Ele prepatch

What a hot dumpster fire, thats all.

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Feels pretty bad in PvP as most expected. Damage is “okay” aside from the fact we only have one way to apply Flame Shock and it lines up with healer dispel CD.

Defensives are awful though. We just run out so fast and our heals don’t do anything. I can talent into every single Healing Surge talent+Earth shield+Healing stream and its just trickle healing. Earth ele got nerfed (30 secs of 15% max hp instead of 1m+), lost Stone Bulwark and gained nothing, Lightning Lasso went to PvP talents so its way harder to take and our class tree is so restrictive I’m missing 6-7+ talents some of which I really need but just cant take.

Removing Stone bulwark and replacing it with nothing while also removing the DR from Primordial Bond was actually such a wild decision. I cant find any classes that lost major defensives like this. And our mobility did not get improved to counter less defensiveness either lol. Feels real bad.

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Hot garbage is an under statement. I usually adapt to changes if they are bad or a bit off but this? .. Yeah, no. I am done.

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Ele is consistently one of the worst specs in pre-patch, but this is poorly designed even by those standards.

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Ive never played a worse version of Ele. We do half the damage or everybody else and have our defensives gutted.

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I dont know if Apex and leveling is enough, dropping 25k dps when hero and ascendance are gone is unplayable imo

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What in the actual hell?! Chain lighting is only is only for 1 hero spec now??? That’s some BS! I don’t want chain heal either! Give me back chain lighting in Stormbringer and take chain heal away. My sham is so damn broken.

Genuinely thought Healing Surge was bugged. Taking a full mana bar and over 15 seconds of casting to get about 50% of a health bar is absurd. I genuinely do not understand how Blizz devs are allowed to be this incompetent and keep their jobs.

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Hybrids need to have good off healing, why are pure dps classes crapping on us in healing by just simply doing their damage rotation?

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