyclone and the wannabe AWC copy cat Boomie who die fake casting
enhancement could probably use some form of modern mobility
you don’t really even need it with how much of your damage is ranged
BUT when you end up in a scenario where it’s a triple bad wizard player lobby & the wizard on your team each round doesn’t realize they have to push in to support you instead of S keying away just to lose it’s rough
the burst isn’t really rng
wolves will basically always expose primwave giving you tons of room/time to counterplay it if the shaman isn’t playing a heavy lockdown comp like with a rogue or demo
hothand procs are rng but i don’t really think that’s what you’re experiencing
i think you’re just confused and don’t know how the spec works enough to identify the consistent/obvious tells
arms warriors biggest issue is that it has no real finishing power
they absolutely destroyed both warbreaker and avatar leaving warrior to be this consistent damage bot that has almost no influence over the outcome of the game offensively
they really should just buff warbreaker to at least match essence break
the design philosophy of “taking damage out of cds and applying it to sustained” is complete garbage when it’s inconsistent spec to spec
this is an insane post
i think this post is really just exposing how easy it is to play frost mage into melee specs
you should basically never lose a single game to a non hunter spec and it shows by how your opinions formed
A good mage? Most of the casters aren’t that difficult to stay on. Would take an all caster group vs an all melee group on my sham. But yes, burrow is .
Ok correct me if this doesn’t apply to arena (I sincerely doubt it though) dog color is a significant amount of variance in damage
Like an enhance with hot hands and 2-3 fire dogs will absolutely suplex, fold, throw from the top of hell in a cell, and plow an enhance that low rolled all ice dogs
and high rolling nature dogs makes the pwaved bolt kinda massive no?
yes ik im just saying the 15 seconds of high temperature hands and mac n cheese dogs is infinitely more damage than normal hands and a legion of snowy dogs
For sure. It’s just not roflcopterlightningboltsandwoofs kinda damage. I just don’t think it’s worthy of calling it lottery style, but it’s all opinion.
pve brain because of mob scaling and pvp modifiers
all 3 wolves buff elemental blast so at a baseline you’re always going to have that power consistently and that’s generally the most meaningful
lightning being the most upfront single target damage, frost being the most consistent increase in damage, and fire having the most potential overall doesn’t really make it a “casino” spec the way ascendance proc did
you will always have to pair feral spirits with primwave to benefit from the tier bonus and both are on global so if you see an enhancement shaman press 3 modifiers before doing damage and you’re surprised by the damage you’re not only a moron but you also don’t have eyeballs
15 second hothand LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO imagine
into pets you might get 4 lashes in a hothand window and the 2,3,4th lashes will all do dramatically less damage than the first because ashen doesnt have time to stack
in pve you probably have 200% haste and 8 mobs so you’re likely getting lash every global for it’s entire duration with 8 fs ticks (ashen catalyst) on each global
i’ve never had a hothand lash even ashen capped hit as hard as a frostshock with the same amount of modifiers
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I feel attacked 