all the way up to legion enhancement shamans were great and fun to play because of class fantasy in legion enhancement shaman lost one of their biggest class identities WINDFURY which is what the class and spec were known for.
sure it was a proc not consistent but its what made the class so much fun and why i loved to play it.in legion when enhance changed to maelstrom and windfury was changed to be a maelstrom generator and the spec lost its identity.
id like to see enhancement shamans class identity make a come back for the next expansion.
I remember back in the day people would fear the wind fury. Now we are a joke, I have had an identity crisis as to what class i want to play ever sense shaman got the axe/re-work.
Enhance needs some love!
Blizz if your reading this undo your madness at least bring turbo cleave back with enhance shaman being viable in 3s and rated BGs.
OH AND LASTLY WHERE IS SEARING TOTEM AND LAVA TOTEM!?!?!
enhancement shamans died in mop when they took away 2hd then have been gutting it ever since legion with class fantasy then bfa.
we lost windfury for maelstrom generation and healing wolves in legion.then in bfa we lost out off healing which was enhancements only way we could survive and now you can see it.
this is worse state i have seen this spec in ever.
at least you can re live classic wows 2hd enhancement shaman it is really fun.
I agree with this and I feel as if it’s because they keep implementing classes with dual wield. There are other factors, but this is the major problem. They’ve oversaturated the market and DWing identity becomes harder and harder to make unique.
I also think they feel like, if Shaman damage meters are OK then there isn’t a problem. Which I disagree with. We’re way too clunky and immobile.
dual wield isnt the problem we have had dual wield since tbc the issue is enhance is now based of off the ascendance cooldown which has a long 3m cd and only last for 15sec.
dual wield was good i enjoyed going back and forth dw and 2hd the issue is we lost 2hd and got gutted and windfury doing zero damage.
Thank you for posting this in both threads. Unfortunately it misses the point. The point isn’t did DW create problems. It says is DWing the problem. Because you know what wasn’t in BC? The 3 classes they’ve introduced with DW which, as I’ve said in the other OP you responded to - THE MARKET IS OVER SATURATED.
All of this is so true. Being on classic makes me remember what made me fall in love with Shaman. Windfury and shocks! Kiting with searing totem and shocks and then just run in and get a massive windfury proc is so satisfying!
a searing totem isnt going to do much in the current state of retail wow but they could buff windfury to do 8k hits each attack something decent like that and bring back shocks ect.
you’re a casual that does literally no content and have very little understanding on enhancement in any form of content
also everything you say is wrong
I was one of the top parsing enhancement shamans in cata and mop and neither xpac had windfury be significantly more impactful than now excluding visually
Thank you!! The spec just feels off the way things are set up. Windfury shouldn’t be used as a resource generator. I miss when it was beefy and had the animation. When you saw it go off and the damage that came with it, i remember it could chunk people in PvP.
Another thing is our theme. We’re no longer caster melee, we’re just reskinned warriors. Give us back our Searing and Magma totems, our Shock spells, weapon enchants. Baseline Lightning Shield, the old maelstrom system.
Our healing is terrible compared to what it was several expansions ago. We don’t have as many defensives as other melee, the self healing is what set us apart. I mean… It just feels like there’s so much missing from the class and fantasy wise it just isn’t how it should be. It already had one before the Legion rework. The class itself was unique, why change it?
i can see you have 0 rated pvp achievements
0 m+ achievements
0 parses or raid achievements past or present
why do you keep saying thats your least played toon, i can see ALL of your achievements on EVERY toon
i primarily pvp, which i have 3 glads as enhance
i raided with blood legion (US 1st) as enhance
i have most of the world fastest times for WoD cms as enhance
atm though, besides getting glad on shaman primarily play dk atm
active abilities need to do damage
windfury, hailstorm, flametongue buffs would be great
windfury atm with forceful winds and high haste can do nearly 15% of overall dam already though it’s massive
additionally, the crash lightning spirit wolf cleave legion trait would be really nice now
but overall rockbiter needs to be more impactful
stormstrike could use a small buff
lava lash could do a little more damage
imo overcharged is an interesting talent that should be buffed
