Elemental shaman is completely unplayable in PVP. With slow cast time, nerfed proc rate, and mediocre damage of hard-casted spells, elemental gets easily shut down by any class in world/instanced pvp. His toolkit would work maybe 5 expansions ago, but not in today’s era of micro cc’s and interrupts. I’m pretty sure this is the worst state ele has ever been.
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Blizz is trying to force people to play enh for PvP. It seems they even made some changes to ele shams even on level 60 classic realms to make enh more viable than ele when that never used to be the way. And PvP is now all about how much burst you can do right off the bat. No more arena matches that last so long that they end because they time out, instead they are over in a few seconds sometimes instead of 30+ minutes, or AV BG now can last a few minutes instead of a few hours. So yea it is all quick paced and Blizz doesn’t like ele being a cast spec so enh is the one to go to now.
This game is seriously geared towards instant gratification 100% of the time now. Its why when you go into a BG it is all the fights lasting a few seconds now while in Classic the PvP fights are actually fun until SoD came around, Blizz went out of their way to turn SoD into a one shot game in PvP now too to where most classes can one shot most other classes if they get the opener.
And thats why people complain about shams in SoD so much because yea a reckoning paladin can one shot any sham with ease on procs, but the problem is your never getting close enough to do so. as the sham will one shot you first due to their range.
WoW is a one shot, bursty macro game filled with nonstop annoying ccs that can be cast back to back to back so that way your DR doesn’t really even mean anything because you can get killed in less than a few seconds before your DR can even take full effect.
So Blizz figures you take too long to cast as ele, stuff gets hit faster with enh. My theory is because of Solo shuffle coming in and that version being based primarily on the massive damage output that you can do as fast as you can do it, rather than skill and so those SS vids on YT and other streams looked cooler when people were putting out massive numbers in the first few seconds instead of slow casting and a crit every once in a while.
I think slow and steady casting is a thing of the past unfortunately.
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God this whole post makes me miss Classic Fresh. I just want to level a Rogue again and enjoy some BGs and World PvP in Stranglethorn.
Sigh.
Btw, try Destro Lock. Feels like what you’re talking about, OP. Or at least it has the potential to make you feel like your slow casts are actually meaningful.
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FRESH WHEN
I think at Warcraft Direct we will get a Classic announcement, but I wouldn’t hold out hope for much. We currently have Era, Hardcore, SoD and Cataclysm running. That’s FOUR versions of Classic WoW simultaneously. I think they’re going to want to wind down SoD and Cata before they give us anything new.
Blizzard really should just open up a couple servers for each of the xpacs and leave them running, then put them on rotation of a 1yr and 8 month lifespan. I’m not sure how or why that isn’t baseline for World of Warcraft in 2024.
That would be ideal.
This is what people have been asking for since Day 1 in 2019:
A rotation of Classic, TBC and Wrath on an 18-monthx3 refresh with a free character transfer option to a PERMANENT version of each at any time.
That’s it. No one wanted Season of Mastery or Season of Discovery. No one wanted Cataclysm either, and we certainly don’t want MoP and WoD. A true Classic+ would be pretty cool, but there have long been doubts that the 5-person Classic team of interns could really manage it, and I think SoD has reinforced that suspicion.
So just give us Fresh Classic that transitions into TBC that transitions into Wrath and at the end of the 54 months we start again - with a permanent era, TBC and Wrath realm constantly available for people to character migrate to whenever they’re sick of the rotation. That’s it. Simple as.
But we’ll never get it because Blizzard is extraordinarily out of touch with what their own gamers want. The messy heirarchy of Blizzard, Activision and Microsoft is probably not helping, either.